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Mike Voories
Founder & CEO at BR1 | Author
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- Mike Voories
- September 30, 2026
I've never had much patience for the question "Can we?" I want to hear "How do we?" And lately I've got even less...
- Mike Voories
- September 21, 2026
An interview is the candidate on his best day, talking to a buyer who badly wants to buy.
- Mike Voories
- September 16, 2026
Open LinkedIn any morning and you'll see it. "I was impacted by the recent round of layoffs at..." Impacted. Like a...
- Mike Voories
- September 9, 2026
Think about the person on your team who pushes back on you the most. Not the one who complains. The one who argues with...
- Mike Voories
- August 25, 2026
You interview a strong operations manager on Tuesday. At the end of the conversation, you tell them they'll hear from...
- Mike Voories
- August 18, 2026
Pull up the job description you're using right now. Read it line by line. Not for what it says — for where each line...
- Mike Voories
- August 8, 2026
You can work your ass off finding a really good employee, hire somebody with all kinds of potential, and then spend the...
- Mike Voories
- July 31, 2026
A guy quits in May. Another guy quits in July. You're looking at two resignations. Two conversations. Two sets of...
- Mike Voories
- July 21, 2026
You don't have a hiring problem. You have a winter problem. Every year, you lose good people. And every year, you file...
- Mike Voories
- July 16, 2026
You already know the labor market in this industry is brutal. Everybody's hiring. Nobody can find enough good people....
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