My guest this week is Kathryn Minshew, the co-founder and CEO of the Muse, and the co-author of The New Rules for Work: the Modern Playbook for Navigating Your Career. I’ve learned in business is that the quality of people and the culture they create dictate outcomes. Having made plenty of mistakes hiring, and having had many enormous successes, I am always interested in best practices for finding and successfully recruiting the right people.
Given that Kathryn runs a jobs marketplace and has written a book on the topic, she is the perfect person to explore some the core concepts around pairing people with the right positions. We discuss how companies should market to prospective employees, how employees should represent themselves to employers, and the most common mistakes she sees across the hiring landscape.
Please enjoy our conversation.
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Show Notes
1:31 - (First Question) Largest changes in the nature of work and how people approach finding the right job for them
3:27 – Can this work be jammed into a formula
5:18 – What strategies is she sharing with employers when it comes to hiring
8:31 – How long should the process take
9:33 – Biggest mistakes employers make in this process
10:39 – Besides the usual stuff, what can perspective employees do to bolster their chances
12:50 – How much more efficient will matching technology get in the years to come
16:00 – What will be the largest changes to work itself
19:09 – Will we move away from full time work into parsels of work units
20:50 – Most successful piece of content or content strategy the Muse has employed
22:34 – Advice for early stage entrepreneurs
26:24 – Kindest thing anyone has done for Kathryn
Learn More
For more episodes go to InvestorFieldGuide.com/podcast.
Sign up for the book club, where you’ll get a full investor curriculum and then 3-4 suggestions every month at InvestorFieldGuide.com/bookclub
Follow Patrick on twitter at @patrick_oshag
