What if you knew the right questions to ask that would separate the good, from the great employees? Asking the right hiring questions when searching for employees can weed out ones who may not be the right fit for you or your business. But how do you know what questions to ask?

The hiring process shouldn't be a stressful situation that ultimately leaves you empty-handed a few months down the road. You are spending your time and resources trying to find those great employees who will help you grow and scale your business.

This week I am speaking from my many years of expertise and giving you the four hiring questions to ask that will separate the good from the great employees you are looking to hire. What would it mean to you and your business if you found the right employees from the start, rather than wasting time training those who aren't going to work out? If hiring the hiring process has left you frustrated or starting over multiple times, this episode will help you head in the right direction.

Biggest Takeaways:

4:16 Did you ask the right questions?

6:38 What would they do in a sticky situation?

8:47 The “drink test”

9:57 What does this job mean to you?

12:20 How long can they predict their current availability

14:55 How much do they need to make a month?

16:37 Free Avatar class

9:08 Jazz HR

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Imagine easily knowing how to find and hire the right candidates. If you are looking for help writing a killer job posting or even how to attract the right candidates, I have put together a three-part training series that helps you ask the right hiring questions and get the employees you are looking for. Head over to joinjumpconsulting.com to see if this is the answer you have been looking for.

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Transcript

This is episode 304 of Bella in Your Business.

Hi there, I'm Bella Vasta from Jump Consulting. You might know me from CBS, NBC, Fox, Huffington Post, Entrepreneur, or maybe you've seen me speak on stage or read my book The Four Dogs That Every Business Owner Needs. In any case, get ready because you're about to get your hashtag Bella Butt Kickin' in this next episode of Bella in Your Business.

So what do you say? Let's get ready and jump.

Welcome to another episode of Bella in Your Business. My name is Bella Vasta. And today, my gosh, we're going to continue on this train of hiring great employees because it's pretty tough, right? I think every single small business deals with this. It doesn't matter if you're in the pet sitting business or not. You could be in the housekeeping industry where I've just recently started to gain a lot of friends and followers.

But these are tried and true things that we're going to be talking about today—about basically how to separate your interview questions to get from the good people to the great people. And I'm really curious if you guys have any feedback or have found anything while you're interviewing that has been really great.

Now, before I get into this, I want to stress that asking the right questions is pivotal in finding someone. A lot of times people say, “I don’t want to hire,” or “I keep hiring bad people,” or “Nobody wants to work.”

And my first question is: what is your responsibility in that? Did you ask the right questions? Did you think ahead of time about the exact kind of person you're looking for and then pinpoint situational questions you needed to ask them?

The tricky part about this is you can’t just come out and ask a question because it’s kind of like—think about if you’re a lawyer—it’s like a leading question. People start to understand that there’s a “right” answer, and they’ll just give you lip service.

When you give more thought-provoking questions that don’t necessarily have a definite yes or no answer, it makes it a little bit more abstract and gets the person talking themselves up on a pedestal—or into a ...