Recruiting Animal

Treat Smart People To Lunch

Hubspot's policy: "Take someone smart out for a meal. Learn something. Expense it. No approval needed. No limits. No rules. Use good judgment.“

At age 24, Shah had a small network so he asked a senior sales rep for guidance.

“His advice: ‘Pickup golf. Big deals are always done on the golf course.’

This was a problem I had never held a golf club and golf took time, money and patience, none of which I had.” Shah tells Quartz, expressing a sentiment that most people who aren’t wealthy white men can relate to.

“So instead, I decided that to replace golf as a way to do business, I would do meals.

"I would reach out to companies in cities I was traveling to and offer to take them out for a really nice meal. It worked so well that we made it a company-wide policy: Anyone could take anyone else out for a meal and expense it to the company.”

Swearing Is Good For You

On The Recruiting Animal Show, guest, Chris Schwacofer, came under fire for his salty tongue. So, here's an article about that:

"For as long as I can remember, I’ve been unable to convincingly curse.... If I’m chatting with a colleague and they start dropping F-bombs, I freeze up ...

"Am I paying a price for talking like Ned Flanders?

"In her new book Swearing Is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language, author Emma Byrne makes a strong case that the answer is yes.

"Swearing is “socially and emotionally essential” and “beneficial to us.”

"Swearing is so fundamental to human expression, that people with neurological conditions that cause them to lose the ability to speak regular words are still able to swear.

"Swearing can offer emotional catharsis and improve productivity. Her hope, she writes, is that we “might give it the respect it fucking deserves.”