How to Hire Good Employees (Without Getting It Wrong Again) | Ep. 109

How to hire good employees, why it keeps going wrong, and why it’s almost never the talent. Episode 109.

Dr Lewis Haydon on recruitment as marketing, what candidates are actually buying, and why the business won’t run without you until the hiring system does.

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You’re trying to scale, the hiring keeps failing, and you end up back in delivery doing the work yourself. The growth plan turns into a longer to-do list and the business starts to feel like a trap.

The problem usually isn’t that there’s no talent out there. It’s how you hire, how you pay, and how you lead once they’ve arrived.

Inside this episode: why “you can’t find good people” becomes a self-fulfilling belief · recruitment as marketing — your job ad is the bait and your business is the offer · fishing in the wrong pond, and why role, location and market beat wishful thinking · treating candidates as internal customers and building the funnel accordingly · what people are actually buying beyond salary — status, title, flexibility, the commute, the brand · the real cost of hiring wrong, from wasted ads to lost momentum to culture damage · defining what a genuine win looks like for the employee · the win-win-win triangle across employee, company and customer · why under-committing on pay and then blaming the person is the expensive mistake · and why building the system once is what finally gets you out of the weeds.

CHAPTERS (00:00) Why you can’t scale without good people (01:10) The belief that traps you (03:10) Proof it’s possible (06:10) Owner pressure vs employee pressure (09:10) Your job advert is the bait (12:00) Fishing in the right pond (15:00) Recruitment is marketing (18:30) What candidates actually buy (22:10) The real cost of hiring wrong (25:00) Retention and the five-star win (28:30) The win-win-win triangle (32:00) Pay properly, commit properly, lead properly (35:00) Build it once, multiply it forever

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