EPISODE #901
Molly McGrath
Recruiting Right:
How to Kickstart Growth With Intuitive and Effective Hiring Processes
901 Molly McGrath: Recruiting Right
Why Most Job Ads Get It Wrong and Why Being Transparently Vulnerable Works Best
Recruiting is never easy. I have yet to meet an entrepreneur who hasn’t had a hard time finding the right talent at the right time to grow their business, and everyone has a horror story about making an expensive mistake with a bad hire.
So, what does it take to recruit the right way?
Turns out just about everyone focuses on the wrong things when they are writing a job advertisement, most interviews fail to fully elicit who is the right fit, and often new employees don’t work out because there is not a reliable onboarding process.
Molly McGrath is on a mission to help entrepreneurs and business owners get much better at recruiting, onboarding and building effective team cultures. Founder and CEO of Hiring & Empowering Solutions and author of Amazon’s top-#1 Best Seller, Fix My Boss: The Simple Plan to Cultivate Respect, Risk Courageous Conversations, and Increase the Bottom Line, Molly shares her meticulous recruiting strategies, from allowing yourself to be transparent and vulnerable, leaning into your intuition to ask insightful interview questions, and moving swiftly by setting salary expectations right at the beginning so avoid misalignment.
Most companies also fail their new employees at tremendous cost to the business because they have nonexistent or haphazard onboarding processes. Molly shares her structured, measurable “teach, show, do, go, grow” plan so team members are trained, engaged, and empowered to thrive in their roles.
🔑Key Takeaways🔑
🔄📈Move Fast: Focus on a speedy and transparent recruitment process because “time kills all deals”, so have an initial 10-minute conversation and learn what your potential recruit needs in salary to make a move right away.
✨🤎Focus on Culture and Values: Why job ads are more effective at finding the best and right people when they’re not just about job tasks, results and qualifications.
🔥 🧠 Leadership and Self-Awareness: Why it’s important to align hiring to strategic longer-term needs not just immediate pain points, and focus on understanding existing strengths and weaknesses on your team to focus resources where you need them most.
🤝 🎯 Effective Onboarding Processes: It’s not enough to hire. Make sure you have a structured, measurable, and engaging onboarding process with the “teach, show, do, go grow” model ensures readiness and growth.
💡 🚀 Innovative Job Ads: Why traditional job postings loaded with extensive qualifications can deter candidates, especially women, and how engaging and culture-reflective ads excite candidates and stand out from the competition.
More about Molly McGrath at hiringandempowering.com/about-management-consultants
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More about Molly at Hiring and Empowering
Molly McGrath is the Founder and CEO of Hiring & Empowering Solutions and the author of Amazon’s top-#1 Best Seller: ‘Fix My Boss: The Simple Plan to Cultivate Respect, Risk Courageous Conversations, and Increase the Bottom Line’. Molly has coached, consulted, and directed presidents and founders of national organizations and over 4,500 law firms in executive-level leadership, continuous improvement, and team empowerment initiatives to infiltrate new markets, leverage partner ecosystems, and produce profitability. Her podcast, ‘Hire and Empower,’ is recognized as a Top 10% National Podcast.
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