The key distinction here is between culture and values. You don’t need people to fit your culture – but you do need them to reflect your values. By Lauren Bacon (Author, The Boss of You) One of the real challenges of diversifying your team is that – at the risk of stating the obvious – [...]
Posts Tagged "Hiring"
5 Questions To Ask Yourself Before Joining A Startup
January 15, 2013 – 8:00 am
You have to ask yourself about the company that you are joining and the role that you are planning to take. This requires you to be introspective in understanding where your personal strengths fit in the overall goal of the company. By Lien Nguyen (Co-Founder, Joy de Jewels) I started my working career at Intel [...]
Startup Hiring Room
November 8, 2012 – 5:00 am
We’ve worked hard to ensure that women and other people typically under-represented at entrepreneurship conferences are very much a part of this event By Sarah Milstein (Co-Host, The Lean Startup Conference) What do startups need most these days? Great people to hire. To help young companies find strong candidates, The Lean Startup Conference is hosting [...]
The Recruiter Honeypot
June 27, 2012 – 10:44 am
“External recruiters are an inevitable necessity for startups. But after seeing all of the emails that those external recruiters generated in subsequent years, I wish Meebo had switched to in-house recruiting sooner.” By Elaine Wherry (Co-Founder, Meebo) In late 2009, I created an online persona named Pete London – a self-described JavaScript ninja – to [...]
Looking For A ‘Partner in Crime’ At Intel Capital
June 8, 2012 – 11:00 am
You complement our diverse crew (a FEM of 67!) with collective experiences ranging from serial entrepreneur < -> seed investor < -> investment banker. By Christine Herron (Director, Intel Capital) We recently announced that Intel Capital Director Baris Aksoy is headed to Turkey to lead our new Istanbul office. As suspected, this means that we [...]
Recruiting Tips For Employers From Successful Small Tech Firms
May 29, 2012 – 1:00 pm
Recruit the whole person, not just the geek. By John Rossheim (Monster Senior Contributing Writer, STL Today) “Motivated people want to know that their role is crafted for their skill set and growth and personality,” says Julia Hu, CEO of Lark, a 2-year-old company in Mountain View, Calif., which markets a wearable silent alarm clock [...]
In War For Talent, “Brogrammers” Will Be Losers
May 11, 2012 – 8:00 am
“The rise of the brogrammer joke and its ensuing backlash has some benefits: It helps talented women choose worthy employers, it gives a name and face to a problem that plagues the industry and it publicly shames some of the most sexist offenders.” By Gina Trapani (Founder, ThinkUp) In 1999, Google’s Marissa Mayer almost didn’t [...]
How We Hire: Interviewing, Contracting The First Startup Employees
May 3, 2012 – 11:00 am
A week-long contract with a potential employee is enough time to assess whether you want to hire. By Elizabeth Yin (Co-Founder, LaunchBit) Making our first full-time hire was really nerve-wracking. Finding someone really sharp AND would fit in super well was going to be a challenge. So for full-time candidates, we’ve adopted what companies like [...]
How To Get Hired Doing What You Actually Love
May 2, 2012 – 1:00 pm
Sharing brilliance to be better young entrepreneurs. By Kelly Azevedo (Contributing Blogger, Young Entrepreneurs Council) A recent Pew study reveals what many of us have already observed: re-employed workers — those who lose their jobs and are then hired elsewhere — are more likely to consider themselves overqualified for what becomes their current position and [...]
The Label Or The Characteristic: CEOs And Marriage (Stereotypes)
March 20, 2012 – 8:00 am
The problem with looking at a demographic label rather than a person’s individual characteristics. By Laura Yecies (CEO, SugarSync) This headline caught my eye last week: “The Marriage Plot: Single CEOs Make for Riskier Investments”. The CNNMoney article summarized a study conducted by two Wharton professors and released by the National Bureau of Economic Research. [...]
