Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Tom Stewart here with Liz Trotter. Our guest today is Libby DeLucin. DeLucian. DeLucian. I should have worked on that before we started. My apologies. Thank you for joining us.  Today, we're going to be talking about recruiting with Woot recruit, and just a general concept, but I'm sure we're learning a lot about the product as well. Yes, awesome. I'm excited to be here. So the thing about Woot recruit is you guys really do. You automate the process. I know I use Woot recruit in our company and you guys do automate the recruiting process. You make it so that it just reduces the amount of time that the company has to spend and it makes it how Woot recruit makes it so that you have a consistent process. Also, I think that that's something that gets lost with people sometimes. Hey, Denny. Hey, hey, I feel like you need another hey on there for like that. Hey, hey, hey, hey. I think that's one of the things that people forget about with automations. It's not just that it's happening automatically, which is amazing, don't get me wrong, but the consistency, that you're getting the same consistent, you're doing the same consistent thing. So A.B. testing can work in that environment, right? A.B. testing doesn't work if you don't have a consistent thing that you're doing all of the time. So I do love that as well. Oh, so Tom, you're gonna share. Yeah, just kind of the whole theme for the month, we're gonna take a process each session, each show out of the process flow chart and talk about how automations can be used to get better outcomes. And if you roll the clock back a while, the whole idea of how automations was kind of icing on the cake, the standard operating procedure was we got to get all these manual processes in place and we've got to hire people to do all this stuff. Then you might hire one person to own more than one process for smaller companies. I might own a bunch of processes, but it was all about building a team and training the people in that team to do these things. But in automations, which is kind of something that you can kind of throw in, but really in 2022, I think it's kind of flipping where automations is kind of the primary way that a lot of these processes are being run or at least through technology. And the people that you're hiring to own these processes are much about being on the technology side and running the automations as it is doing the manual stuff that people used to do. It's shifting and I think the mindset has to shift with it to kind of get with where we are with the 2022, it's not hiring a bunch of people and letting them do manual processes anymore and giving them a computer to do some things with automations. I think it's a lot more about having people on your team who can run the technology and use the tools that you're giving them and certainly automating the recruiting process. There's a ton of work that you can save there with the right tools. So are you thinking then, Tom, that more companies nowadays are hiring out for these processes or they are doing them in-house or like, how does that play in? Who's doing it? I think it's all over the board. And I mean, certainly in again, 2022, it is easier to find outside resources. There's tons of freelance sites out there that you can find very talented people all over the globe that can do these particular activities for you and for other companies that makes sense to hire people and have them in-house and on staff. But the thing that I think is shifting and I think that we're gonna see this more and more as time goes on, it used to be the initial thought was, I gotta hire somebody to answer the phone, send the email, do all this manual stuff. And if there's an app that I can give them to make their job easier, that's great. I think the app is really, the technology is quickly becoming in the forefront, the first thing that we need to think about and then it's like, well, what resources do we need that can use this technology that we're going to perform these processes with? Okay, I like that. So basically it's just slipped how we're thinking about it more than anything. We're still doing a lot of the same stuff where the focus is that first focus has just shifted from, okay, I've got my person, now what do I need for them to do? Versus, all right, now I've got my technology, now how do I manage it? How do I make that happen? Technology's getting better and cheaper and more available. I mean, Lina's gonna be showing us some really cool stuff here and I'm sorry for belaboring the point, but it's true that five years ago, you had to be a large company to have access to the tools and technology that Libby's gonna be showing us today. So that's really a game changer and we need to be as managers and putting our business strategies together and building our team, we need to be thinking about technology first and how technology and automation is gonna run the processes in this process flow and what do we build around that to make it work? Well, actually I'm thinking that you're speaking right to Libby's language, that's why you started Woot Recruit, right, Libby? Because you knew you wanted a tech solution. Yeah, exactly, I had started Woot Recruit because I was actually pregnant and didn't have time to run my cleaning company and do the manual process of going through applications, calling the applicants, looking at resumes and waiting for these people to show up for interviews and all for them to not show up and still clean. I cleaned houses, I did the organizing all while being eight, nine months pregnant. So I needed a solution and I originally came from a professional organizing background. So I was a professional organizer, I started my company as a professional organizing company so I love systems and processes. So Tom talking about processes and systems is right up my alley and then my second love is technology and I said there has got to be an easier way to this and so I made this little system of what is now Woot Recruit and my original version of Woot Recruit looks much different of what it looks like now but essentially it was a automated process where applicants could go and apply and it led them through a series of automations where I didn't have to do anything because I was too busy being a mom, cleaning houses, being an organizer and doing everything and so that was kind of where it evolved and how it started. And it saves us so much time now and it has been so much help and the story behind it is just crazy where that little process that I made I did just this little presentation on it and it just so happens that Paul Fasshauer was sitting in the room when I did it and he was like, when I was done he came up to me and he said, hey, that's pretty cool. So he think we could implement that in my business and it was the week that COVID had hit and we were in Dallas and I was like, yeah, sure. Like we weren't even sure what we were going to be able to fly home. I was like, sure. And so we worked on it together and he took my process and he made it better and he made it scalable and we implemented it and we took his company from 17 technicians to 32 like enlightening speed. Yeah. And he was like, man, but you wanna just make this a business and my quick start in me was like, yeah, let's do it. He's like, you didn't even need to think about it. What's your thing about it? Yeah. And that is essentially how we recruit was made. And so we are barely a year old and we just celebrated closing a half a million dollars this year revenue. Wow. Yeah. Very nice. I like that. That's because the process is working, right? It's working for a lot of people and a lot of people are having success. So how should we move forward with this conversation today, Libby? Oh, what do you suggest that people in the audience could get the most out of the conversation with regards to how to automate, what needs to automate? What we usually like to do on smart business moves is explain to people what needs to happen even if you don't use, Hey, Linda, even if you don't use the presenters product, like what are still the best practices in this area? Because we recognize that not everybody's going to use, you know, Tom sells made central. I use, I sell strategic success groups. Not everybody's going to be in my groups. Not everybody's going to be in made central. Not everybody's going to end up in a boot recruit. But we believe that, again, name of the company, name of our show, right? Smart business moves, that there are some best practices that we need to do regardless of the platform that you're using. So can you speak to that a little bit? Oh, that's so cute. I love that. Yeah, I've got to drop the link to a recruit while we're talking though, if anybody wants to poke around and play with that, the link's in the chat. Thanks, Tom. Yeah, absolutely. We actually have a link and I can also drop it in the chat. And so some, that is a little tool that is super cool and it is your hiring goals and it is a goal calculator. And you can put in this goal calculator and this will help you really realize do you need the power of automations? And this goal calculator is going to put in, you're going to have to put in how many technicians did you start the year with? How many did you end the year with? It's going to calculate your attrition. Would it be to pop up on the screen and show, Libby? Yeah, I put the link in there so Tom can go right to that link and you can just plug in any numbers you want, Tom, if you want to play with it. And this is a great tool, it's free for anybody to use.  