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Todd Dawalt and Justin Landry discuss a five-step system for hiring better employees in the construction industry.

EPISODE 452: Hiring for your construction business shouldn't feel like an emergency every time you do it. In this episode, Todd Dawalt sits down with JL Talent Solutions founder Justin Landry to break down a five-step system for hiring better construction employees without leaning on gut feel. ⚡Schedule a Business Evaluation Call with The Construction Leading Edge Team: HERE 👉 Most construction owners only start hiring when someone quits or the team is already stretched past its limit. Justin Landry calls this the reactive hiring trap, and it's why so many builders end up hiring for skills when the thing they were really missing was fit. Justin has spent ten years helping high-end construction companies across North America make data-driven hires instead of gut-feel gambles. In this conversation, he and Todd dig into why the "all the good people are gone" story is usually fear doing the talking, and why your strongest candidates are almost never the ones actively scrolling job boards. Todd also makes the case for what an owner's time is actually worth, and why "I'll just do it myself" tends to cost far more than it looks. From there, Justin walks through his Hire Right System…

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