John JonasOwner, OnlineJobs.ph · Scale Your Business with Filipino VAs

What happens when you make mistakes during hiring #ytshorts

15 Jun 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube clip by John Jonas arguing that hiring mistakes are common (poorly written job posts, imprecise salaries) but usually not fatal: you will still get a mix of poor and excellent applicants and can often hire great people despite errors. The main practical claim is that attempting to hire (even imperfectly) is better than doing nothing.

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Here's what's actually likely to happen. You're going to post your job offer incorrectly. You're going to write the description poorly. You're going to offer an amount that's slightly too high or slightly too low, whatever, it doesn't really matter. You're going to post your job and you're going to get some applicants, and some of those applicants are going to suck, and some of them are going to be amazing. This is, again, this is just what's likely to happen. And you're going to find that a couple of those amazing people are like, wow, I can't believe this person is actually looking for my job. And a couple of them are going to be asking for a super high salary and a couple of them are going to be super duper reasonable. And you're going to start interviewing. You're going to figure out, wow, I really like this person and their salary is super reasonable and I want to hire you. And you've gotten to this point still with making a bunch of mistakes and you're still able to find an amazing person. That's what's most likely to happen. And that most likely situation is definitely better than doing nothing.