And it's really going to show you the power of automations. Bigger, Tom, you know, I've got a 32 inch screen and control. Yeah, there we go. There we go. So you currently have, you can just say, yeah, because it's just going to tell you, it's going to give you some really cool numbers that you probably didn't even know that you needed to know. What did you want to end the year? What's your end of the year goal? Maybe you said you were at what, 100,000 a month and you want to end with 150,000, the name of your company. And it's going to email you the answers. Actually, it's going to tell you the answers on the screen. Email me. And so your results are, so that's your, so you need to hire five technicians. So the total technicians are 15, if you go down. Here are some of your targets right here. So you need to, by the end of the year, have hired eight. Okay. To be able to end with five. To be able to end with five. Based on your historical data. On your historical data of the numbers that you have put in. So hopefully those were real numbers that you put in. I don't know what you're talking about. Or at least some real numbers that you put in. Yeah, I was making stuff up. But it's plausible. Revenue protect, maybe it was made ambitious, but it's doable. Yeah, I love this. So there's so many people out there.  How much marketing do I need to do? How many people do I need to hire? How many new customers do I need to get? And wouldn't you be able to start piecing all those together? You really know what you need to do in order to make that, you know, revenue number that you're shooting for. So, you know, this right here will tell you how many weekly interviews do I need to do? This is saying that statistically you need to do 3.2 interviews a week, but you need to have 6.4 interviews scheduled. And that's still half, right? That's if you have a 50% show rate. So is that a number that you guys see as kind of a national average? Is a 50% show rate, yeah. That is a group recruit show rate. So we have a little bit higher show rate than most people. All right, so that's good information. So if you are filling this out and you know that if you invite 10 people and only two show, you're going to have to change this number because this is on 50%, not on 20%. And you're assuming that 50% of the job offers actually take the job? So we're assuming that jobs offered right here daily 1.4. Like the job offers 1.4 and higher, you know, you want to hire 0.7 people a month. So you have to offer twice that many people in order to. Twice that, yeah, okay. And if you're in who recruit, what that means is if you are, everything's cut in half, right? So if you know that you need to have five people, then you know that you have to interview 10. No, you have to interview 20. So you have to interview 20 because only, or you have to invite to interview 20, only 10 are going to show up. And of those 10 that show up, you're only going to hire half of those. So you're going to end up with five. And then there's probably after that, we are going to, you're going to also need to look at, I'm not sure if this is on here, but your retention rate. So, so you hire five, how many of those five are going to stick for an entire month? Yeah, we entered earlier number of techs that we lost the prior year. So that kind of gets us an 80% attrition rate, which in the whole scheme of things is probably optimistic. It was probably better than average. Yeah, that's pretty good. Yeah, those numbers you put in earlier affects some of this stuff. Yeah, cause you determined what the retention rate was, right? If I hit the backward errors button, will that allow me to do that? I think so. If not, you can probably just refresh the page and it'll let you refill it out. It's just start over. It's not like we don't have that light out there. So this is a great tool because it shows you the power of automation. Like, could you manually go through all of these applicants? Could you manually set up all of these interviews? To meet your goal, right? And so I could realistically tell you, there's no way that I could manually do all this to meet my goals, because my goals are pretty ambitious. And I can't afford to hire someone to be dedicated to this cause. So I always say that there are two choices that we have to make sometimes when it comes to our hiring goals. So we have to decide, do we want to automate it or dedicate it? Do we want to automate the system or do we want to hire someone to dedicate to the system? Yeah, nice. I love that. That's easy, right? Think in terms of. And so it really depends on the size of your company, which way you're going to go. And so for some of us smaller, and I'm at a million and a half right now, so I still consider myself small because I can't afford to hire a full-time person to be dedicated to that role yet. Right. So I cannot afford to dedicate someone to that individual role yet. So I have to automate. Shawn. Hey, Shawn. Hey. Hopefully I get to see Shawn at CBF Live this year. Probably. Hey. We're drinking buddies. Yeah. We're drinking buddies that chances are, but he's going to show up then. Yeah. You can put that in the bag. Yeah. So yeah, just think about automate or dedicate.  And so it's really easy to decide which way I have to go when it comes to this process. And so a lot of people ask me, well, how do I automate it? My first piece of advice is the way that I create anything is I cannot automate it unless I have the system first because I don't know. I don't know how to automate it unless I have steps first. So that's my organizing side of my brain. I have to have the process first before I can automate it. All right. So that makes sense. Like how can you automate something you don't have? That doesn't make sense. I wouldn't even know how you would do that. So somebody needs to have a process first so that they can automate it. And so how do they go about that, Libby? What are the steps to do that? So, you know, essentially it's not hard. I would say like Tom said, there's so much software out there. Anybody can get their hands on it. People use things like ClickUp Trello on a huge Trello fan. And essentially you can use absolutely anything out there. I'm a huge fan of using my own website, the back end of it to do stuff. But you can use things like the automations in ClickUp and Trello, but where it becomes difficult is maintaining it after you've made it. And that's where it becomes hard. And so it's just creating that process. And I said, automations, it's no different. Or they get kind of stuck on the whole creating the process. And I said, essentially the process is nothing different than creating a paper process, a binder, a series of steps. And then you find that software that can create that automation part of it. Based on your experience in recruiting and building WootRecruit, are there some from a process standpoint, some best practices you can share, regardless of how you're doing your recruiting that could be useful to our audience? Best practices. Yes, I could say from automations or just best practices in general. Just in general. And then if you could automate it all the better. Yes. I know that there's a lot of, you mentioned WootRecruit gets some better outcomes than just other methods of recruiting. So part of that's the automation, but I imagine some of that's just some techniques, some approaches that you guys have figured out over time. Anything like that that can be useful to our audience? Well, it's a little bit of coaching. So it's really teaching, I'm gonna be honest, our clients to have a sexy job, to really make sure you're using, really, really having a great ad. I know that sounds so basic, but Liz can tell you, we will hound you for a great ad. And we have a great tool. And also I can drop the link in here and it's free for anybody to use to help you write a great ad.  Because we need you to make a really great ad. And I use the word sexy all the time because it's what attracts people first. And if you wanna drop the link in chat, I'll throw that up on the screen and maybe we can write a sexy ad. Because it's writing a great ad because that's what's drawing people to your job first, right? It's that sexy ad and it's then educating you on what does that look like? It's the verbiage in your ad. It's having a powerful title. And so we really educate you on that ad and then if you can't write it, we'd really try to help you to write it. We don't wanna write it for you because it should be really a description of your job and convey your culture. So a short explanation of your company mission. Your company mission. So Tom, we don't wanna have a perfect ad here, right? So let's just throw up, yeah, for an example, just we like to clean, right?   What are some of the things that you're gonna love about this company? Be clean, good. I just put you on some of it that we know is not amazing.  