254: Using Data-Driven Decisions to Make your Next Key Hire with guest expert Atta Tarki

Atta Tarki, author of Evidence-Based Recruiting: How to Build a Company of Star Performers Through Systematic and Repeatable Hiring Practices

Atta Tarki and Bill Ringle discuss evidence-based recruiting methods and practices for small business leaders.

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Interview Insights

Top 3 Takeaways from this Interview

It’s not about having the right strategy or the right operating model alone – you have to have the best talent onboard.
Employing a fresh approach to hiring can enable an organization to do things both better and differently to beat the competition.
You will find better candidates by recruiting individuals who derive satisfaction from other aspects of the work than the compensation alone.

Show Notes from this Episode

Atta describes how reading George Orwell’s perspectives on how an ideology (Communist Russia) intent on doing so much good, go so wrong. [1:32]
He described how extraordinary impact matters. [4:32]
Atta’s perspectives on recruiting high-stakes top executives [6:05]
What high-level poker players and well-hired executives have in common. [7:21]
Thoughts on forming an effective hiring committee, following the “money ball” approach to recruiting [8:49]
How to determine if a potential employee has a high ethical standard. [12:17]
Contrasting antiquated hiring methods vs. evidence-based hiring methods. [15:01]
Atta discussed traits of extraordinary candidates. [19:50]
He advises to hire missionaries not mercenaries. [20:54]
My Quest for the Best Lightning Round begins. [30:04]

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Expert Bio

Atta Tarki is the author of Evidence-Based Recruiting: How to Build a Company of Star Performers Through Systematic and Repeatable Hiring Practices (McGraw-Hill; February 7, 2020).

He is also CEO and Managing Director of ECA, a 120-person specialized executive search firm. He leads ECA’s Private Equity and Venture Capital practice, where he supports PE-owned, VC-owned and other high growth companies with filling C-level positions.

Prior to founding ECA, Atta spent six years as a management consultant at L.E.K. Consulting.