Hiring Someone - TFS 17

Last week I talked about how to fire someone. Today I will cover my thoughts on hiring someone. A good prerequisite for this post is this one on hire people for jobs not jobs for people. The last few times we have found people we placed ads in the University of Nebraska student paper and also craigslist. Now the Omaha section of craigslist is not very busy but we still get great responses. I also have placed ads in print newspapers and got a lot of response from that aswell. Usually I just put a number to a answering machine then 1 day go through them all... write down phone numbers and names and start the interview process. I am always amazed at how people start of the call with "I am probably not qualified" or "I don't have the skills you marked as required" and they just want to ask you questions like what should they goto school for... I mean seriously... When I hired dillsmack the first time I had sworn never to hire another out of state contractor. I had been flaked out on so much.... but he was just like give me a shot and let see how it goes. He was confident in his skills and was willing to sacrifice money for a few jobs here and there for a shot at something bigger. So I took him up on his offer years ago. I think the deal was 10$ a hour if I remember correctly.. anyway in the first week he had accomplished more then what I had been paying 80-120$ a hour for in the previous 5 months. I have not hired many people. Probably less then 15 in the last 3 years. The last person I hired was a hooters girl from the Omaha Hooters to come to Las Vegas affiliate summit to hand out limited edition shoemoney shirts. I don't really pay people based on what they do so much has how they do it. I mean to some extent anyway.... For instance someone I can count on and trust is worth a ton... period because if I cant do that then that means not only did I waste money on them but now I have to do the job myself or find someone else which creates a whole monkey cluster flux. So now when I hire someone I pay them as little as possible until I get to know them. Like I mean minimum wage. If they are willing to do the work and show me how valuable they are they will VERY QUICKLY raise up through the ranks. I am not a big company where we have caps on how much more a person can earn then previous years. Like when I worked at wells fargo I think the max increase you could get was like 5% + inflation and that SUCKED. I always felt like wtf is the point. Anyway we have been interviewing people lately for AuctionAds and I just had this on my mind so I thought I would share.