What are some other ones that you commonly see on here, Libby? We pay on time. We pay on time. I like to pay you every time. You pay you every time? We have sexy uniforms. I don't know if you wanna use the word sexy, but. Yeah, I'm curious about that one. How about cool? Yeah, yeah. How about Monday through Friday? Yeah. I'm sorry, what? Monday through Friday. That we work Monday through Friday. I know that's common. No nights and weekends, that's common. Tom, you have to do her line. Plus, yeah, you have to use the plus. Oh my goodness. I wasn't following instructions, was I? So if I hit plus. No, no, no, no, at the end of the line, there's the plus icon. So copy that and stuff. Yeah, just copy all that and get rid of it. There you go. There you go. And so, you know, having a great job ad is a huge part of attraction, right? You want to attract as many people as you can. A great best practice thing is that if your ad is not getting you the volume of applicants you want in 48 hours, take it down. You're wasting your money. So say that again, Libby. If your ad is not getting you the volume you want in 48 hours, take it down. You're wasting your money. Okay, I really like this time frame that you put on it, 48 hours, right? That's your measure, y'all. If you want to know, like, well, how do I know if it's working or not? Libby just told you, 24 hours. Oh, yeah, 48 hours, 48 hours. What did I say? 24. Warren's helping us out here. Hey, Paul. Oh, we got Molly on here too. Best practice. Oh, my goodness. I love you, Molly. Oh, I like that profile pic. That's nice. So if you, yeah, if you're not seeing results in 48 hours take your ad down, you're wasting your ad spend money. If you're paying to boost that job ad, take the ad down and rewrite it. If you're getting the wrong type of applicants, the wrong type, like if you're interviewing all these people and you're saying they're horrible fits, they're not good fits, take the ad down and rewrite it. There is verbiage in the ad attracting the wrong people. So look at what is a great fit for your company and what you're trying to attract and look at the verbiage in your ad. So I will tell you that we love baby boomers and millennials. So I write my ads to attract that. Millennials love culture and baby boomers love money. So, and then. So you're talking about for the top 10 thing or does that, I mean, I love what you're doing here because a lot of times when you're like putting other an ad you're writing it all about, I need somebody that will clean homes for me. They need to have a car. They need to be able to work when if you're Friday. I need, I need, I need, I need, I need. Fireworks, fireworks. Yeah. And you're basically telling them a story of why they would want to work for, for your company. And do you do. So like attracting the, the, the demos that you're talking about, is that specifically in the mission?  So a little bit of all of it. Cause in my ad, like in my personal job ad, I talk about being woman owned, minority owned cause I'm a minority, right? I'm Hispanic, I'm Native American. So I'm trying to attract, I'm trying to attract people that fit in my company. I talk about cleaning for a reason cause we love doing cleaning for a reason cause we want people that love to do charity or love to participate in charity. So it's, it's hitting home to people that kind of have the same likes and interests that the company do, or that I do cause I'm a reflection of the company. So you want to hit it in your benefits. You want to hit it in some of the story or the mission of the story.  It's what you're attracting in your ad. And you're right, Tom, when you say a lot of ads or it's a bunch of list of demands, that doesn't work anymore. It's so competitive right now. If it's just a list of why or what I want, you're not gonna attract a lot of people. It's super competitive and you need to tell a story of why they need to come work for you and why you are the best company in town. And if you're not the best company in town, you need to learn to be the best company in town really fast. We're always telling people, we've been telling people that for at least the last, what, nine months or so now, Tom, that you have to be the best company to work for in your area. So at least the best cleaning company to work for, right? But you need to be top 10 best place to work for sure. And so, you know, one of my sayings is, I know I'm not the best job in Fort Myers or I know I'm not the best job in the world, but I know that I can be the best job in Fort Myers. Nice. Nice. So give me an example of writing a description of work or contribution in third person. So, I feel like I'm in high school English class. Say, I don't know what to put here. So sometimes we ask for cleaning text testimonials. So a cleaning technician's testimonial, like I love working here because, so you could ask for a cleaning technician's, like we ask for client testimonials or client reviews. So this would be like a cleaning tech review or testimonial. I think in my job ad, I have something like, it could be like, you know, come work for, come get trained by Marcy and Denise and learn some of the best tips and tricks in the industry, get trained by the top professionals, something in those terms. But here it could be a testimonial from a cleaning technician because it would be in their words, a third party. You know, this job rocks. Maybe since it's supposed to be third person because that's first person. So maybe you have to put like a little hyphen or put who said it or something so that it's clear that they said it, not you. Susie says, you know, Susie's been here 10 years or, you know.  So you know the whole process of what we've done with clients, everything from tracking a lead and automating the close, automating the lead process from the whole 20 days to close. We know our close rate with leads. We track all that. We know our client acquisition cost. It's, and we're so worried about client reviews, client testimonials. You take that whole concept and all that information. And what we're doing now is we're turning it to that employee side. Right. With- If I say an asterisk here, does that mean that that's required? I can't get by without. Yes. All right. And so I'm gonna say, Tom, because we know that we want high S people or high C people working for our companies that we wanna put those characteristics in there so that they're attracting high Ss and high Cs, right? So maybe stable would be good because that's one of the things that we're really looking for. Steady, another one for that high S. And then for our high Cs, maybe conscientious or even critical. Could you spell that for me or Miss Michigan spelling B chant? S-C. I'm glad I'm not the only person that can't spell. S-C-I-E-N. T-I-O-U-S. All right. All right. You can't be good at everything, love, H-I. Consistent, another good one, right? So you could have done consistent because you're not spelled out one time. I'm sorry. Yeah. All right. Don't give me too much credit. Maybe. So you could just copy and paste that whole, come join our friendly team, future ice cream assistant. This is an example we have in there. If you don't want to retight all that. Yeah. Stick it in there. So that's interesting. So do you have like users on, on the recruit outside of the house cleaning industry? Yes. We have a ton of different use. We have restaurants, bars, we have ice cream shop. We have plumbers, electricians, restoration, lawn care, landscaping, pest control, heavy machinery, like equipment, repair. So service-based companies? Yes. Restaurants, service-based. We just landed our largest account we have right now and they have a $15 million company with 180 technicians. Nice. So, but we do service way more, actually we service way more non-cleaning companies than we do cleaning. We started with cleaning. We have expanded. Out of that quickly. Only a quarter of our requirements are overwhelmed. Okay. Yes. Remember that little plus thing there, Tom? I'm on it. I recommend you just do like minimum. The things that are like make or break. Like I'm not hiring you if you don't have a license, so I have to have that on here. Yes. Right, because I don't even want to waste my time talking to people without licenses, right? Breathing. What about, Libby, what do you recommend as far as for people that want a clear drug test? They're like, I'm not hiring you if you don't have a clear drug test or a clear background check. Do you recommend that they put it here or wait? So, okay, that is a great question. Be very, very, very careful how you ask this question. It is illegal, technically, to ask this question in a certain form. I have a very good friend who's currently getting sued because they put this question on their application. And so one of the biggest pet peeves I have is the people that love to copy and paste other people's job ads. And so they did copy and paste a competitor's job ad and he just copied it and pasted it. And he's getting sued by someone that didn't even apply. They saw the job ad and in his state it discriminated against, it was a labor discrimination and he's being sued by the state for asking the background question. Could you share just so we know what state is that, Erin? Michigan, Michigan, I believe it's Michigan. But Tom, there are multiple states that you cannot ask about background until after they're hired. Right. So, those rules are changing constantly too. Yeah, so I highly, highly recommend, please, because this is, so I, me and Chris, Chris is a root recruit, he works in root group. There's our biggest pet peeve. If we catch our root recruit clients copying, pasting other people's ads, we're like, we won't post your ad.   