My Biggest Hiring Secret

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Okay, I have been in this predicament before.

I call the prospective applicant, we meet for coffee and he or she seems like a “good” person, so I offer them the position…

The first day on the job they seem like the perfect candidate and my head is high and my chest is out.

I have a new member to my TEAM.

The Force is with me. Day one is in the books.

Day three: I am wondering about quality, the experience does not seem to be the experience I had hoped for.

Day five: OH NO, I messed up again, but I can fix this…

“YOU ARE FIRED!”

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Great, I fixed it…

…but did I?

I feel terrible, I wasted all that time and a week of production from a “team member” as well as the rest of the crew trying to get them on board.

But lest we forget, the individual I let down that I hired…

It is natural for someone you are hiring to tell us how great they are and they can do almost everything.

Some will even tell you they, “walk on water,” remember: they need a job, we need a Team member – someone who is part of our TEAM.

Was I too quick to hire?

What did I do wrong?

Is there another way to go about the hiring process?

I recently implemented the 11 Interview Questions for Hiring an All-Star.

I started off informing my perspective team member that this will be like no other interview that he ever had.

The questions flowed…

He paused, he thought for a while and presented me with heartfelt answers.

I just let him answer and didn’t say a thing.

One of the 11 Interview Questions I asked was:

“What type of person do you have difficulty getting along with?”

J.C.: “I usually get along with everyone, but if I had to narrow it down, it’s negative people. I like to work with people that are positive and take pride in their work. Not everything we do every day is fun, but you have to take the good jobs and the bad tasks and make the best out of each.”

The interview took approximately 50 minutes, but, in my eyes, was the most informative interview I ever had with a potential team member.

The response from him a few hours later via text to me:

“Ron, thanks for your time today for my interview. I enjoyed both being interviewed by you and meeting you. I can not believe I shared so much, you didn’t have much time to talk.”

BOOM!

Is it time you changed your interview process?

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Welcome to the Team, Jim 😀

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About the Author

As many of you know, my journey has been one of grit, grace, and transformation. At 19, I was a high school dropout, single father, and struggling paint contractor in Michigan. I later moved to Florida, where I faced both personal and professional hardships. With nothing left to lose, I turned to prayer—and was blessed with a relentless hunger to learn. I devoured books, attended seminars, and discovered better ways to streamline and grow my business—even through the Great Recession (and yes, I did hit the wife lottery along the way!). In 2014, I published How To Double Your Business and later sold the painting business, launching a new chapter: coaching others to grow their businesses. For the past 10 years, I’ve dedicated myself to helping business owners scale through the DYB System, while also drawing from frameworks like EOS, Scaling Up, and The Four Disciplines of Execution. Yet something was still missing—something more adaptive, integrated, and complete. Then I found Pinnacle. After months of research and interviews with other Guides, I joined Pinnacle. Their tools and strategies have exceeded every expectation. Now, as a Pinnacle Business Guide, I help leadership teams implement a custom-tailored operating system that draws from the best in the industry—but flexes with your unique business. It’s a dynamic, proven approach to achieve clarity, momentum, and lasting growth. I’m no longer taking on any more 1:1 coaching clients… Instead, I now specialize in working with visionary business owners who are ready to get their leadership teams aligned—around a clear vision, a focused strategy, and an actionable execution plan. With the tools and process I now have as a Pinnacle Business Guide, I help turn alignment into momentum, and momentum into results. If your business is growing—but your leadership team isn’t fully rowing in the same direction—let’s talk.