Cameron HeroldFounder of the COO Alliance & Invest In Your Leaders Training

100 Interviews Doesn’t Mean You Know How to Hire

15 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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Cameron Herold challenges CEOs who think conducting 100 interviews makes them good at hiring. Most business leaders have never had formal interview training. He argues that poor hiring skills are a core reason companies struggle, and leaders need actual training, not just intuition.

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If you have ever done a job interview and interviewed to hire someone, I'd like you to stand up. I was talking to a CEO one day and I said, you know, have you ever had any training on interviewing? He goes, no, but I've interviewed 100 people. I said, maybe you've done it wrong every time. I want you to sit down only if you've had at least an hour's training, and this is not reading a book. How many of you been through some classroom training or solid training on On how to do proper job interviews, sit down if you've had at least an hour's training. Stay standing if you've not had an hour of training. The rest of you, this is the problem in your company, is all of you are hiring people without a fucking clue how to do it. But that's normal. Who here believes that business is difficult? You're the fucking reason. Maybe I shouldn't have sworn, but maybe you shouldn't be running a business without the skills.