Dwayne Kerrigan
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That is going to be the next generation.
And so if not for anything, our own self-preservation, whether it's from our competitors, whether it's from people in the marketplace, whether developing our people
to ensure that we can forge forward with this new evolution and or revolution of AI, I think this is going to play out in a significant way in the future.
Without further ado, we'll kind of get moving with this.
So last night I was doing a lot of thinking on creating some of this content.
What did I want to talk to you guys about?
But hiring and retaining A players, this is really the beginning, the process.
It's like if we're looking for an A player, what are some of the things that we need to consider
As we go through the search onboarding process, and the first thing to me was, I actually didn't have this as the first thing, but last night at about 12 midnight, I added it.
And it's really about having absolute clarity on the role that you're recruiting for.
I know for me, I have made a large amount of mistakes in really being crystal clear on exactly what it is that I'm looking for inside this role.
You know, what are the skill sets?
What's the culture?
What's the
Do I want them working remote, some remote, not remote?
And these are things that I've found in the past I've settled.
I've got this checklist of 10 things.
And then I find somebody that either I really like, I think would be a culture fit, would be a skill fit or whatever it looks like.
And then I start to modify my checklist or make exceptions in order for them to kind of fit
into the role so and then that also gets leveraged based on how difficult it is to actually find the person if you're looking to fill a role and the role's been open for three months let's face it we all get a little bit desperate or a little bit hinky on having an open spot and it puts a lot of pressure on the team and so we want to be able to resolve that for them and so i think it's really really really important to have absolute clarity on the role