# talent acquisition
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0:00Intro: The waiting list problemAl Elliott: Most businesses struggle with recruiting great people. They post jobs on Indeed, they sponsor LinkedIn ads, they cross their fingers. Rachel Harris runs a mid-sized UK accounting firm, and she has the oppositEP 299 · 7 May 2026·intro· 0:00–0:1711:51Story of the Year: The Great Employment HeistAl Elliott: Yeah. And I suppose there's also an element of ego, of, um, protecting your position of, you know, if someone, if someone's not particularly confident, but they're a CEO, they need to make sure that everyone EP 260 · 23 Dec 2025·other· 11:51–14:5513:34MrBeast's vibe check hiring trialsAl Elliott: All right, so let's all be dark and humourless at work. Leanne, what else have you seen? Leanne Elliott: I've seen, is vibe checking new hires the way to recruit A-players? This was the question raised in BusEP 238 · 7 Oct 2025·news roundup· 13:34–20:2810:47Hiring A-players: tough love or recruitment theatre?Al Elliott: Yes. So I saw on Twitter or Twix or X or whatever we're calling it these days. This post, I'm only going to say the person posting it, their name is, first name is Michael, who's essentially 6 strategies abouEP 216 · 22 Jul 2025·news roundup· 10:47–15:5727:26Talent acquisition strategiesJon Smith: And we watch the players a lot. We look and we look and we look and we look. So yeah, they do. You know, the trading window finishes on the 31st of August or the 1st of September, and everyone buggers off on hEP 91 · 18 Apr 2024·interview· 27:26–28:4332:59Lesson 1: Finding great peoplemidroll (Phil Agnew, Nudge): Keep that in. Al Elliott: So the 3 main lessons here from Oliver's story, all around people. The first lesson here is finding great people. I asked him, I said, you've got some really smart pEP 38 · 10 May 2023·interview· 32:59–37:48
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