Five Unconventional Hiring Tips for Startup Founders
We went from 3 to 20 employees. Finding the right people to hire is tough. Convincing the right people to join your company is even tougher.
Finding the right people to hire is tough. You want talented and motivated people, who bring diversity into your team but at the same time are a good fit with your company culture. You also absolutely want to avoid a hiring mistake as it’s even more costly than being short-staffed.
Convincing the right people to join your company is even tougher. Most of the profiles you will need are likely to be in candidate-driven markets. This means everyone you talk to has an abundance of other job openings to choose from — usually better paid and not as boring as you’d like to believe.
I’ve spent a lot of time hiring in the past year and I developed a few tricks that some might consider slightly unconventional. They have proven helpful to improve Monito’s hiring game and rise up to the challenge.
#1 — Let the candidate decide if there is a “good fit”
The hiring best-practices I read when I first started taught me what signs to look for and what questions to ask in order to assess whether a candidate…
