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Work Matters

by The Adler Group

Performance-based Hiring Podcast Series

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Episodes

  1. Work Matters – Creating an Extraordinary Candidate Experience Requires a Bar Raiser Program

    In order to hire extraordinary people, you need an extraordinary job and an extraordinary candidate experience (CX). Unfortunately, most companies think the CX starts when candidates apply for a job and ends when an offer is accepted. Lou Adler contends this is too narrow a time-frame since it’s...

  2. Work Matters – Hiring High Performing Sales Reps

    Hiring great sales people can be tricky. In this podcast Lou Adler and Bryan Johanson discuss the basis for hiring great sales people every time. It requires a healthy dose of skepticism, deep fact finding and most of all a true understanding of what what it takes to be successful in your…

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  3. Work Matters – The Power of the Exploratory Phone Screen Podcast

    In this podcast Bryan Johanson and Lou Adler go step-by-step through what he contends is a barometer for a company’s entire hiring process. Using this process you will only need to phone screen 10-12 people to interview 3-4 people in-person to wind-up with one great hire. Whenever these metrics…

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  4. Work Matters – Hiring for Performance Not Skills

    Hiring for Performance Not Skills Frequently hiring managers make the excuse that they don’t have enough time to spend with the recruiter to discuss a new job. Instead they want the job posted right away. In this podcast Lou Adler describes how this approach wastes more time than it saves and how...

  5. Work Matters – SMARTe Podcast 1.3

    How to Conduct a Pre-hire Performance Review being SMARTe In this podcast Lou Adler introduces the concept of using a pre-hire performance review to assess candidates. Lou contends that we hire strangers using different criteria than hiring acquaintances and that the subsequent performance of...

  6. Work Matters – MSA Question Podcast 1.2

    The Most Important Interview Question of All Time In this podcast Lou Adler introduces the most important interview question of all time. This is a summary of his post on LinkedIn that had over 1 million reads. Try to answer the question Lou poses in the podcast and you’ll immediately see why it…

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  7. Work Matters – Handling Compensation Podcast 1.1

    How to Determine a Candidate’s Internal Driver of Success In this podcast Lou Adler describes how to answer the common candidate question, “What’s the compensation.” Adler suggests a non-answer to understand what drives the person to excel. If your job matches this you need to pay the person...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Performance-based Hiring Podcast Series

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The Adler Group

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Performance-based Hiring Podcast Series

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