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Why Your Gut Is a Terrible Hiring Manager — And What to Do Instead
Episode 134
Tuesday, 21 April, 2026
In this episode, Dr. Steve Vargo tackles a frustrating experience nearly every practice owner has lived through: a candidate who interviews beautifully, gets hired with confidence — and then quietly unravels six weeks later. Why does this keep happening? Drawing on research into hiring psychology and behavioral science, Steve makes the case that bad hires aren't bad luck — they're the predictable result of a broken process. The gut instinct we rely on in interviews turns out to be one of the weakest predictors of job performance. Meanwhile, the approaches that actually work are ones most independent practices have never been taught. In this episode, Steve breaks down the most common places the hiring process goes sideways, why interviews are performance environments that reward the wrong things, and what a smarter — and surprisingly simple — approach looks like in a real-world practice setting.
