Chapter 15: How to hire your first employees

What to expect from this Notion document?

My hiring philosophy that will help you avoid bad hires and save you a ton of money and time
My custom ChatGPT prompt that helps me create challenging use cases that identify the best candidates
How to use AI to generate interview questions that will truly show your candidates’ potential and if they are the right fit for your team
Copy-paste templates, checklists, and frameworks for you to use when building an exceptional team

When you grow a company, if you want to scale - the #1 key success factor will be the quality of your team.

That’s why your #1 role as a CEO is to build a team of A-players.

In the past 6 years of building and growing lempire, I interviewed 1,700 people and hired over 200.

And along the way, I made tons of mistakes.

I’ve followed the “hire fast, fire fast” motto for a long time, and in my opinion, it was a mistake.

<aside> 💎 Hire slow and fire fast is the best approach.

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Hiring is not a rocket science, but there are many ways to determine whether or not someone is a great fit.

Before giving you all the keys to make a great hire let’s break down the cost of a bad hire.