Happy Friday, 🎉

In today’s issue:

• 🗞 AI + Hiring News

• 📣 Announcement

• 😱 MrBeast’s Leaked Onboarding Doc

• 🎥 MrBeast’s 3 Most Popular YouTube Videos

• 🙊 Meme Of The Day

The News 🗞

AI: 🤖

• OpenAI valuation reaches $157B

• LinkedIn’s Have Nots and Have Bots

• Microsoft’s AI Boss Wants Copilot to Bring ‘Emotional Support’ to Windows and Office

Hiring:👩🏼‍💼

• Hiring picks up for the first time in 6-months

• Gender Gap in Workforce Participation and Pay Reaches Record Low

• The Evolution of Sourcing in Talent Acquisition: A Back to the Future Moment

Announcement 📣

For the foreseeable future, the AI Hiring Newsletter will arrive in your inbox every other week.

Why? I'm committed to delivering premium content that helps you navigate the AI hiring landscape. With a bit more time between issues, I can give each newsletter the attention and care it deserves.

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MrBeast’s Leaked Onboarding Doc 😱 

MrBeast has 317+ Million YouTube Subscribers.

And… his onboarding doc was just leaked. 🙌

Here are 10 Wisdom Gems:

💎 MrBeast hires for 4 things:

• Accountability 

• Ownership

• Creativity

• Effort 

💎 Embrace the pivot.

MrBeast isn’t afraid to show when things go wrong. Obstacles make great content.

💎 Creativity = budget saver.

It can be easy to throw money at a problem to solve. The harder and often more valuable thing is to give yourself a financial constraint.

Ex: I must find a way to solve X problem for free.

💎 Results > hours.

YouTube rewards results, not effort. MrBeast doesn’t care if you worked 20 hrs and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on a video if it sucked.

💎 Don’t do anything someone else can do.

MrBeast does what he does best: he creates the most engaging YouTube videos. If someone else is better at something, he outsources it to them.

💎 Create “wow” moments.

The “wow” factor is what makes you unique and allows the audience to feel emotionally connected to you. It’s what AI can’t take from you.

Ex: MrBeast’s crazy extreme challenges. Who else willingly spends 7 days buried alive? (hopefully, no one!)

💎 Be honest, not nice.

MrBeast is willing to have hard conversations and be brutally honest with his team. Honesty builds great teams, not sugarcoating the truth.

💎 Obsession over balance. 

MrBeast spends nearly all his waking hours creating YouTube videos. Shopping? Playing Board games? “Just chilling”? Not MrBeast, unless it’s for content.

💎 Consultants are a gift from God. 

MrBeast asks his employees to repeat back to him, “I will always check with consultants before starting a task.”

Ex: If you want to bake the biggest slice of cake in the world, find the person who baked the current biggest slice.

💎 Push through no (while respecting consent).

Ex: If one Dollar Store employee won’t let you film, ask other employees there. If they say no, call all the Dollar Stores until you get a yes.

🧠 Here’s a G Drive link to the onboarding doc.

MrBeast’s 3 Most Popular Videos 🎥

• $456,000 Squid Game In Real Life! (654+ million views)

• Last To Leave Circle Wins $500,000 (469+ million views)

• $1 vs. $1,000,000 Hotel Room! (368+ million views)

Meme Of The Day 🙊

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