The "Test First" Hiring Method | Dan Martell

So the test versus hiring method is the idea that, you know, I got this from Seth Godin. In our conversation with Seth, we were talking about people and talent because we had just raised a bunch of capital and we're hiring. And he goes, yeah, I have a rule. I just, I can't work with you until I work with you. And I said, what does that mean? And he was just like, he was ready to move on. I was like, I can't move on. What does that mean? And he essentially says, before I work with anybody, I do a project with them. And I'm like, I don't do that. And that was a big aha. And I said, tell me more. And he tells me about the whole process. So over the years, I've developed kind of a three part way of how I hire. And the first part is people have to submit a video answering questions that are very clear and they have to figure out how they upload the video to give me the video. And why do I do that? Well, first off, I wanna make sure they can read the instructions. And they can shoot a video and talk to a camera, which is really important from a communication point of view. We're doing distributed teams. I don't have time to teach you how to use Google Docs.