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#113 - John James - Nine Times Out of Ten
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Most firing decisions have nothing to do with performance.
In this episode of The Dataliction Podcast®, John Staub talks with John James, president and CEO of Flex Tech, the Texas staffing firm he built for the low-voltage and electrical trades. John has been in staffing since 1994, and he says that nine times out of ten, a leader thinking about letting someone go is looking at a core values problem wearing a performance costume. He explains why keeping a mismatched employee costs more than replacing one, what goes into an Ideal Candidate Profile before a role is ever posted, and the five things his team screens for that a résumé will not tell you. Then he describes shutting off about $4,500 a month in job board spend because he was fishing in the same pond as every competitor, and the four days with a spiral notebook that produced the plan he still runs on.
Chapters:
- 00:00 Four Days and a Spiral Notebook
- 00:28 Meet John James and Flex Tech
- 01:19 Firing Is Almost Never About Performance
- 02:39 Why Waiting Costs More
- 04:31 Core Values as the Real Filter
- 06:21 The Ideal Candidate Profile
- 07:47 Two Hires and What Changed Between Them
- 10:35 Losing a Job and Learning Empathy
- 13:42 Thirty Seconds After the Prayer
- 16:47 The Five Things
- 21:00 Stop Copying Your Competitors
- 22:40 Turning Off the Job Boards
- 27:16 The Sabbatical That Made the Plan
Connect with the host and guest:
- John Staub: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-staub/
- Travis Hall: https://www.linkedin.com/in/travis-m-hall/
- John James: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnjames2700/
- Flex Tech: https://flextechnow.com
- Dataliction: https://dataliction.com
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