We're not posting it until you write your ad.  But to be fair, Libby, I think that that doesn't help a ton of people because they don't know the stuff. Even if they did write it themselves, they might, the chances are good that they're still gonna write the same thing because they don't know that they can't. No, they don't know, but also that's not going to do you any justice because you're not attracting the right people to your job. So you're not gonna be happy about the results that are coming to your interviews. Yeah.  So just be careful with copying and pasting one because you don't know, but also be careful with certain questions, especially with COVID and the vaccination question because in Florida, you cannot discriminate against non-vaccinated people. It's a new law because people ask us every day in root recruit if we can add that to the job ad and we're like, no. Because depending on your state, like Tom says, it changes every day. Right. And so they just passed the law in Florida that if you're not vaccinated, you cannot be discriminated against. And the flip side, I guess the Supreme Court is telling employers who like in a healthcare setting is getting Medicare or Medicaid money that your people have to be vaccinated. So I guess my takeaway from all this is when in doubt, just don't put the application in writing. You know, don't question writing on your application on the internet where there's proof. Yeah, where people are looking for lawsuits have pretty good software that they can crawl everything that's on the internet, just looking for those opportunities. Yes. So we have some ideas of what those things are. So you gave a couple right there, COVID, right? COVID vaccination statuses, you must be 21. You cannot ask that or require it unless your insurance requires it. So we have a ton of people, especially in the cleaning industry who says, I don't want to hire anybody unless they're 21 because I don't like young people. Well, just because you don't like young people doesn't mean you can discriminate against them and put it on your application. Yeah. So unless you're like a bar and you can't hire people under 21 because they can't serve alcohol, you cannot put that on your application or I'm sorry, your ad. 21 over that type of thing. That type of thing. So unless it's a requirement through your insurance, it cannot be on there. Sometimes I feel like I got to go to HR classes to stay up to date with legal compliance. So you can't put those things on there. So it's the, must be 21. You can require that, yes, if your insurance requires it. The background check. Now you cannot take my word because I don't know what state you're in but the people that I know that are getting sued, it wasn't what he asked, it was how he asked it. Good, good to know. So that's the timing thing in this case. It was how he asked it, like the actual word. It's, must be able to pass a background check. No, it's are you willing and able to, are you willing and able to undergo a criminal background check? And just to be clear, these rules are different in every state, none of us are attorneys here. So basically what Libby shared with you is it's a really good idea to take your application and then any ads you're running is bigger than your application. Your ad copy arguably should be run by a labor attorney in your state as well. So is that what I'm hearing? Yes, so if I were you, I wouldn't even put it in your ad because you're more at risk to have it in your ad than in your application. But you're not, you're what you're putting in there. So go up a little bit, Tom. Here's another example of where you could get yourself in trouble and have zero idea. Where you have Monday through Friday, nine to five with occasional Saturdays, that could get you in trouble in some areas. That could cause you trouble. Because you're, go ahead, Tom. No, it's just, this is, I learn things every day. And I'm learning something here because I would never coach somebody to say, hey, you need to take all your classified ads, all your recruiting ads, I'm running by an attorney, but I'm running this down. Or at least by your HR expert, right? It does stay on top of this. And that's what they do for a living. And that's what we do. You know where I am on the spectrum of. I do. Cover your butt, I do. Yeah, so, I will tell you, indeed we'll help you stay compliant because they will flag your ads sometimes, but it's really hard for them to flag the verbiage in it. They only catch it because they use algorithms. So sometimes it gets flagged and you don't even know it. That's probably why you're not getting good results. So. Those are automations, getting back to automations. Okay, yes. So when we're talking about automations, what you're suggesting is you want to create an ad and then you wanna automate that ad and check your results every 48 hours. Make sure that you're getting the results that you want and then change it, modify it. And then as soon as you get the ad that's working for you, okay, now we're going to begin to automate our entire system. We've got our ad and now we're going to be doing more with the ad. Is that right? Is that what I'm hearing? So yes, and I suggest you change your ad on a regular basis. Okay, how long is regular? I would say probably at least once a quarter, change it out, rewrite it. Cause I'll give you a great example. People come in here and they're like, man, that one cleaning service must be horrible. They always, they're always hiring. They have the same ad up all the time. They must treat their employees like, they must treat their employees awful. Yeah. Not awesome. Not bad. Who would have thought? And I'm thinking from an owner, oh, they must be a great business. They're always hiring. But from the employee side, you're kind of like, oh, but if you're always running the same ad, it gets stale, it gets old. I've already seen it. I've already applied. I already know that one. I already, I already, I already, I just need to, I need to find something new and fresh. I still don't have a job. I need something new. Cause I'm trying to find the job makes perfect sense. Yeah. So rewriting it once a quarter, at least is great. Changing the verbiage, updating it. What we like to do is, or what I like to do is use words, use information from the interviews to rewrite my job ad. Great. So it stays relevant. The things that people say why they left their jobs is what I use in my job ad. Yeah. It's a great idea because especially I mean, I love that now more than ever before because we are seeing so much change in the collective thinking of applicants. Then we have seen historically, five years ago, you could pretty much say that your applicants wanted the same thing as they did seven years ago, 10 years ago, three years ago. But now what people want today is different than what they wanted even six months ago. Definitely different than what they were expecting a year ago, especially in terms of pay and this, there's a whole new movement on respect and being appreciated. And it's a different world out there. People are expecting more from the job. So I love that. I think that's like, I think that's probably one of the smartest tips I've heard in the last three months is get your verbiage for your ad from the people that are applying for your jobs. What are they saying they don't like and what are they saying they're looking for? So it's fine. All those questions that you ask, why did you leave your last job? What did you not like about it? Those are the key questions that you use to write your next ad. That's great. That's great.  Hey, no jerky managers here. Yes.  They just didn't even care anything about us. All right. Now you have some. You can have an endless amount of information. You know, like I'm looking for work-life balance. I'm looking for flexibility. I'm looking for stability. I'm looking for, you know, just you name it. And it's just a plethora of information you can have for your ad. And so it's out there and that's what everybody's saying. Right. Because sometimes we lose perspective as the owner when it comes to writing this ad. And so once you get that down and you get a good ad, the way I used to do it before when I would automate it, I would never check any of the applications or the resumes. I would simply make a template and you name it. If you have a paid Google account, you could make a template in Gmail, like a template email, or you can just make a template in Google, like a Google doc. And I would just literally copy and paste that email to everyone who applied for my job. And didn't even read any of the applications and invite everybody to an interview. And so are you saying that was great? You love that you did that. That was super smart or I highly recommend you stop doing that. No, that is part of those. That's kind of like an automated feature I did before I did Woot Recruit. Because I would just say that. Right. So if you don't have a program like Woot Recruit, at least have some systems that you can automate even if they're not fully automated where you're not your hands off with them, at