How to Find Great Employees

May 16, 2012 Posted by Max Simon

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Today we are taking about how to find great employees – how to get clear on what type of employee you need, how to write a job description and how to put them to work for you… so you can free yourself up to do whatever it is YOU DO BEST!

Because right now you are probably wasting too much doing things you’re not so good at – and draining your creative energy – when you have an amazing opportunity to find great employees do those things for you.

For me, it’s bookkeeping, administration work and technology. I really SUCK at this stuff! If I did all these things myself, I know that my entire business would move at a painfully slow rate.

Today we are taking about how to find great employees – how to get clear on what type of employee you need, how to write a job description and how to put them to work for you… so you can free yourself up to do whatever it is YOU DO BEST!

Because right now you are probably wasting too much doing things you’re not so good at – and draining your creative energy – when you have an amazing opportunity to find great employees do those things for you.

For me, it’s bookkeeping, administration work and technology. I really SUCK at these things! If I did all these things myself, I know that my entire business would move at a painfully slow rate.

I already know what you’re thinking…

“I can’t afford to hire a great employee right now!”

But you’re wrong…

For every job that you take on yourself (that someone else should be doing instead), you easily lose THOUSANDS of dollars in billable time. Plus you have to factor in the stress, the worry and the creativity drain this causes you.

Instead you can find a great employee – or even just a contract or freelance employee – to do the work you don’t want to do. And if you know how to find the RIGHT employees… they can do it faster (and probably much better).

All of a sudden things are getting DONE in your business, you are moving forward at a rapid pace… and the best part is that YOU are only doing the work you LOVE!

So watch the video below and discover the 3 steps to building your own team and finding great employees. I am even going to tell you how to write a killer job description so you can quickly attract the best candidates for you.

PLUS… I really want you to share your tips and secrets on how you find great employees. So leave your comments.

Don’t forget to like this video, share it with your friends through Twitter and Facebook… they will thank you!

What are some interesting or useful things that you have done to either find people on your team or recruit people? Leave Your Comments Below…

Transcript of this episode:
In today’s episode of The Big Vision Show, we’re talking about building your team.

Hi there, my name’s Max Simon. This show is all about you can free up your time to do more of what you love. I’m going to go on a little rant today. Get ready, I am going on a rant. There is way too many entrepreneurs that are trying to do everything in their business themselves, and it sucks. You want to know why? You suck at certain things in your business.

I suck at certain things in my business, like I’m not good at customer service. I’m not good at managing my books. I’m not good at e-mails. Heck, I’m not good at most of the things my business does. I can assure you, I can guarantee you, that if I was trying to do all these things in my business, this business would suck.

Here’s the way I want you to think about it. Let’s say for a moment that you charge $100.00 and hour for your time, and it might take you 10 hours to do that technology thing. That means you’re giving away $1000.00 of your billable time to do something that somebody else who’s good at it, who’s less expensive than you and probably loves that stuff could do like that. So, are you hearing me? Build your team.

Here are the three steps for how you can do it. Step one is get really clear on what it is that you really do, do best, and what it is you need that other people can do.

I’d suggest starting with your finances, like doing your books, like a personal assistant who can do your e-mails and scheduling, like a technology person who can set up your websites and do your e-mail stuff; those are the three specific ones that most people waste way too much of their time on.

Admin, technology, and doing their finances. Get clear on what it is that you should be doing, which is likely content, marketing, sales, partnerships, being the leader; and actually be willing to start finding and bringing people on who can do all the things that you suck at.

Step two is to write a great, killer job description. Write an ad that people are going to get excited about. If you’re just, like, “I’m looking for a personal assistant,” you’re going to get a bunch of people who are not that excited, not that qualified, and not that ready to join your team.

Once you have a great ad that sounds like it’s an exciting company and a cool place to work, and just a good job opportunity, also focus on giving them some hoops to jump through in order to come on board with you.

Filter people out. Give them some tasks. Give them some assignments. Even in the application process, you’re having them do some cool stuff. As an example, when I wanted a personal assistant, I made him submit a video showcasing their personality. Then I gave him a task about finding a vendor and seeing how they would actually do that job way before we even hired them.

That way, by they time they got to the end, it was actually really high-caliber people that were excited, that were passionate, and that demonstrated to us that they were actually ready to show up strong.

The third thing is to really, really let people do what they do best. It’s important to realize that it might take you a lot of time, and might stress you out to do technology. That’s why it takes longer and in your mind costs more; but if you’re just wiling to say, “This person can be great at technology, and I’m going to pay them $15.00, $20.00 an hour to actually do it.”

Not only can that be something that takes a huge headache off of my mind, but can be something where you can now free yourself up to go do what you do best. Not to mention that fact that you’re giving a job to somebody who probably would really need it.

So go build your team. I don’t care where you are, I don’t care how successful you are; I can assure you that if you’re doing everything, you are taking your own creative energy away from things that could be making you more money.

That brings me to the Big Vision question of the day, which is “What are some interesting or useful things that you’ve done to either find people on your team, or maybe recruit great people?”

Leave a comment below. Everybody in the tribe would love to hear your tips and secrets. And, if you like the show, hit the “Like” button. Go ahead, do it now. I’ll wait. Share it on Facebook, Tweet it – such a funny word, tweet it.

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