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 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...

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.  

The Theory of Everything… In Recruiting

Can you think of how Stephen Hawking and his expertise as a cosmologist, physicist, and professional quote-maker relate to recruiting?  Me neither.  But in honor of his life and all his accomplishments, I’d like to give it a try.  We are all a part...

Planning Ahead vs. Winging It

As a recruiter you may find yourself working on multiple jobs in various locations at any given time.  

Being able to juggle various roles, companies and personalities can lead to some interesting phone calls.

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...

Get Engaged! How to Keep Your Candidate Pool Happy

When it comes to recruiting, especially at the corporate level, emphasis has shifted from focusing on a role to the company pipeline.  This means, instead of waiting for a role to open to start your recruiting/sourcing process from scratch, you dip...

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...

Three Sourcing Tips for Recruiting Your Team

With football season a few weeks away, I have started to think about my fantasy draft picks. And how much goes into building your fantasy team.  You have to look at stats, best averages, injuries, sacks, TD’s, EVERTHING.  And as a recruiter it got...

Talent is Here

First off, if you haven’t seen Game of Thrones, then you should go watch it. Right now. This TV show is mostly known for their amazing battle scenes and the fight for the Iron Throne. We see the characters building their army and continuing saying...