Startup hiring is very distinct from hiring for a large company, which is what most hiring strategies are based on.
Firstly, as a startup, you can't afford to pay a headhunter a months salary. That money is better used for almost anything else, including buying pizza for a whole month for your new employee.
Second, you need to build in redundancy in your hiring strategy. If you have one position to fill, you have to hire at least two people to make sure you have at least one person in that position at any time. Startups have fewer positions to fill, but every person manning their station is critical.
Third and most critical, you can't afford to pay salaries high enough that candidates will be lining up to get hired. Even if you can, you shouldn't. Startups require employees who need to believe in delayed gratification. They need to think long term glory and wealth.
Which brings me to the hiring strategy. What you need in a startup are a class of people I call dreamers. They are typically smart, anarchistic people. And they flock together. So, all you need to do is find one of these dreamers and hire them. Put up posters in college canteens and college festivals to seek them out.
These dreamers are typically sportspersons, hackers, event organizers in college. They would most likely have high scores in one subject and low scores in the others. And they would either believe in your startup or they will not join.
There is an app called "SUPER" which features jobs in startups. It's for android users only.
But as a person who wanted to work in a startup there were many problems, you can just look for those solutions and turn them into hiring techniques.
1) no idea about the startups- what they do, how many people they have, what's the work culture there, what type of people they want.
You already did well by making a video. But you should also make an interactive website. And I have mailed about asking several questions about the startup to more than 30-40 startups. But I never got a reply. And yes I mean never. Why to include contact us option just to get my email and sell it to other people.
2) as startup requires already trained expert people but the level of expertise, and how do I know if I up for it or not. And even on google finding startups are very hard unless and until we have seen the name on different platform.
You can use different platforms, SEO is good but not effective in early stages, viral posts are much better, post this on Facebook or you tube and then see of this gets viral you will get lot of requests and people.
3) third and last a startup never comes out of it's place, they have their initial team and they always think people will come to them but I think going out at seminars with the team, going to colleges to talk about the culture at your place and inspire them to join you, it will be advertisement for you as well as inspiration for young people to work in a different culture than normal companies.
Firstly, as a startup, you can't afford to pay a headhunter a months salary. That money is better used for almost anything else, including buying pizza for a whole month for your new employee.
Second, you need to build in redundancy in your hiring strategy. If you have one position to fill, you have to hire at least two people to make sure you have at least one person in that position at any time. Startups have fewer positions to fill, but every person manning their station is critical.
Third and most critical, you can't afford to pay salaries high enough that candidates will be lining up to get hired. Even if you can, you shouldn't. Startups require employees who need to believe in delayed gratification. They need to think long term glory and wealth.
Which brings me to the hiring strategy. What you need in a startup are a class of people I call dreamers. They are typically smart, anarchistic people. And they flock together. So, all you need to do is find one of these dreamers and hire them. Put up posters in college canteens and college festivals to seek them out.
These dreamers are typically sportspersons, hackers, event organizers in college. They would most likely have high scores in one subject and low scores in the others. And they would either believe in your startup or they will not join.
There is an app called "SUPER" which features jobs in startups. It's for android users only.
But as a person who wanted to work in a startup there were many problems, you can just look for those solutions and turn them into hiring techniques.
1) no idea about the startups- what they do, how many people they have, what's the work culture there, what type of people they want.
You already did well by making a video. But you should also make an interactive website. And I have mailed about asking several questions about the startup to more than 30-40 startups. But I never got a reply. And yes I mean never. Why to include contact us option just to get my email and sell it to other people.
2) as startup requires already trained expert people but the level of expertise, and how do I know if I up for it or not. And even on google finding startups are very hard unless and until we have seen the name on different platform.
You can use different platforms, SEO is good but not effective in early stages, viral posts are much better, post this on Facebook or you tube and then see of this gets viral you will get lot of requests and people.
3) third and last a startup never comes out of it's place, they have their initial team and they always think people will come to them but I think going out at seminars with the team, going to colleges to talk about the culture at your place and inspire them to join you, it will be advertisement for you as well as inspiration for young people to work in a different culture than normal companies.
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