# interview
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45:59Round 11 — The CEO who interviews every candidateMeghan French-Dunbar: Leanne Al Elliott: So it's Lee. Lee. Okay, Lee. The CEO interviews every candidate And every new hire spends the first day with the founder. Now, there is a little bit of bracket— I put some parenthEP 324 · 4 Aug 2026·interview· 45:59–48:477:52Reframing your founder story: From shame to courageAl Elliott: So this Marjorie who we just invented a minute ago, she comes to you and goes, right, I was a freelance graphic designer. That's what I rebranded as. I want to go back, or I have to go back to work. It soundsEP 305 · 28 May 2026·interview· 7:52–10:025:27Interview begins: young Al, intelligence and family dynamicsLeanne Elliott: Yeah, without further ado, here is Al Elliott. Oh, so today is a little bit different. We, um, we've been around for a little bit, a little bit of a few episodes now, and we've been on the HubSpot PodcastEP 304 · 26 May 2026·other· 5:27–15:565:34Introducing Kristien Turner & Jeffrey FerminAl Elliott: Nice Leanne Elliott: And he's got a perspective on this that I think is really going to challenge how a lot of leaders think about employee engagement right now. We are also joined by Jeffrey Fermin. Regular EP LIVE-2026-04-03 · 3 Apr 2026·intro· 5:34–6:4917:07From competencies to questionsKate Young: So, next there's another stage. So, we've got the competencies. Then we make questions. And that's an equally critical part because you have to measure what matters, which is the right competencies or skills EP 287 · 26 Mar 2026·interview· 17:07–19:0220:39Everyone gets an interviewKate Young: They don't need to be shortlisted. So, there's a great strapline of my CEO's is, everyone gets an interview. So, you apply and you move straight through to the chat interview, and then the shortlisting happenEP 287 · 26 Mar 2026·interview· 20:39–22:0718:02Story 3 — Would you walk out of a messy interview?Leanne Elliott: Would you take the job if the recruiter ghosted you twice? Al Elliott: No. Well, no, hang on. So just explain what you mean by ghosting, just in case anyone doesn't know Leanne Elliott: Yeah, I must admitEP 284 · 17 Mar 2026·news roundup· 18:02–25:113:23Who is Tom LeNoble?Al Elliott: Nice. Check out hubspot.com, the agentic customer Tell me, Tom, who are you? What do you do and what might you be famous for? Tom LeNoble: I like to say I retired being retired to be inspired. I had this amazEP 281 · 5 Mar 2026·interview· 3:23–4:575:48The interview with a 19-year-old Mark ZuckerbergAl Elliott: I want to just go back to that. So you got the call from a recruiter about something which at that point, it wouldn't be the Facebook, it'd be Facebook, wouldn't it? Tom LeNoble: I think it was still the FaceEP 281 · 5 Mar 2026·interview· 5:48–9:039:36The interview hack: calling companies to schedule interviewsLeanne Elliott: Yeah. What have you seen this week, Al? Al Elliott: I've been on, on X, Twit, Twix, as would be my will. And there was a great repost for, or a great post by a guy called, whose handle is Rational Aussie.EP 246 · 5 Nov 2025·news roundup· 9:36–15:0711:20How Meghan Revolutionized Her Hiring ProcessMeghan French Dunbar: I always, I would come with my prepared questions, but I would usually say, you know, here's all the questions that I think I'm gonna ask you. And I'm a naturally curious human, and when you say somEP 229 · 4 Sept 2025·interview· 11:20–13:2325:47Hot Take: Why Wellbeing Leaders Have to Be Perfect (with Matt Smeed)Leanne Elliott: It is, it's such, it's such a good show. Of course, you'll hear all the stuff you want to hear about how to grow your business by using behavioural science in your marketing. But there's also just some reEP 212 · 8 Jul 2025·hot take· 25:47–39:4551:38Outro: What's coming up this ThursdayAl Elliott: Okay, well, coming up this Thursday, we have an amazing interview with a guy— I've teased it already— who's got millions and perhaps hundreds of millions of views across social media. He's an expert on manageEP 176 · 4 Mar 2025·intro· 51:38–53:0645:13A favourite guest — Zeynep TonAl Elliott: And you've had such a range of incredible guests on, on the podcast. Is there any favorite guest that you have?EP 162 · 14 Jan 2025·interview· 45:13–45:2043:51What We Should Have Asked but Didn'tLeanne Elliott: Is there anything I should have asked you, Nora, about this whole world that I haven't? Nora Burns: Oh, I mean, seriously, we— you and I in particular could talk about this for weeks. There's so many diffEP 161 · 9 Jan 2025·interview· 43:51–45:127:15Amanda's first interview — in a co-working kitchenLeanne Elliott: My interview with Paul was sat in a kitchen area of a co-working space of a building where he was, um, working from at that time. And I remember my first day I came in and it was like a 2-person office, aEP 127 · 12 Sept 2024·other· 7:15–9:139:28News Round-Up: Bad Bosses and How to Spot Them in an InterviewAl Elliott: But I was reading Fast Company magazine because I'm basically a boomer. I was reading Fast Company magazine, um, and there was a great article written by Tracy Bauer, or Brower. I'm not sure, Tracy, how you sEP 121 · 13 Aug 2024·news roundup· 9:28–14:403:53Meet Peter DorringtonLeanne Elliott: Let's go and meet Peter Dorrington Peter Dorrington: I'm the Chief Strategy Officer and co-founder of Anthrolytics, a new startup company. But my main area of expertise and what I'm known for is being theEP 98 · 16 May 2024·interview· 3:53–7:2220:32Burnout discussion recap with Jeremy ClineLeanne Elliott: Jeremy was an exceptional interviewer, and it was a really great conversation. His show is really great as well. He explores lots of different topics around mental health, around career transitions. So muEP 93 · 30 Apr 2024·news roundup· 20:32–22:2213:07Highlights from last week's episode with John SmithAl Elliott: Anyway, so that is the end of the news roundup. Last week we had the gracious and loquacious John Smith. By the way, I've just come up with that term and I'm enjoying it. That's what we're getting on a t-shirEP 92 · 23 Apr 2024·news roundup· 13:07–16:1017:15Workplace Surgery: The aggressive interviewerLeanne Elliott: And for me, as somebody who cares deeply about their time, I did the math on how many hours I was spending every year to actually just commute my physical body from home to And when I did that math, I staEP 84 · 26 Mar 2024·workplace surgery· 17:15–25:2978:20What it feels like to be at The WatercoolerAl Elliott: Yes. So this was not Watercooler. This was an interview we did before, uh, a guy called Oliver Yonchev. Um, Such a nice guy. You've probably heard of him because he was one half of Social Chain along with SteEP 37 · 3 May 2023·other· 78:20–80:5258:475 lessons from an hour with StellaLeanne Elliott: Me too Al Elliott: You sounded really sad when you said that, like it's never gonna happen Leanne Elliott: I know, it's almost overEP 33 · 5 Apr 2023·other· 58:47–66:2639:21The question Al should have asked — improv comedyAl Elliott: Brilliant. Is there any question that I should have asked you that I haven't? Jim Young: Yeah. And it would be about what I've done outside of my work life, the traditional professional career. That has helpeEP 22 · 17 Jan 2023·interview· 39:21–42:06
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