Jacqueline ElliottLeadership Strategist | CEO, Mother, Wife, Legacy-Builder

You want people for their hearts 💕, not their qualifications... // JACQUELINE ELLIOTT #shorts

18 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube clip (Jacqueline Elliott) discussing hiring heuristics: instead of prioritizing past qualifications or a perfect interview, the speakers recommend testing candidates by candid questions that might dissuade them, observing how coachable they are, and assessing whether they 'have a heart' and care about people. The speaker emphasizes coachability and empathy as primary predictors of success, arguing that people with heart and willingness to be coached can be developed into excellent team members.

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When we screen people, most people screen for like, what did you do at your last job?
They're looking for the qualifying candidates, and they're looking for the person that basically interviews perfectly. I ask them questions that basically try to talk them out of working with us. And I tell them, what is it that. That you did at your last job that you don't like to see, how much they complain about it or whatever it is. And I tell them how hard it is to be a part of our team, how much we demand, almost basically talk them out of it. But I also look for how coachable are they, how much are they listening to what I'm telling them. Does this person really have a sh. Just by me looking at them, I can tell if they have a heart and they really care about people. So if they have a heart and if they're coachable, shit, we can work wonders with those people. And those are the people that we really want in our group.