least automate what you can automate. Yes. And so write yourself some templates and some. So you're not wasting any time reading applications and everybody's like, oh, but I don't want unqualified people to come. They're going to weed themselves out. They're not going to show up. They're not going to answer your email. Yeah. Molly wants to know, what do you think about group interviews, Libby? I like group interviews. I'm a fan, but you have to have an office. You have to have them set up right. And unfortunately with COVID, there's kind of hard to pull off right now. And so you like live group interviews, not a Zoom group interview. Yes, I like live group interviews. So with COVID, they're hard to pull off right now, but the number's so high. So I like live group interviews. You could do live group Zoom interviews. I've never done live group Zoom interviews, but I think you do them, right, Liz? Yep. We do that. Yep. So I'm a fan of stacking time blocking, using your time wisely. That's the whole point of automations, right? Yes. And something else that we were talking about today in one of our groups is that they were saying, a common struggle is the employees keep calling the office for the same things over and over again. And so the idea there is anything that you have to do more than once needs to not be done a third time, right? You've done it a second time. You need to put some sort of a process in place that you don't end up having to do that again. So in this case, when we're talking about recruiting, if you're having to do the same thing over and over again, you need to find a way to automate that in some way. Even if it's not through a program. I know we have also Sean's on here and he also is a huge fan, Sean Day, right? The same idea, we got to automate this stuff and make it happen automatically so that you are hands off and you're spending your time. We talked about last month working on your business and not in your business, right? You got to be spending more time doing that. And your time is limited and when you try to do all the things manually or even hire other people to do it, A, you're just spending a lot more money, you need to. And B, typically, you don't do it as much as you need to because you just don't have time to do it. Other things pop up and when it comes to recruiting and the whole formula that we were looking at earlier, if you aren't recruiting, you aren't growing your business because you're not going to have the people that you need to grow your business. And so one of the things I want to share about, a lot of people get very, give us a lot of pushback about the speed that, and Liz can contest it, the speed that we recruit can deliver sometimes. It makes a lot of people uncomfortable because it's kind of like on demand. You turn it on and you'll have interviews like the same day or within 24 hours. But the speed is your competitive edge at the moment. And the more obstacles you put in the way when it comes to hiring right now, you're going to cut your rate, your show rate by 50%. So you want to make it or more, you want to make it so easy. Like, I mean, not to get the job easy, but you want to make the process so easy. I was driving in the car with my son and I was talking on the phone to somebody about hiring and I hung up the phone and I was kind of frustrated. And I was like, man, why are we, why are so many people struggling? And you know, we're passing McDonald's and Home Depot and you know, and I said, look at all these places they can hire, they may be under staff, but they're open and they can hire and they do not pay as well as all of us do. And my 13 year old son looked at me and goes, mom, they make it so easy. I just got to walk in. Straight in the block. He goes, the sign says they'll hire me on the spot. I just got to walk in because we were like parked at McDonald's and I just got to walk in. And so I'm thinking, you're right, we're doing all these other things and we're making it so many processes and we're cutting our show rate because we're adding all of these steps and steps. So just look at your process and what does your process look like from an applicant standpoint and how complicated am I making it? And that's a right now thing. So I want to interject this thing because a lot of people out there are like, yeah, but you don't understand Liz that I have always done it this way where I require them to, you know, write me a letter and tell me why they want to work for us. And I require this and I require that. You know what? That was great. That was awesome back in the day when there were so many applicants and you had so many applicants to choose from that were great, that you had to find a way to weed them out. That was great. That's not today's scenario. And you have to change with the times. You have to base what you're doing today based on today's landscape, you know, our hiring landscape. And they've known this for years like on the marketing and sales side for like clients. I call it friction. And every time you ask like online booking, for instance, every question you ask, you diminish the amount of leads you're getting. So you want to make it really easy for people to get into your ecosystem anyway, so you can talk to them. You might make it a little bit hard before you actually, you know, offer them the job. You don't, you go into McDonald's, they don't just say, well, start, you know, here's an apron and a hat. I mean, they ask you a few questions, they make you go through a process, right? Actually, I'm just telling you right now, if you apply for a job at Taco Bell, if you apply, the person at the counter is given the authority to hire you to come to work tomorrow. So whoever's at- Not at that moment. It's like, are you ready to start right now? Come on here. Not at that, but everybody at the counter. You were hired yesterday, today's your first job. If anybody applies for a job, you tell them to come to work tomorrow. So they are essentially hiring every single person that comes in. Everybody has the authority to hire. But here's the thing, here's the thing, I can guarantee you, it's also a filter because not everybody's gonna show up tomorrow. Absolutely, absolutely, they're not gonna show up tomorrow. There's a lot of people that are like, what? I can't- That was too easy. I wouldn't work for a company that would hire me the next day. But the whole point is, today what we have to do is different than what we had to do a year ago. It's different. So yes, there was a lot of friction a year ago. It made sense to do that. It doesn't make sense to do that now. And Libby, you're in the business. You know, you're telling us as the expert that sees way more applications that are coming in, way more ads that are going out. You have a lot more data to look at to tell us the situation today. And in smart business moves, we always say, watch the data. What the data tells you to do. You have more data than we do currently in this environment and you're saying, simplify it, make it easy, make it fast. Make it easy, make it fast. Automate what you can because automations will make it faster. And like I said, if you don't have your process, get it down. Simply automate the small stuff you can. Stop trying to touch every person because you don't need to touch everybody yet until you get in front of them. Getting in front of them, whether it's in Zoom or in person, make it as fast as you can. Stop looking at every single thing. Create email templates for responses so they can be as fast as possible. And then my last, or not, I don't know if we're over yet, but my final piece of advice is if you wanna grow, please make hiring part of your administrative daily routine. I'm sure that Liz has heard me say this 100 million times. Please make it part of your daily routine. Even if you don't hire every day, even if you're not a large business, make it part of your daily routine. And everybody's like, what do you mean by that?  It's part of your administrative routine in your office. Not, oh my gosh, Suzy quit. We need to have, post your job ad. Now we're three weeks behind the game. We still got a trainer and I'm turning away jobs. Yeah, so standard operating procedure in your company needs to be that we are always hiring. Always hire. Always hiring. And if we're not hiring that person right now, we're at least always recruiting. Always recruiting, at least you're recruiting. Always. And so I was doing a presentation yesterday for a long care, for a long care group. And the guy said, well, what if I'm not hiring? What if my company's fully staffed? I was like, great question. So you're telling me that you don't wanna grow. You don't have any, you have no goals in growing the business. If a rockstar came in, you wouldn't hire them in up your marketing.  We are at the top of the hour. And this is awesome. We could talk about this probably. It's not right there. Yeah, so that's it. We, I dropped the link to recruit. Again, if you wanna know more about the product, I'm sure that you can hand them up there and Libby will be glad to give you a skinny. Got a lot of people here, Pam's a client. Getting a lot of awesome results. Me too, too. Yeah. We're done for the week, right? This is Wednesday? Yeah, we are. We are, we're gonna be back. Are we gonna be back Monday? Monday we're going to be back and we are going to be going live from Sunny Phoenix. All right, so Tom, I don't believe you'll be here next week. I'm gonna be out of pocket next week. But I will be here and we're going to have a little mini panel. On some processes for actually hiring. So you got your recruiting in, right? And so now what are some automations that you can use for hiring? That's what we're gonna do. We were gonna have Heather Canning, Samantha Snyder and Sarah Mitchell are going to join me from Phoenix. So Libby, thank you very much. This was fun. I love talking about automations and this is a great way to start the month. Awesome, thank you guys for having me. Yeah, and those tools too. Libby, you gave us two great tools that hopefully people go in there and use those tools, right? There, those are sometimes that little tiny thing. It's like, okay, good, that helps. That makes a difference. It doesn't have to be.  Libby, Libby got us doing that too. Change this little thing, tweak, tweak, tweak. So we'll see you guys Monday, bye-bye. Thanks again, Libby. Bye. Bye.


