Rob Walling

They had it dialed.

And it was really impressive.

It was kind of the best execution I'd seen to hire folks.

And they happened to be hiring locally, but I think that part's irrelevant.

Realistically, they had a very structured way of finding new candidates with both outreach and inbound.

They had consistent evaluation criteria, clear decision-making criteria.

And to be honest, just seeing how that operated was enlightening for me.

And that helped me get even better at it, right?

And any of these shortcuts and lessons you can learn from other departments at a company you're working at can later help save you months, if not years.

So those are my 11 lessons.

And I want to underscore this thought of you should be deliberate about extracting lessons or learning lessons from the place that you work, right?

Your job is training you whether you realize it or not.

And the difference between learning a little and learning a lot is if you go out and seek it.

I don't think a lot of these would have happened by accident.

I would have gotten some training about being an engineer or about...

being an electrician.

But when I was working at the construction firm, for example, I would walk into other departments.

I knew, you know, folks in different roles, and I would ask how their job worked, right?

So I'd talk to accounts payable about purchase orders and invoices.

I didn't really understand how all that worked.