How I Tell if a Job Candidate is Actually Smart

0:00when you're hiring for smart people, how do you figure out if they're smart? >> Really good question. Um, I think the quality. So, a couple things. So, the the the quality of the questions that they ask. >> Let's go deep on each one. So, the quality of questions that they ask. Okay. What's a high quality question? >> So, if someone said, "Hey, I noticed that you guys have this media brand here and you have this advisory practice here. What's revenue retention around that? is there's another vehicle that you guys have considered that you know isn't in the pipeline right now. I'd be like wow that demonstrated they did a fair amount of research and they were able to take a complex thought between these two things and and ask me about it. So like that's a great question.

0:39Whereas if someone says like >> you know what's the five-year vision of the company? I don't see that as a bad question. Um I just see that it's like kind of a generic interview question someone might ask. And if that's not already answerable online, which you know the the the pros and cons of our situation, similar to you, is that a lot of my stuff is public. And so I expect somebody to come in with better than generic questions because I've already answered generic questions. Real quick, if you're a business owner and you are not growing as fast as you'd like, I'd like to give you a free gift. So my team and I put together the $100 million scaling roadmap, which is basically 200 hours of us looking over all the portfolio companies we've had and what stages of growth they went through and more importantly where they got stuck and how they got past it. And so we broke it into these 10 stages and we made this little kind of quiz thing where if you put in your business information, it'll tell you where you're at and the most important part for you, what to do for each of the business across product, marketing, sales, customer success, recruiting, IT, human resources, and finance. And so no matter what you're struggling with, someone else has already struggled with it and solved it. And so I'd like to give you this thing absolutely free. You can go to acquisition.com/roadmap, plug in your business information, and if you want us to actually help you deconrain the business and you're trying to scale, we'd love to help you out on the thank you page. You can just book a call with my team and we will look at the business, see if we can help, and if we can, we'll invite you out to Vegas and we'll do this in person live.