How to Hire the Right People with Pre-Hire Assessments

Number 5, mission critical to hire good talent, is having a pre-hire assessment process. Because as entrepreneurs, we're busy, we got a problem, if we're looking to hire for a position, we got a problem we need solved quickly. What we found is having pre-hire assessments can massively change the game and how effective you are at getting the right people in the right seats within your organization. My favorite pre-hire assessment is called a Kolbe assessment, and you can get it by going to wherewithal.com. And this is an assessment you have the applicant spend 15 minutes to take their Kolbe assessment. And what we found is most agency owners, myself included, are high quick start, low follow-through. High quick start means we get a new idea, we're excited about it, and we're like, hey, let's go. And we like hit the ground running, But a week later, two weeks later, our follow-through is so low that we haven't gotten it done. And what we need to do is hire people that can counterbalance that within your organization. You wanna hire high-follow-through people in pretty much every role within your business. Quick start people tend to be very charismatic, speak well, but in a lot of cases, they aren't the ones that are gonna do the job day in and day out and be consistent and be steady. If you're paying them fairly, you give them a clear opportunity, they'll stick with you. They'll do the work. So while, you know, all of this stuff's important, high follow-through for me is the mission-critical element that we're looking for in hiring. And you want to counterbalance yourself, but for the most part, you're looking for high follow-through on a Kolbe assessment.