Is your startup ready for your first hires?

Scaling your startup is definitely not an easy decision. Knowing when to hire can be hard, but the excitement of growth is extremely rewarding. After funding, the biggest challenge to startup growth is hiring – not having the right people, in the right roles, at the right time. To help you make smart, strategic hiring choices, and build a great startup team, we’re sharing our best tips.

“One hire can make or break the startup. It’s important to realize that joining a startup won’t be the right choice for everyone: for some, the opportunity will be exciting and challenging, but for other people, it is not an interesting one”.

You need to know:

  1. The ideal hire will be willing to work for what you’re willing to pay.
  2. Don’t look for perfect hires
  3. Start building your startup brand early, create the hiring buzz.
  4. Always start with your network when hiring the first few employees
  5. Don’t follow the traditional hiring process, break the rules and offer your best.
  6. Define your good-fit employee persona while screening and interviewing.
  7. Hire the best start-up recruiters to get your game up.

The end goal of your interviews is to enable you to select the candidate who is the best fit for the role, and for your startup team. The simplest, and most objective way to do this is to score your candidates based on culture fit, practical fit, and their work capabilities, based on your assessment of their practical task. 

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