The DLC characters in the new Demon Slayer game are all insanely high quality, and one of the best examples of that being Guitaro. That's why today I decided to hop into some online ranked matches just to see his animations, only to find out this character might actually be busted. Mirror match! And the colors don't even look that different, this is gonna get confusing. Alright, mirror match! I'm pretty high-packed, but... Oh, I was the one on the side, this is gonna be so confusing. I'm like, I'm like beige pants. Oh, he's ma- he made a mistake. Never mind. Woo-hoo!   He thought he was nice! Bro thought he was- oh, I gotta win those. Alright, I'm new- I'm- I'm still- I'm- I'm getting my legs underneath me. I'm still learning the game. I wake up mash, I wake up mash, I always do. Okay, that was a horrible idea. I didn't think you would wake up counter-mash. I did not think you would counter the wake up mash strategy. He doesn't know I'm a different beast. He didn't! No, see, he thought I was a scrub! He thought I was a scrub! What? What are that winning? He thought I was a scrub. I was actually throwing round one. Purely for this reason. That's fine, we take those. We absolutely take those. Why would I not want to take those? Huge punish! Boomerang! Boomerang part two, we throw it out, we wait for him. That's what we learned, right? Come back, Boomerang! Is it come back or do I have to knock it hit? Yes! Boomerang! Let's go! That was sick!  That was crazy. The Boomerang goes crazy. Sit down. Sit down. Come out here. He thought I was a scrub! He thought I was a scrub for real. He wasn't ready for me. What did he just do? Is he going full burst? Why is he doing that? Sit down. Honestly, you need to sit down. Throw that out. I'm ready to get hit now. Oh, the Boomerang turned around perfectly. Watch this. Boomerang comes back out of combo with my ult. There it is! He was hitting hit. Whoa! What was that?   Let me go. Let's go. We're winning round two. He was trying to talk. All that talk too. He doesn't know about demon mode. Oh, he's trying to run. He's trying to run. You got to dodge. You got to dodge. You have to. Oh, but then he just goes right back into being countered. Full combo on this. Then I'm going to set up the Boomerang. Once he goes down for the count like that. Set up Boomerang. Oh, you need Boomerang to miss. He definitely did that. No. Oh, he tried it. Boomerang. Shit. What if it did Boomerang back though? Boomerang, come back. Oh, I broke his guard. That was actually kind of clean looking though. Boomerang part two. You thought I wouldn't hit it if I tried three times. Quick dash. Quick math. Knock him into the air. This super looks so good. I do regret not transforming though, if I'm being honest. But this is fine. I have to throw it on purpose. I have to throw it. Hopefully he dashes away from that. I want him to dodge it. Oh, he almost died for that. Are you going to dash me, I parry?   He didn't know I was good luck. He didn't know I was godlike. He didn't know I was godlike at the game. That was a clean character. This character, the Boomerang move is so fun. Win animation. You're not in. Woohoo. Yeah, my man is looking good. He is nice at the game. I need the phone to laugh. He was like, I'm not doing this. This is apparently somebody from the chat. All right, Laura, accurate match. We're going in. Damn. He's seen my entire playstyle though. No, I counted those. Sorry, but I'm not going to fall for that. Oh, grab. What's the grab animation? Okay, it's pretty basic. I'm not going to lie. Oh, he doesn't have enough bar to get away. Oh, I was going for the grab reset. I was. It was getting a bit cheeky. I wanted the grab reset pretty badly. The image. Pondro, relax. Relax. No. Oh, I can't respect that. You're not going to swap out. Oh, he didn't swap out. So he's got to catch the poison to the phase. I'm back flipping. I'm doing everything that I need to do just to get this win. Take another poison boomerang. Take another poison boomerang. Oh, he blocked it. That's actually the worst outcome for me. I really want that move to miss. It's so strong. Whoa. No clash. I probably lose this match. We're just pretty, we're pretty behind. Wait, wait, wait. Don't say it's over till it's over. Oh, no. Get out of there. Yes. Just in time. I want to win this so bad. I'm just going to throw it. I made it. I don't know where those sickles went, but they did not get Tondra out. Damn it. I really thought that was the one. I get back it up. Poison. He dodged it. Oh, grab. He was so worried about the poison. He didn't think about the grab. Because the poison still exists on the field. That would be possible. It doesn't. It made a good balancing decision. That would be busted if the poison stayed after a grab. This is the cheapest character in the game. That is pressure that the world does not need to have. Poison darts to come back and that. Also sit on the ground for the control. Also hold this poison cross. Oh, he blocked it. Oh, that should have hit. The grab looks like it has a little more range to it than it does. Okay. Huge assist. Can't see anything on my screen. And I get ultimate art level three. Okay. A little unnecessary. Eat it up. Eat it up. Eat it up. Don't do the damage. That's nothing. That is nothing for a demon. In fact, I'm just going to recover most of it anyway. Boom. No, the guard skill didn't work. Please get off me. Whoa. Where are you looking? Oh, he's dead. He's dead. He got caught stranded with no guard, no way to get out. That's going to be Utahra just taking it for the win. 2-0. 2-0. I mean 2-1. 2-1. That's a possible chance here. All I need is one chance. This character is so sick. All I need is one chance. Hit the cross. Yes. Yes. And we get that off the poison as well. Oh. He might not get another chance. That was crazy. Oh, here. Hold these for me, bro. Oh. I like that it does damage on the block there. Hey. Hold these. Tangerote. Oh. He's thinking about dying though. He's thinking about it. Anyway, you can't dodge this. Wait. He's eating it. Welcome to hell, bro. Right arm. Look at it.  This is crazy. This character is nuts. GGs, GGs.  Do we get the run back? Run back. Oh, we do. All right. Utahra is back. I'm going to start with the poison cross this time. Most broken move in the game when it misses. The move needs to miss to be broken, I think. But it does a decent amount of damage anyway. Poison cross. He broke the guard. Oh, the guard is broken. He had to block it, but that still wasn't the right choice. Playing against Utahra is like taking a multiple choice question test with a pen. Every answer is just going to be registered as wrong. It's crazy. I just hit both of the assists anyway. Actually nuts. There just is no right answer. He beat Matt. Okay. He's going after him. He's going after him. Oh, the chase down. I am cooking. The chase down is nuts. Just kidding. I tried to do the guard move. It didn't work. It's not invincible. It's definitely not invincible. Oh, I'm just getting both of them. The Demon Slayers have met their mats, to be honest. I don't know if the Demon Slayer Corp can take on Utahra in this game. Damn, I might not even be able to say his name right, but I can play the character role. I don't want to waste my poison. Maybe I should have, though. This is a big game. The only reason I did that was because I thought I had to open this. Hold this. Hopefully the level two is enough to kill, especially with the poison. No way should he let this. Oh, I'm all over him. I'm all over him, securing the game to win. Come on, come on. It wasn't even close enough. It wasn't even close enough. Yes. Clean. Air super. That's going to lock it up. All right, because he's charging me again. Go ahead. Do what you got to do. Oh, rampant arc. Do it again. You can hold that. You really can hold that. Somebody told me you can hold that. I just didn't believe it, just because why would you be able to do that? Your guard's broken. Oh, they just gave this character all the fun stuff. They just said, yeah, if you're going to play, I'm just going to ask you what you got to do. Catch this, Tanjiro. It was a trick question. You can't catch that. It would break your guard. Let's go. Tanjiro, hit me. Hit me real quick. Don't try to grab