EP341: Jamie Van Cuyk - The Secrets Of Effective Hiring

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Yeah, it has, uh, it's been a year. It's funny, I was looking to see when did we record last, and we're recording this on January 11th, and our record date for the last time I was on was last year, January 12th. So we're pretty much exactly a year from the last time, uh, we were recording. And I will say that this is— it's been an interesting year, and One of the things that I think will probably tie nicely into our episode and what we're going to really talk about is I had some changes with my team this year that I wasn't expecting when we were talking like last year, but they were 100% the right moves for my business. And around the time that we were talking last year, I had one part-time employee. She had just recently started with me. I had a part-time employee before that who was working for me about 10 hours a week, and I realized I needed more help. So, um, the team member that was working for me 10 hours a week couldn't give me any more hours because she was also working a full-time job. And so we ended up parting ways and I brought in a new team member for 20 hours a week. And then in June, I realized my business had taken a shift and I no longer had 20 hours of work for her