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Acquiring the right talent is the most important key to growth.

7 tips how to effectively recruit and hire people to your team.

Lukasz Krzyzek
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5 min readAug 10, 2021

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During discussions about high-performing teams, we’re talking a lot of about coaching, mentoring, external trainings or facilitating workshops, but still forgetting about the other activity that can save companies a lot of time and money invested in building teams if it’s done right — RECRUITMENT.

“Acquiring the right talent is the most important key to growth. Hiring was-and still is- the most important thing we do.” — Marc Bennioff, CEO Salesforce.

Hiring the appropriate people to your organization, it’s one of the most important aspect of building effective teams and delivering successful products. Recruiting as the other skills can be mastered through learning and practice. Here are the 7 tips how to improve your recruitment process and increase the chances of hiring the best people to your team.

1. Check the Team Fit.

Hiring people whose values, beliefs fit the spectrum of characteristics and behaviours of your team, would improve the group cohesion and strengthen the culture of the team. One of the best way to check Team Fit is to involve the current team members in the interviewing process. By solving tasks…

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Lukasz Krzyzek
Agile Insider

Scrum Master — PSM III | I’m writing about pragmatic agile, working in dev teams and product ownership. | 100k+ views.