The perfect employee is a myth. The right employee is a person who will show up, learn the standard, and not set the shop on fire. In this episode of Optimized Entrepreneur with Jeremy Hanson, hiring gets taken out of the “nobody wants to work” complaint and put back on the owner: what you are looking for, where you look, and how you tell a worker from a résumé.

Skill can be trained more often than character. Fit beats flash. If you hire in a panic and hope, you will train the same headache twice.

You’ll learn

• What “perfect” actually means in a small business
• Character vs. credentials
• Where good people actually come from
• How to screen without wasting a week
• Why a vague job and a desperate hire create the same problem

FAQ Does the perfect employee exist? No. The right one does: re ...