Interviewing a Candidate

Hey guys, what's going on? Um, today we're gonna talk a little bit about interviewing, hiring, what we look for in a, um, candidate that comes in the clinic. So basically one of my biggest and most important things is making sure you bring on the right talent to work with you because ultimately you're only as good as your team is. So if you don't have the right people, you don't have passionate people, you don't have people who are excited to be here, it makes your life as the management very difficult and it also is gonna just make roadblocks towards your success and your clinic success. So when we hire.

People on, uh, first thing I always look for in an interview is somebody who's excited, somebody who's passionate, somebody who's genuinely passionate about the field. They're not just like in there like, hey, yeah, yep, I'm a doctor. I'm excited to do this or whatever. I wanna see energy. I wanna see good communication skills. I want people to ask questions. Nothing is worse than when you interview somebody and then you talk to them for 25 minutes and then you ask them if they have any questions and they say, no, I think you pretty much summed it up there, right? I want people who want to engage you. I always.

Like one of my favorite tricks to do, if you want to call it that, is bring somebody back for a second interview if they do well just one on one, and I have them basically hang around the clinic for a few hours and talk to my staff, talk to the people on the floor, talk to the patients, and just get a feel for it and I like to see how my staff reacts to them. Hey, do they like them? Do they spend a lot of time talking to them, or the person outgoing? Were they energetic? Were they excited to be here? Or were they kind of just hanging back and not really getting involved in it, a little more timid.

I know interviews can be scary. I understand that for those of you that are new grads that are watching this. However, it's so important to put your best foot forward, and it's so important. You just came out of school, you should have a lot of passion and excitement. If you don't have it then, how am I gonna expect you to have it 5 years down the line or 10 years down the line, right? It's tough. You can't teach these things, so it's important to make sure your, your staff has them when they come on board because then you can really, really train them in Other stuff. I don't care if you graduated 1st in your class or last in your class. I don't care.

If you're the brightest person on earth, to me that's all great and fine, but if you can't communicate with your your patients and your coworkers, it's gonna make your life a lot more difficult and it's gonna really impede your success in this type of field. So when we hire, we always look for passion, we look for energy, we look for great communication skills, and we look for people who just really, really wanna be a part of it and really wanna work together. I always tell everybody you need to be a team player. If you're gonna come on and you're not gonna work together in a comprehensive type of setting, you.

We're Gonna get anywhere if we're not all working together with our chiropractors, our PTs, our OTEs, our MDs, and really reaching out and working with these people. How are we supposed to ever build or become better at what we do because we're not leaning on the resources around us. So look for those things when you guys are hiring new grads, make sure when you come in for an interview, these are the things you're putting forward because any Business owner, anybody who runs a clinic, anybody who's managing, anybody who directs anything, they're going to want to see these. This is what's going to separate you from your peers.

Have at it, folks.