“I was making 100 cold calls a day trying to flog recruitment services rather than delivering it.”
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Said on Inside The Pipeline: B2B Sales and GTM
“We created this hiring process... we looked for relationship people... he’s been promoted, like, eight times.”
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created a hiring process where each job profile is reviewed by people from diverse backgrounds to identify the true success criteria (e.g., relationship skills) rather than default finance criteria
promoted the hire eight times
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“The only skill set I think that really applied from VC is I was at a fund where they made us do a ton of cold outreach on LinkedIn. I took that and applied that to recruiting, like, the right engineers and people for my team.”
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Said on How I Invest with David Weisburd
“He's talking about spending two, three hours a day on his hiring decision. The first call he makes is to the recruiter. The last call of the day he makes is to the recruiter.”
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Said on The CEO Signal
“I went into an assessment centre, was myself and relaxed, and got hired by a start-up recruitment agency.”
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