#48, Hire with your Head: Secrets of Successful Recruiting w/ Lou Adler

Lou Adler has been shaking up the recruitment industry for over 40 years (though don’t remind him of that). Lou saw that the way companies traditionally hired people was broken and created the Performance-Based Hiring model. He even wrote a bestselling book about it - “Hire With Your Head: Using Performance-Based Hiring to Build Outstanding Diverse Teams”. His company, The Adler Group, has trained 40k managers and placed 1.5k execs for top companies like Disney and Paycom and is currently running a course on how to use Chat GPT for recruiting. On LinkedIn, Lou has nearly 1.4 million followers - so naturally I wanted to talk to him to find out all his secrets. In Episode 48 we talk about why hiring is broken, skills of successful recruiters, how to hire your core C-suite team as a founder, what is culture fit and how to use Chat GPT for hiring. We Discuss: 00:00 - Trailer 02:29 - Lou’s journey into recruitment 05:37 - The broken hiring process 10:55 - Chat GPT in recruiting 14:31 - Internal recruiters vs third party headhunters 17:52 - Skills of successful recruiters 24:41 - The TOP interview question 29:38 - Advice to Founders hiring their team 36:52  - Culture fit 41:15 - Lou’s biggest failure 44:24 - Future of recruitment 52:07 - How to be a better recruiter 57:04 - Growing to 1.3m LinkedIn Followers Lou Adler: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/louadler/ Website: https://www.louadlergroup.com/ TikTok: https://twitter.com/LouA Hiring with Chat GPT: https://bit.ly/3DLl7zI Buy the book: https://amzn.to/3X8XMz1 Follow me: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariahvo/ Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/mariahvo/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mhvorostovsky HVO Search: https://www.hvosearch.com LEAVE A REVIEW: If you’re listening on Apple Podcasts make sure to Follow, Rate, and leave a REVIEW.