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@DAVESCHAPPELL
HIRING FOR STARTUPS
500 STARTUPS – MAY 6, 2014
Слайд 2WHAT?
Primary:
Recruiting/Interviewing Tips
Secondary:
Focus on Customer
Be Great at 1 Thing
Hire Slow(er)
Слайд 5READ: HTTP://BITLY.COM/INTERVIEW-NEIL
Know what you’re hiring for
Know what you’re going to ask
Take
notes
Have an opinion & back it up
Слайд 6WHAT MAKES A STARTUP’S CULTURE?
Слайд 8NICE TO HAVES MUST HAVES
Rails/Ruby
Android
3 Years PM
…
Passion
Customer
Focus
Work Ethic
Certain Skills
Слайд 10BEHAVIORAL QUESTIONS
Give me an example of a time you:
… blew a
customer away? (Customer Obsession)
… delivered a key project under deadline? (Deliver Results)
… improved a process of co-worker(Invent and Simplify)
Dig:
What did YOU do?
How did you know it worked/didn’t?
What could you have done better? Or, did you, in future?
Give me another
Слайд 11FAVORITE OTHER AREAS
Beginning
What did you do to prepare for this interview?
What
are three ways we should improve our product, to blow away our customer?
End
3 Adjectives people use to describe you
Give examples of what you’ve done
Give them time for questions
Suster: ”No. Curiosity. No. Job.”
Слайд 12WHERE DO YOU FIND STARS?
Friends/FOFss
Referrals
Past employers/ees
Networking/parties
Craigslist +
Word of Mouth
ABR (always be
recruiting)
Слайд 13OTHER TIPS/TRICKS
Interview cheat sheet (txt file)
Don’t walk thru resume (lazy)
Take lots
of notes & type up interview
Interview many candidates at once
4-6 interviewers (key employees, board)
Assign areas of focus to interviewers
Everyone log ‘votes’ before you meet
Schedule in-person debrief with everyone
Слайд 14CHECK REFERENCES?
Yes, eyes wide open
Look for great
Probe on anything where not
raving
Find a way to talk to non-references
Read Mark Suster post:
http://bitly.com/improve-startup-hiring
Слайд 15ALL ELSE
When to Sell the Candidate?
Recruiters vs. in-House?
Referral Program?
Comp Levels
Слайд 161-SLIDE MINI-TOPICS
Customer conversations
Be Great at One Thing
Hiring too fast once funds
raised
Слайд 17WANT OTHER ADVICE?
@DaveSchappell
http://blog.nosnivelling.com
Mentor sessions tomorrow
AWS Activate benefits for 500Startups
This presentation borrowed
from:
http://twitter.com/#!/neilr
http://twitter.com/#!/msuster