me. Cheater. Oh, my head. Oh, my pimp. I didn't expect to grab. I thought I had him. I was going to knock him back and throw the ultimate. He's smart. He's smart. He's smart. He knows what he's doing, except he doesn't. Take this poison cross. Take it, part two. No, he got to me too fast. I got reset. I got reset. That's too much damage this game over. It's round over, unfortunately. It is what it is. It just is what it is. Sometimes you've got to lose a round. Sometimes you have to lose a round to win the next one. I thought we were alive. That is AOK with me. I can bring it back. Whoa, whoa. Why is he jumping at me like that? Stop that. Yes, somehow. Oh, we're right on. This is going to be a big lead. I'm trying to get him to wake up block. Crazy. Crazy that you can do that. Also, this time, it is definitely optimal just to do this. Whoa. Oh, too bad my blocks don't count as that. That was good decision by him, actually. So do I get my, I do. I get my dodge back with this. He never had a shot of winning. Look, I can just hold him on the ground and make him block. Now I can escape again. Now I can do the exact same thing again. Oh, he was right outside the block range, but he got scared. Oh, no. It made him jump. He got a little too jumpy. I missed though. I would have lost. I would have lost, but we actually got away with an insanely lucky win there. S-rank. I think that's a little generous of the game to give his S-rank, but I'll take it. Whoo. We got a free hit early. Taste down. Okay. I got a little greedy. I got a little greedy. He jumped out. The jump out loses a lot of our damage potential, to be honest. Oh, and sometimes we just get lucky and he doesn't block. He thought he could get away with some cheap stuff. Combos? Combos? Can we go ahead and get the full combo? Nope, not this time. Wait, wake up.  Whoa. Whoa. He brought up the Hashira. Hey, Tengen, hold these. Oh, he held those pretty well. He did a great job of catching those. This man is a Hashira for a reason. Oh, he got caught though. He got caught. That's game. That's game for him. Nice. That's game. Hold him down. Hold him down. Hold him down. I didn't get... Okay. Big poison combo. Hold the poison cross. He hit me before the cross hit. That's bad. Poison X. My best move. Oh, no. He's going for the win. This move is still my favorite though. I'm going to be honest. This ultimate is still my favorite that I've seen so far. Damn, that is big. Ha ha. That ultimate's so good. Ha ha. Whoa. Relax with that. I was mashing. I was mashing. I thought I was onto something. Oh, nice grab. He's kind of going nuts here. I'm going to do it. I'm going to burst. All right. That's going to let us heal a little bit. He's got to escape now if he wants to win. We're in the driver's seat for sure. Oh, he just threw it away. He got scared. He thought he could go for the win there with the opening, but it wasn't a real opening. There are no openings against this DLC character. He's broken. This is the pay-to-win. First pay-to-win character in video game history. Oh, nice grab. I was not expecting that. This is a very canon matchup. This is a very canon way for these two to bully me. These two just think they can jump, gang up on guitar, and I'm just going to let that happen. That's going to happen. I dodged it. I had to burst the dodge it, but it was worth it. I wanted to win. I can't lose. I refuse to lose even a single game. I'm not losing a single game in the last round. The resets went nuts. The poison was too much. All right. One last match is Gitarra. I need to win. Take this poison cross. Really? Really? I'm going to make you dodge that. He jumped it. The OP move is in effect. Look at this combo. Look at this damage. I'm leading him right back to it. Poison David's on mark. Woo-hoo. And it's just in time to get another one. I still got one. There's still one out here. Look, he's trying to do his offensive combo. But guess what? In the end, I always win.  I got, I got to let him know. Oh, I got to let him know. You can't block this. Rampage R. Oh, my God. He just beat everything. He beats everything. How is this character fair? Hold this. Oh, your assist pellet for you. What's it like to have friends, bro? Nobody would come tank up move for me, except for my own poison. I have to rely on my own poison. Oh, that was kind of smooth. We got behind him. Dodged the attack. Now we're just in the driver's seat. That was a very less combo.  His character can't seem to find the right direction. Wow, that didn't affect his block at all. Oh, no. Oh, no. What a comeback. He's sick. That was cannon. That was cannon. Is he playing Godspeed? He's playing Godspeed, Zenitsu. No, no, no, no, no. No, stop, stop, stop. Stop. I really wanted to win. Catch this, Zenitsu. He didn't fall for it. Catch this part two. Looks like you're wide open for catch this part three. What? How did he survive that? Oh, he used his block. Maybe. Oh, I just pulled out. Poison, come back. It was on its way back, but I couldn't wait long enough. I just had to win. I just had to win. He dashes in. Wow, he's so fast. He's too fast. I wasn't supposed to block that. I wasn't supposed to block that at all. There was no way I was blocking that. That simply was not ever going to be an option. But I will take this one. The damage is good. That's the kind of damage that adds up. Don't dash him. Oh, that's not good. Oh, that's not good either. Oh, my God. He's got combos. He's got Godspeed combos. He's got Godspeed combos, but he does have Godspeed defense. That's all we need. All we needed was an opening to land the ultimate, and I found the opening. I always collect fast speed. It's time to collect. Boom. This character is nuts. All right, one more match with this Hashira. He's good. I like him. The comeback he pulled off was nuts, so I just got to do something equally as crazy. I just have to equally play as good. Right now he's kind of in a bad position because he can't switch out, but hey, the better position for me. That was actually bad. I didn't have enough meter to do what I was trying to do. Oh, he caught me running away. I was scampering away. No, I was just trying to survive. I just need one more hit, one more hit, one more hit. Oh, the hit could be anything. I'll take a random skill used. I'll take a random skill used if that's what it has to be. Let me run back and block. He almost ran into it though. Oh, he did. Hey, hey, hey, I'm not even on the ground. Relax. What did my feet do to you? I'll take that random hit. Sometimes people just don't block, and you just got to be able to accept that. Piece of damage too. Except I back-stepped in my own death. I could escape right now, but I'm not going to unless he superes. He didn't. Oh, that looked like a grab. Oh, I've got to push off until I can grab. No, no, no. Get out of there, get out of there. Catch this. Yes, I'll take it. It was a waste of two bars, but I'll have to do it. He was wide open. I saw my chance to win the second round. I had to take it. What is going every- Trying to check his defense, trying to check his defense. Make it sure he's blocking. No, no, no. You got to block. He's still not- He technically didn't block that. Oh-ho-ho. Oh, he's going- He's going God speed. It doesn't matter to me. I just blocked. Oh, that's it. That's over. Maybe. You've got to dodge this. He can't dodge. He was trying to dodge, but the assist never came back. This is why I play demons, bro, because I can't rely on my friend. I'm out here. I can't. Yeah, the 3-0. I'll take it. I think that's enough guitar for me. It was worth it to come back. Yeah. I like that character.


All right. Hey everyone. So this video we're going to talk about the basics of our markdown. They're so simple that it shouldn't be too difficult, but I want to talk about how you get the system actually set up. So I will say I use Vim to compile our markdown. Most people who use it use RStudio. I'll talk about both options. But first, let's talk about basic installation. So if you don't have R installed, you do need R.  