Hiring people is a funny thing:

You usually have to hire them when you're at your maximum capacity already.

It's a cruel irony.

However there's ways to avoid all this work by adding some modern touches to the old way of hiring someone.  Let's make the robots do MOST of the grunt work, then us cool humans can swoop in right at the end to make the final decision :-)

Get comfy, grab a notebook to take notes, and follow along this 4-part video series on how to hire someone with the least amount of work:

PART 1: OLD vs. NEW HIRING

Here's a quick lesson on how you should START hiring, versus the old-fashioned way of hiring:

Now that you understand the concept behind this, let's get started with the content of your ad in Part 2.

PART 2: WHY TO USE AN "ELIMINATION VIDEO"

When I started hiring, I looked at from the point of view from the person apply...

IT WAS DAUNTING!

Imagine trying to look for job, and applying to a place you're NOT EVEN SURE YOU WANT TO WORK AT.

If you get a job that didn't quite meet your expectations, soon you start caring less, and becoming a bad employee.

I've found an easy way to combat that....THE ELIMINATION VIDEO!

Here's an example I did....that hired me an assistant within 17 hours of posting. Several people even emailed me saying, "This was the best job posting I've seen on Craigslist in months!"

....and it was because they could see EXACTLY what they'd be getting:

Here's an easy script to follow for your video (Feel free to split it up into pieces if you can't say it all at once):

For now, I want you to understand the MASSIVE benefit even a short & simple video provides.

Go to Part 3 and follow along, we're going to start building our own Craigslist ad!

PART 3: MAKING YOUR OWN AUTOMATED HIRING AD

Here's the first part you need to know.....and if you already know how to post on Craigslist, this will show you some extra tips:

Let's get started making your ad!

Here's the script we used in the video:

Or you can use the script below which is in the proper A.I.D.A. format.

NOW LET'S MAKE GOOGLE DOCS HANDLE ALL THE WORK FOR YOU:

Google Docs has a thing called Google Forms which allows you to......actually....I'll explain in the video!

See how easy that was to create? Simply learning JUST how to make this Google Doc form accept all your applicants will save you massive amounts of time!

Here are some sample questions you can use. Just copy/paste whichever questions your need to ask into Google Forms. Now your applicants will TELL you what you need to know, instead of you hunting for the information across hundreds of resumes.

PART 4: EXAMPLES & CASE STUDIES:

Let's take a slightly-old-fashioned hiring process, and put a twist on it.

I'm going to show the OLD way of hiring, and then we'll step-by-step make a new (and more efficient way):

Let's start by showing you how it's first being done (the old way):

Now as you can see from that old way AppSumo will get SWAMPED with résumé's and emails. Let's try re-doing this ad the new way:

Now we've got a slick webpage with our job posting (although this isn't a completely necessary step, it's a REALLY great route to go for your job postings). Check out this sample page:

http://www.appsumo.com/deal-operations-manager/

Let's now make the Google Form that will do all our hiring "for" us:

...and for our final step, let's integrate the two, and make a single-page job posting:

THERE!

Now in one page we have everything a job applicant needs to know.....and everything in place that will just collect us a nice bath of job applicants we can casually browse:

http://www.appsumo.com/deal-operations-manager/

HIRING AN ASSISTANT: NEVILLE'S CASE STUDY

I wanted to hire an assistant fast, here's how I did it:

Here's the questions I used in my (VERY SIMPLE) Google Form. Notice the "magic question" is the Wordpress task. If they didn't do that, I wouldn't consider them.

You can see the live form here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/embeddedform?formkey=dDNHOXIwcXZvOUF2aUliWnd1X2RNVWc6MQ

HIRING AN ASSISTANT: LIDA'S CASE STUDY

Lida hired an assistant in two days, virtually copying everything here verbatim! Lida was looking for an assistant, and two days later found a good one.

She let me know of her success through Twitter:

Here's the video she made (notice how similar the language is to the videos I made myself):

Her video was a just a YouTube video with a link to this Google Form in the description:

Just more proof this method works very effectively, and anyone (even with limited skills) can do this!

Hope you learned a quick new method to quickly "interview" hundreds of people without actually having to interview anyone yourself. This method isn't 100% perfect, but it can drastically decrease the amount of in-person time you need to spend when interviewing and hiring.

To sum up this hiring process in a nutshell:

1.) Make a disqualifiying video.

2.) Make a Google Form.

3.) Post an ad with the video and form, and you "Magic Question".

4.) This will automatically thin out the onslaught of applicants to few quality applicants!

P.S. Let me (and others) know if you've used this technique before, or any success/failure you've had with it!

P.P.S. If you need any help with your own hiring process, ask below and I'll answer all questions!

P.P.P.S. Please share with your HR people as this can drastically reduce workload and speed up hiring certain positions!