General

I love hiring great people.

But, damn: it is really time-consuming and energy draining.

I just counted: as of this morning, we have 13 full-time employees, 45 part-time employees, and many great contractors who all help to make the Museum Hack magic.

When we first started to hire tour guides and operations staff, we knew we wanted to cast a very wide net to find the best and brightest candidates.

Because we’re a fun place to work with flexible hours inside some of the best museums in the world, we also knew that our “Renegade Tour Guide” job would be in high demand by job seekers. It didn’t hurt the position paid $32 an hour.

We needed a way to filter and find the best candidates quickly.

Jen, Kate, and Zak on the Museum Hack team working to review a scavenger hunt. Certain screening questions can help applicants show personality.

A core specialty of our company is designing team building experiences, storytelling workshops and other training events for growing companies.

These experiences rely heavily on using effective stories and questions to help our guests laugh, open up, and share their own perspective.

I want to share how we use a similar “system” to hire our own team and some of the unique and innovative methods we’ve used to improve the hiring process.

These techniques are something you can use immediately in your own small business hiring process. You will see immediate results.

Table of Contents

• Our Hiring Secret Sauce: Screening Questions
• How to Get Over 200 Applicants Per Job Listing
• How Museum Hack Uses Screening Questions
• How Other Companies Use Screening Questions
• How We Do Applicant Tracking
• Conclusion

Examples of Screening Questions

• Sales Positions
• Customer Service Positions
• Business/Sales Positions
• Marketing Positions
• Customer Success Positions
• Knowledgebase / Technical Positions

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My friend Tynan turned his small art collection into a museum-quality display in his home.

You can do it, too. We will show you how.

The Tynan Museum, located inside one of his homes in Las Vegas, NV.

Tynan has done four things in the above photo that we’ll review:

1. Custom description labels,
2. Professional plexiglass case,
3. Featured lighting, and
4. Custom wall mountings.

I interviewed him to find out why and how he did it.

This article will help you upgrade how you show off cool stuff in your home. You can make your house or apartment feel like a really cool museum.

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Trade shows and conferences are expensive for small business owners.

I’m always on the lookout for great low-cost marketing hacks to generate attention.

I saw GEICO using these custom badge ribbons at a recent conference and was impressed.

This is a low-cost, innovative, and admittedly gimmicky thing you can do as a trade show exhibitor to attract attention for your brand and visitors to your trade show booth.

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I want to talk about a lifestyle and concept that has been world changing for me and friends: base layers.

Base layer, definition: A healthy prequel to the main event.

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The brand new Amazon Books opened today in NYC, here is my review (spoiler: I love it)

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I usually carry a notebook in my back left pocket. I try to write down interesting things that I hear.

These are some from the past month.

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