If you use Windows or Mac, you'll probably have to look at r-project.org, I think is the website. But the packages you're going to want to install is R. And the other thing is Pandoc Site Proc. I think that's it. Yeah, Pandoc Site Proc. So Pandoc Site Proc is the thing that our markdown uses for like making citations, like references if you have a bibliography file. So since I'm going to be writing papers and stuff in our markdown, that's the kind of stuff I want to have. So I've already installed both of these packages, but these are the ones you're going to want if, you know, you're using our markdown. So the other stuff that you're going to want to install is R specific packages, specifically R markdown, because we've installed R. If you run that command, but you need to install R markdown as well. So to do that, you want to go into R. It's probably the easiest way. So I like going into R as root, just because it'll install packages for every user. And also if it installs the default location for like user installation, it's like just the folder name R in your home directory, which is really ugly. It's not important, but you know, anyway. So when you're in R, you can just run the command install packages, and you're going to want R markdown. Just run that. It's already installed on my machine, but that's all you're going to need to run our markdown. The only other issue is how you're going to actually write the documents and stuff like that. So I'll go ahead and show you the more common way of compiling our markdown. And that is using R Studio, which is an IDE that you can just look up and download. I usually do not have it installed, but I decided to install it just to show you how it works, just because this is usually how people do it. So when you actually start the program up, let me get rid of this. So when you start the program up, it's going to look like this. You can start an R markdown file, just going to file, new file, oops, and R markdown. And just do whatever here. So you can basically write your document here. I'll go ahead and introduce you. Now I'll do the actual writing in the terminal, because that's the way I do it. But you can knit it here. That prepares it for, actually compiles it. So you can knit it to HTML or PDF. But this is how you do it's pretty simple in R Studio. I just don't like having a really big program. I find it easier to just do it in the terminal window. So I'll show you how to do that. So I use VIM. And in order to compile our markdown in the terminal, I have made a little VIM shortcut so that whenever I'm in an R markdown file, I can automatically compile it to PDF or HTML or whatever. And I'll put a link to this in the description. But the line that I put in my file is right here. So this maps F5 to the following command. It just literally runs a bash command. It echoes some stuff into R that tells it to actually render the file that we're in. That's all this is. So if you just copy this and put it in your VMRC, whenever you type F5 when you're in an R markdown file, it will compile it. So let's go ahead and actually get into how to actually write this language, which shouldn't take very long because it's a markdown language. It's super simple. So let's say rmarkdown.rmd. rmd is the typical ending for rmarkdown files. So you can have a, what's the word, a preface? What's the word? It starts with a P, prolog, whatever, the thing that's between hyphens, right? So you can have metadata up here. So I can say stuff like title. My first rmark, markdown document, author, Luke. And one thing that you're probably going to want to set is output. So I want this to output to a PDF document. So I just say PDF underscore document. Now I should say none of this is actually necessary. You don't need to do any of this. It's just I want this specifically as a PDF and I'll put title and author just for sake of example. But to actually compile a file, it's not like LaTeX where you have to have some code in there by default, just so LaTeX knows what to do. You don't need any of this in rmarkdown. So anyway, to actually write rmarkdown, it's pretty intuitive. You just type. And that's how you make your typical paragraph graphs and stuff like that. To make a line break, you need two returns. So these two sequences are going to be two different paragraphs, but this is not going to be a different sequence. So bullet point lists are with star. So you can make a list of different things. Or you can make a numbered list with numbers and stuff like that. But so section headings are with pound signs, hash tags, whatever you call it. So this is section heading. Or we can make a subsection, subsection with two of them or a sub subsection. So sub subsection. So you have italics. And to make italics, you just put whatever you want in in between two asterisks in between two stars. I always there's so many times in my videos, I messed up that word, but who cares? It should be renamed. So italics, you can have bold between two stars stuff like that. So I'm going to just go ahead and f5 and compile this. So I might have said it before, but by default, our markdown will compile to an HTML. But since we've specified a PDF document, it's going to be compiling to a PDF. So I'm going to go ahead and open this document here. So we have our section heading, all of it's nicely formatted. It's very reminiscent of the output of LaTeX or something like that. Now, speaking of LaTeX, you can put arbitrary bits of LaTeX code wherever you want in this document. So I can put a table of contents. So some LaTeX commands will not work on every kind of document. So I think if you compile this into an HTML file, a table of contents won't work, but it does work fine for PDFs. That's when you really need it. So you can do stuff like that. You can put pretty much arbitrary ticks, things, you can put pretty much anything you can do in LaTeX, you can do in our markdown. So one of the main reasons I started using our markdown is to be able to have code snippets and have them run automatically. So you just have three grave accents. What are those things called? I don't know. If you have three of those in between them, you can put snippets of code. So right here, I've designated this code as being R. So I can write just anything in R. So let's say I have like 56 raised to the 19th. Actually, let's put that in quotation marks and we'll multiply that by five or something like that. So that's valid R code. If I recompile that, it's not just going to compile what I wrote, it's actually going to run the commands in R. And it outputs a nice little answer here. So this is how you do it for specifically R code. You can also use other stuff. So let's say you have some Python code that you want to throw in here or something. So I can just say Python and we'll say something like what are we going to say? So x or z equals, you know, is a list with some numbers in it for y and z print y times five, something really simple. So if you want to run Python, let's see if that actually works. I think you need an extra package for it. I think, yeah, I have an installed. So the package you want, if you want to install run Python code, for example, you have to install it in R itself. All you have to do is, excuse me, install, actually I wrote it down, reticulate, install package is reticulate and just install that. I already got it, but that's just so you know. So R Markdown again has sort of the perks of LaTeX. You also have this code that you can run inside of it. Now the other thing, again, as I mentioned before, I can output this just as well to HTML. So if I just delete this by default R renders to HTML. So I can now actually open my file here. And you will see that I have a very nice formatted when it comes up. There it is. Okay. So here is a R Markdown document. Actually the default CSS is pretty decent. This is a very readable website. So you can just as easily have HTML files or PDF files or whatever you want. So the last thing, so we talked about the LaTeX code, we talked about actually running things, how you do it, we talked about the packages to install. The last thing I think is pretty important is actually citations. So if you're actually going to end up writing much of stuff in R Markdown, it's nice to be able to actually cite stuff you need for whatever. So I'm assuming if you're familiar with LaTeX, you know how to make a bibliography file. I have videos on it. You can check them out, but you can look them up yourself. But if you want to put in citations, actually let me go back to having a PDF. If you want to have citations, you first off have to tell it what bibliography file to use. So I'm going to say bibliography file, which is in Home, Luke, Documents, LaTeX, Unibib. So in order to actually cite things, this syntax is actually super simple. So I can say, I can do, let's see, Chomsky 2000. Just run that by, and Chomsky 2000, of course, is whatever you happen to label your stuff as. And if you have Pandoc site proc in there, you'll notice that it does successfully compile. So here, it actually lists out whatever the citation is, and it will actually put the information here at the bottom.  I'm doing it as if this is a serious document. So you can also do this in different ways. So if you want a parenthetical citation, you can put it in the brackets or whatever. You can also do something, let's say you refer to the author in text. So I say something like, you know, my boy gnome, I can still say, if I put a negative sign in front of this, it's actually what it actually is going to do is actually put it in brackets, because that would make sense. It's going to omit the author's name. So that's if you refer to the author in text, or if it's obvious in the context or something like that. Give it a second. Okay, there we go. So now we have, yep, so we have normal citation, parenthetical citation and citation without the author name. And of course, we have it all down here. So anyway, that's really the basics. I did a bunch of videos on LaTeX, but if you know LaTeX, this is pretty much all you need to get into our markdown. I said in the last video, I think I'm going to start using our markdown as a main, a daily driver, as they call it. I don't know why they call it that. I think it's for people who have multiple cars or something. I don't know. I don't know. A lot of Linux people say daily driver, but whatever. So anyway, that's all the basics of our markdown. Just throwing it out there. I'm going to be doing a series on our stick around for it. And I'll be putting up more videos on different stuff anyway. So do you guys next time.