Author Brian Mohr On Hiring With Purpose, Vulnerability, & Music - The ROI Online Podcast Ep. 33

How can you make sure you hire the right person for every job? On this episode of the ROI Online Podcast, author and senior-level recruitment expert Brian Mohr shares the key to hiring with purpose.

In 2011, Brian Mohr was the Senior Director of Talent Strategy at P.F. Changs and Pei Wei Asian Diner.

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His job was to make sure any senior-level positions were filled with the best person for the job. As part of his responsibilities, he worked with executive search services, locating individuals who fit the job description best based on what they looked like on paper. 

He found the experience to be very transactional. It didn’t consider whether the applicant’s values or personality aligned with the company’s, which is often even more important in the long run. So Brian left the company and started his own executive search firm with co-founder Max Hansen, Y Scouts, to fill that missing piece of the recruitment process. He and Max Hansen wrote a book, Hiring with Purpose, to share their human approach to hiring.

Culture is something that many, many business owners struggle with. Brian notes that your culture is extremely dependent on the people you hire. if you manage to craft the culture you’ve always wanted, a single bad employee can corrupt the culture. This puts a lot of stress on entrepreneurs when a job becomes vacant. They feel overwhelmed and worry that they’ll hire the wrong person and lose what makes their business so unique in the first place.

To avoid this, Brian suggests hiring with a proactive mindset, creating a planning process so you’re prepared when a job opens up, speak to stakeholders to see the kinds of people you should be hiring, and research candidates well before their first interview.

Although he is skilled in the world of senior-level recruitment, Brian’s original dream was to be a musician. When that didn’t happen, he started to reflect on his life. He joined an EO forum and made good friends by being vulnerable and showing the good, bad, and the ugly to a group of strangers. 

Brian began to see the importance of vulnerability in and out of the office. Psychological safety is the biggest part of an individual’s success at work. You have to have a place where you can share raw, real emotion with people you trust.

Today, Brian’s focused on finding ways to bring entrepreneurs together using music, story, and human connection. 

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