023: Here's a Hiring Hack!

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We've been out of town for a while dealing with some family stuff, but we're back! Last time we talked, we were looking to hire a billing coordinator. Good news! We did it! Normally we use Indeed to hire because we like their tools, but we were getting frustrated with how SO MANY OF THEM WOULD LIE about their dental experience. It was crazy, we'd get all these people with retail experience at Macy's and Sleepy's and others with irrelevant experience. Frustrating, to say the least. So we took the advice of one of Ragini's friends: He puts a link in the job post that asks them a whole set of very specific questions with actual scenarios. This allows him to see how they would handle these situations. So we created a survey in Typeform. We asked candidates to calculate copays and write sample emails given a set of circumstances. This was a great way to not only gather specific information about the candidates, but also weed out the ones that were too lazy to carefully read our post. This saved us a tremendous amount of time. We received 215 applications in two days, but 209 were garbage. Only 6 filled out the survey and of those, we liked 3. We emailed those three and two replied. We did phone interviews and then working interviews and made our selection. I highly recommend doing this to make your job posts more effective and gather most of the information you need without any effort! Episode Show Notes: 00:12 - Catchup: we were in the process of hiring 00:19 - We HIRED someone! 00:27 - Hiring hack we learned 00:43 - Indeed.com allows you ask questions 00:58 - People tend to lie on questions 01:17 - Hundreds of applications with no relevant experience 01:36 - Waste of time to even look through them 01:46 - Ragini's friend shared a hiring tip 02:03 - Link to survey in job post 02:12 - Good for two reasons 02:27 - Automatically weeds people out 02:48 - We created an application with Typeform 03:03 - Asked candidates to calculate co-pays 03:20 - Extracted so much info without wasting time 03:33 - From 215 applicants - we whittled it down to 3! 04:24 - We'll use this for all hiring in the future 04:40 - Great way to bypass irrelevant candidates