6 Posts of Hiring Gyaan For Startups
For a lot of startups hiring can be tiresome job. Unlike big firms, you don’t often find people lining up at your door front for work, and even if by chance you do, one doesn’t find the perfect skills on display. The reason of course being good talent is costly, hard to find and in all probability are happy somewhere because they are good..on a general note. However, this doesn’t meant startups don’t have the right to have good talents on board, on the contrary most startups who go on to become successful do so because of a very strong initial team (beyond the co-founders).
The question however is how does one do that? Now instead of my own personal views, I thought of listing a few posts that I found to offer some valuable advise. It won’t bring the best talent to you, but will certainly make finding and building a team much easier.
1. Startup Reactor: 8 Tips for Startup Hiring Success
Get everyone involved in the hiring process. Hiring people can’t be done solely by HR. Heck, when you’re starting out, you probably don’t even have an HR department. So who is responsible for hiring? The simple answer: everyone.
2. Insider’s tips on hiring at a startup
First, tell the people you want how wonderful you think they are and why the business must have them. “Fill ‘em full of Kool-aid!” was Kip’s motto. Practice this at home until you can manage not to look possessed. Then, emphasize what a superb opportunity the company represents and how lucky, how incomprehensibly lucky, they are to have the chance to be a founding member of the organization
3. Hire IQ: 7 hiring tips for startups
Great companies hire great people:
Young companies worry about money. Smart ones think about value. Too many startups resist hiring a superstar because it’s not in the budget. But what happens when the competition gets him instead?
4. The College Startup Guide to Hiring
Hire workers contractually, not as employees. If you’re a college student like me, odds are you don’t have funds to spare for social security and other benefits when you’re taking on extra help. Make the position a part-time independent contractor position. This allows you to hire someone’s services without all the technicalities required for companies hiring employees
Eric from Canada e-mailed me the following question:
How exactly would you answer the question: “why should I work for your company when there is a bigger company offering me a great salary?”
I found that just listening to what the employee really wants and being flexible in how you structure the offer and the job can be very effective.
6. Small business employee hiring tips
This was a video post, so I figured instead of embedding the video here it would be better to simply link to the post and send the guys SBTV some WAT traffic.
There you go, there is the small list of big hiring tips. And if you are a startup or are looking to get into one, you can always drop in at WATJob.com as well. (Been a while since that came out )
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Maneesh
Is this a original post ? From your posting
“odds are you don’t have funds to spare for social security and other benefits ”
This does apply to Indian context.
Hey Vinay..
No this isn’t..I have excerpted paragraphs from individual posts that have been linked to give an idea on what those posts contain.. this is a simple list post of links to some good resources