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How to Develop Your Hiring Strategy After Raising Your Series B

Matching every aspect of your talent acquisition strategy to meet the market demand for your product/service is the biggest challenge you'll face after raising your Series B funding.

How to Develop a Hiring Strategy After You Raise Your Series A

Your Series A funding is a validation of your vision, your early-stage product, and your marketplace reception. This is the ideal time to capture the interest of your founders and investors’ networks of colleagues, peers, friends, clients, and...

How to Set Up Your Hiring Process After You Get Seed Funding

For many early-stage startups, their limited hiring is unpredictable, ad hoc, and reactive. The founding team is focused on building/validating their product while considering funding options. Referrals are based on serendipity. There is no...

How to Hire After You Get Seed Funding

Hiring for early stage startups with seed funding is essentially an exercise in getting the best talent from the lowest possible spend. Every dollar should be spent knowing that each hire - both effective and ineffective - will have a profound...

How to Score the Candidates You Interview

You've learned what you should focus on when screening candidates. Now, let's take that information and put it in context so you can make actionable hiring decisions.

Four Focus Areas for Interviewing Candidates

We use four main focus areas when evaluating candidates and potential hires. Extracting insights based on these pillars should equip you with a deep understanding of each interviewee as you progress through your hiring process.  

How to Use Pre-Employment Tests During Your Hiring Process

The hiring process does not end with an interview; some employers might take additional steps to make their hiring processes more effective. These steps may include pre-employment testing, background checks, reference checks or a medical screening.

May the Force Be With You, Recruiter

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, we were introduced to an amazing adventure between light and darkness. As many of you know, the Star Wars franchise became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon exploring good and evil. However, I never...

How to Pre-Close & Make Sure the Candidate Says Yes to Your Offer

I recently reached out to a candidate to pre-close him before an offer. He was most appreciative of this call. It strengthened our communication and trust level, addressed concerns and salary questions and was an important step in securing a great...

Class of 2018: Here's Your Checklist to Getting a Job

Here’s a quick 5-point checklist for soon-to-be college graduates!