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Stop Hiring the Person You Like. Start Hiring for What You Need.

If you don’t know what you really need, you’ll hire the person you like most.

I’ve read hundreds of small business job descriptions, and 95% make the same mistake: they’re more of a wishlist than a job description.

A typical one looks like this:

We want someone who can:

  • Manage the calendar

  • Write the newsletters

  • Run operations

  • Handle support

  • Think like a strategist

  • Execute like a machine

  • And work across four time zones

What’s the problem with that?

It mixes six completely different skill sets: administrative, creative, operational, technical, strategic, and customer-facing. That’s not a job. It’s a fantasy.

If someone like that existed, they’d already be running their own business, not applying to work for yours.

Here’s what to do instead:
1️⃣ Write down everything you wish this person would do.
2️⃣ Circle the three most critical things.
3️⃣ Build a role around those, not all seventeen.

Once you’ve found that person and developed a good rhythm, go back to your list, see what’s still open, and hire the next person.

Hiring isn’t about finding magic. It’s about making trade-offs and slowly building a team that can cover all the tasks you want to delegate.

Focus beats fantasy. Every time.

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