EP 255 - Hiring Roundup

Ellen Yin52min

Ellen Yin

00:00

You're listening to Cubicle to CEO, Episode 255. We're rounding up our eight best tips and guests insights on all things hiring. From pre hiring essentials to successful delegation to finding the right people to bring on your team. I'll introduce each soundbite with the name of the guest and the original episode number in case you want to go back and listen to the full interview. All referenced episodes will also be linked for you in the show notes below for easy access.

Ellen Yin

00:26

And welcome to Cubicle to CEO the podcast where we ask successful founders and CEOs the business questions you can't google. I'm your host, Ellen Yin. Every Monday go behind the business and a case study style interview with the leading entrepreneur who shares one specific growth strategy they've tested in their own business, exactly how they implemented it, and what the results and revenue were. You'll also hear financially transparent insights from my own journey bootstrapping our media company from a $300 freelance project into millions in revenue.

Ellen Yin

01:11

Tip number one is from Say Gabriel, Episode 93. Drowning in work but not sure which tasks should come off your plate first, or who to hire for support. Here's how to determine which tasks you should delegate when making your first hire.

Ellen Yin

01:25

I do want to ask, when you are making, let's say, your first hire. How did you know which items to delegate first? What was it the things that you really just didn't enjoy doing? And, and what advice would you give to people who are delegating for the first time to make sure that they can actually delegate with confidence knowing that the task will get done as well as they want it to be done?

Say Gabriel

01:51

Oh my gosh, okay. So that's an amazing question. And actually kind of like three or four questions. So feel free to reel me in if I go too, too far down rabbit holes there. But I'll be the first to say that this has been an ongoing process, like my first hire, you know, I can speak to how I made that decision, then. But the moral of the story is, that was not a good approach. Don't do that.

Say Gabriel

02:13

Because I made the mistake that so many people do, which is I kind of assumed on some level that like everyone was like me, I guess and that I really just had to like, figure out what I needed done, hire someone, and then they would kind of just be able to pick it up and go if they have the right qualifications. And the fact is, is that even speaking from an I don't want to scare anybody, but speaking from a perspective of multiple, six figures, and many years later, and having a really strong system, you know, we brought in possibly the best account manager I could ever have hoped to get about a year ago.

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