Hiring in the AI Age - Justin Dixon - Chief Endurance Officer with Greg McDonough - Episode # 144
How do endurance thinking, smart hiring, and AI-savvy recruiting help founders build resilient, scalable businesses?
Today’s guest is an insightful founder and recruiting leader who blends an endurance mindset, disciplined goal-setting, and real-world hiring strategy to help leaders grow through uncertainty. Introducing Justin Dixon, Founder and CEO of Hire Tomorrow. Justin partners with host Gregory McDonough to share how thinking in “a series of sprints,” simplifying goals, and hiring earlier than feels comfortable can unlock sustainable growth. He also delves into navigating AI’s disruption of recruiting, avoiding common startup hiring mistakes, and building resilience when timing and conditions are out of your control.
Takeaways
- Think in sprints, not just marathons. Balance long-term vision with quarterly execution, and stay flexible as conditions change.
- Build accountability into goal-setting. Use annual planning with quarterly check-ins to review progress, pivot, and celebrate wins.
- Hire earlier than feels comfortable. Don’t wait for perfection; delegate tasks below your value level to free up strategic focus.
- Avoid unicorn hires. Define one clear role with success metrics instead of expecting one person to do three jobs.
- Adapt to AI-disrupted recruiting. More applicants don’t mean better candidates, filter for quality and don’t rely on “post and pray.”
- Use a two-resume strategy as a job seeker. ATS-friendly resumes for applications; polished PDFs for interviews.
- Control your response, not timing. Endurance, adaptability, and system-building turn short-term chaos into long-term advantage.
Quote of the Show:
- “Sometimes you have to run at a very fast clip in your business or in life to get to that next hurdle." - Justin Dixon
Links:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmdixon15/
- Company website: https://www.hiretomorrow.com/
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Creators and Guests
Host
Gregory McDonough
Greg McDonough is a seasoned executive who has owned and operated businesses in the professional services sector, navigating them through both good and tough times. He brings his personal experience of knowing what it’s like to be ‘in the owner’s seat’ when working with clients, taking time to ask the questions others may not.
