Hi, I'm Don

I didn't start out teaching companies how to hire people.

I started by helping people get hired, mostly because I had such a hard time doing it myself.

Looking back on those early years, I'm not sure I was the problem. I think many of the people interviewing me had no idea what they were doing. Maybe I wasn't very good at interviewing either, but I'm sticking with the first version.

Early in my career, I worked for organizations like NASA, Exxon, and several Cleveland-based IT companies.

Later, I became fascinated with interviewing and what separated the candidates who consistently got hired from those who didn't.

That curiosity eventually led me to create Job Interview Tools, where I spent years helping job seekers interview more effectively and understand what employers were really looking for.

Over the years, I've worked with thousands of job seekers, built one of the largest interview resources on YouTube with more than 450,000 subscribers, and helped millions of people prepare for interviews around the world.

The more people I worked with, the more I realized great candidates were often being filtered out by hiring processes that simply weren't built to identify them.

Many hiring processes lacked structure and consistency.

Different interviewers looked for different things. Questions rarely uncovered what mattered most. Hiring decisions often came down to instinct instead of a reliable process.

The more I studied the problem, the more I realized hiring wasn't just difficult for candidates. It was difficult for employers too.

Most business owners never receive formal training on how to hire.

They're expected to build teams, evaluate people, and make decisions that can shape the future of their company, often with little more than a resume, a few interviews, and a gut feeling.

Today, I help founders, startups, and small business owners build hiring systems that bring more structure, consistency, and confidence to the hiring process. At the same time, I continue helping job seekers navigate that process through Job Interview Tools.

I'm also the author of The Long Game, where I write about the decisions, mistakes, and lessons that shape businesses over time.

Whether you're looking to hire the right people or become one of them, I'm glad you're here.

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