Agency owners get emotionally attached to candidates and miss red flags. An independent person running hiring helps. The real move: hire people strong where you're weak, not people like you.
When I got out of the hiring process, we ended up getting much better people. As owners, we're so emotionally invested in our company. And because of that, we're so emotionally invested in the people that we hire. And sometimes we overlook red flags. So like, it's really, really helpful to have other people that are actually running the hiring process because they aren't going to see these people with your biased lenses. And they'll be able to evaluate these candidates more objectively than you. But more often than not, that agency owners that are involved in the hiring process are really just getting in their own way.
To do the job that needs done, usually it's somebody you need that's going to be high follow-through, high fact-finding, very disciplined, completely unlike you, right? Yeah, we want the opposite of us.
You know, you truly want somebody who's going to be— who's going to fix your weaknesses. You don't want somebody who's going to be the mirror of you because then they're actually just duplicating your weaknesses. This is
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