{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The HR Life Podcast","title":"EP 56 Where's My Ashtray, Hire Right Fire Fast, and the OceanGate Culture Collapse with Bryan McCurdy ","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5331,"description":"What does a foreman burning a coworker with a cigarette have to do with a submarine imploding two and a half miles under the Atlantic? On this episode, Tony and Steve sit down with Bryan McCurdy, HR Director at Hughes General Contractors, to find out. Bryan didn't set out to work in HR (nobody really does, apparently), but nearly twenty years later he's running people operations for a seventy-year-old, third-generation family construction company He explains why he failed a forty five minute personality test at Target during a Christmas hiring push, why the traditional job posting is broken, and why he'd rather hire for what someone is great at than spend forever trying to fix what they're bad at.\nThe conversation gets even more interesting when the guys pull the OceanGate Titan disaster into the mix, using it as a gut punch example of what happens when leadership refuses to listen to the people warning them something is about to break.\nLearn more about Bryan McCurdy at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryan-mccurdy-shrm-cp-ab703630/\nRecovery Friendly Workplace of Utah: https://rfwutah.org/\nLearn more about Fantastic Tony Benjamin at: https://www.thegrangellc.com/\nLearn more about Steven \"Big Deal\" Smith at: https://thehiringtreebook.com/\nLearn more about the Books mentioned on the podcast at: https://thehiringtreebook.com/hr-life-podcast\nLearn More about the Netflix film Titan at: https://www.netflix.com/title/81712178\nLearn more about Dyno Outfitters at: https://www.utahviaferrata.com/\nLearn more about MegastarHR at: https://www.megastarhr.com/\nLearn more about Pucks for Autism at: https://www.pucksforautism.com/\nLearn more about Thrive Life Project at: https://www.thrivelifeproject.org/","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Dg1nikgNIIIBiQCUsnJo4wpEX5v9Sjy5XBFpDEL2i2A/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jODk0/MWQzOTZhY2IyMDVi/ODhhMWZmY2EyZTFl/ZGU0Ny5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}