How to Hire? Headhunter's Masterclass - Part 2

Discover seven traits of top performers, including value of time, desire for impact, results orientation, focus, energy, intellectual curiosity, and conscientiousness, and learn what to evaluate in a 3.5-minute call.

Discover how top performers maximize time, measure success empirically, benchmark internally and globally, and time stamp results to outperform faster, while avoiding tangents in conversations.

Compare two approaches to time value: a time-centric, infrastructure-driven strategy—with goals, mastermind groups, and intellectual arbitrage—that maximizes working hours and return on investment, versus a casual, unstructured approach.

Identify top performers through their desire for impact, shown by leadership beyond academics—charities, student newspapers, sports captains—and their ability to drive nationwide initiatives, like the recycling program.

Explore how a candidate's desire for impact signals performance through leadership. Learn questions to assess impact and how candidates benchmark themselves against top performers who aim for global impact.

Assess a candidate's results orientation under pressure across different conditions. Evaluate focus, e-squared energy, proactivity, tenacity, intellectual curiosity, and conscientiousness to predict outcomes.

Explore how focus defines career success by examining top-paid CEOs and their focused paths, showing that long-term specialization drives leadership, high compensation, and sustained performance.

Evaluate focus in the assessment process by probing a candidate's identity, vision of who they want to become, what they will pursue, and why they target direct competitors.

Influence hiring by revealing a candidate's self-confidence and long-term goals. Evaluate their curriculum vitae to see how the focus shown aligns with the role.

Assess a candidate's energy and ability to energize a team, from quiet conviction to inspiring presence, using interview prompts and examples that reveal motivation and how they handle underperformance.

Learn how taking initiative and being proactive saves time and money by resolving issues quickly, going above and beyond, and proposing proactive policies and systems.

Cultivate tenacity and drive to excel in your team, learn from failures, push through misery, and hire candidates who never quit and deliver results.

Cultivate intellectual curiosity to differentiate top performers by asking data-driven questions, exploring industry trends and books, and emulating how the best in the field think and act.

Explore conscientiousness as a team-focused trait that values organization, responsibility, and going above and beyond for the group. Find interview prompts that reveal community involvement.

Identify the top seven traits to assess during a brief candidate interview and learn how to place applicants on a results continuum to improve hiring decisions.