Dave Ramsey’s SECRET To Hiring

Dave Ramsey takes job candidates and their spouses to dinner, then lets his wife's gut feeling decide whether to hire. Every time he ignored her intuition, it cost him about $10,000. Over 35 years, he says this method has never steered him wrong.
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In the recruiting process, we would go to dinner with them and their spouse, and my wife would say, oh, I got a really good feeling about him. Okay, we're hiring that dude. Or, nah, it's something wrong. It's a bad feeling. And I don't even know what that is, but every time I go against it, it cost me ten grand. So I quit doing it. Correct me if I'm wrong. It sounds like if something feels off in that final interview, it doesn't matter how good they look on paper, where they went to school, where they worked before. They're not coming here. Nope. We had a young guy. He was like a little model. He was as sharp as Attack. It's like everything you'd want. We go to dinner with him and his wife. It's like Ken and Barbie woke up the next. I really feel dumb saying this, but I've got a bad feeling about this. I call the guy and I go, hey, we don't know what's happening. But I'll tell you what we're going to do. We're just going to push pause. We may want to revisit this in a couple of weeks. I didn't just run him off because I couldn't. She was, too. He called me back six days later in tears. He's like, I've never met any people like you people. Y' all are weird. And I went, yeah, that's true. We are. I'm sorry. And he's like, no. I mean, I don't know how this happened, but I got a job offer this morning for twice what you were offering me. And I'm like, see, you weren't supposed to come. Go, take that, dude. And he goes, yeah, but how did you. I said, I didn't. I didn't. I called Sharon, and she's like, how'd you. But it wasn't that he was a bad guy. It was God had something better for him than us. That kind of stuff has happened over 35 years. Enough that you go, yeah, this is a good idea.
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