Recap:

Genevieve Cruz (Recruiting Manager @ Binc) + Gregarious Narain (Serial Entrepreneur, TechStars Advisor) helped walk us through how to set the stage for a successful hiring process.

Big thanks to Genevieve and Gregarious for their insights!

Some of my favorite tips:

• Use your company values to guide the hiring process

• These early hires steer the culture and values of your company

• Be open to augmenting your company’s values based on the collection of people you’re assembling

• Wait until you’re in real pain. Make sure there will be sustained work and need for a hire before adding to your team in such a long-term way, and not just a short-term annoyance you’d like help with.

• Determine who will be doing the interviews in advance

• Include cross-functional roles in the process

• Work together to determine exactly what you’re looking for in this hire, and build out interview questions (and ideally a rubric) to score candidates on answers.

• Time kills all deals. Lots of factors in play, but the best hiring happens within a month form start to finish. Plan your hires when you will have a full month to focus on this project.

Join us Tuesday 6/16 from 1-1:30pm PST to learn about Filling the Funnel:

Featuring: Ashley Connell (CEO, Founder @ Prowess Project) + Tammy Dain (CEO, Co-Founder @ Rabble Recruiting)

• Defining Success

• Targeted Job Descriptions

• Sources and Networks

• Messaging

• Reputation

Register for the full series: tinyurl.com/hiring-series