I’m not a huge fan of job boards. Their efficacy as a source of talent has deteriorated over the years and most of them have been unable to innovate quickly enough to maintain their value. Niche job boards have emerged as stronger players because they focus on particular areas of interest and can drive a […]
What’s Most Important to YOU as a Candidate?
When looking for work (whether actively or just nosing around), what’s most important to you when looking into the company? I’m interested in your priorities about the specific job as well, but just as interested in your priorities around the company. What would you like to ask an interviewer given the chance? What would you […]
A Systematic Strategy for Sourcing Startup Talent
Companies with the best record and most success at hiring top people don’t sit around and wait for those people to show up. They go out and grab them by the throats. OK, it’s fair to say that grabbing someone by the throat and dragging them to your office for a job isn’t going to […]
8 Questions to Ask When Interviewing at a Startup
Job interviews are meant to be conversations. The interviewer asks some questions and the interviewee does the same. It’s never a good sign when an interviewee doesn’t have any questions. It shows a lack of interest. This is particularly true when interviewing for a startup job because there tend to be so many more unknowns […]
Hiring a Ruby on Rails Developer for a New Startup
So here’s the scoop — I’m starting a new company. I can’t tell you the name (don’t have one), and can’t tell you what it’s about (not ready). I also can’t tell you who is involved (except for me, of course). I can tell you that it will have a strong mobile component. I realize […]
8 Things to Look for When Hiring Startup Talent
Once you have an aggressive system in place for building a recruiting magnet and sourcing talent you need to have a clear sense of what to look for in each potential candidate. When initially sourcing, you don’t need to spend a ton of time reviewing people’s profiles, analyzing resumes, etc. You just find interesting people […]
10 Steps to Successfully Sourcing and Recruiting Startup Talent
Hiring people remains one of the biggest challenges and mysteries for startups. Since most CEOs and founders aren’t trained recruiters, they generally have very little idea about how to recruit properly. And because they’re so busy running their startups, they rarely invest enough time in the recruiting process. Hiring at startups is extremely difficult Even […]
How to Turn Your Company into a Recruiting Magnet
Recently I presented at the Guelph Technology Economy Conference on the subject of recruitment. I put together the presentation built off of two posts I had written – The Future of Recruiting is Inbound and The Key to Startup Hiring: Build a Magnet. It went well (I think!) and was fun to do. Public speaking […]
The Future of Recruiting is Trust Agents
I’m currently in the middle of reading Trust Agents by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith. Combined with reading Inbound Marketing I can’t help but think more about how inbound marketing and trust are related to recruiting. The reality is that the future of recruiting is trust agents. Trust agents are experts at relationship building, personal […]
The Future of Recruiting is Inbound
Successful recruiting is more complicated than most people realize (except for those who are actively recruiting on a daily basis). Getting a ton of applicants is easy. Hiring people is easy. But successful recruiting isn’t. Successful recruiting means a few things: Maximizing tight budgets to use money wisely in attracting people. Attracting the highest quality […]
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