Startup Hiring Guide: 5 Rules from an HR Expert | Dose 028

An HR expert’s hiring guide for startups and founders to find 10x employees.

Effective early stage startup hiring is a critical element that founders need to get right. If you’re wondering how to hire for tech startups or how to hire for startups in general, you’re not alone. In this Dreamit Dose, we team up with HR expert Sarah Pillmore to get her insight on creating a hiring plan for startups, building your core team, and strategy to shape your startup hiring process. While startup hiring is an important functional role of startup HR, it presents a unique set of challenges for founders that haven’t done it before. How to hire talent for startups begins with understanding the key roles and responsibilities you’re missing. Any startup hiring guide should open by exploring and defining gaps to better understand exactly what needs to be done. Sarah provides a framework on recruiting for startups that includes where to find key hires for startups, interview hiring tips for startups, and hiring strategy for startups to win employees who can 10x. Building your startup team is very much an exercise in surrounding yourself with the type of folks who are 10xers. That’s hiring for startups in a quick 7-minute Dose!

00:00 - Intro
00:35 - What Needs To Be Done?
01:21 - Is It Really Full-Time?
01:55 - Where Will You Post It?
02:28 - Who Are You Looking For?
03:26 - How Do You Find 10Xers?
04:25 - Avoiding False Negatives?
05:27 - Are They A Culture Fit?
05:59 - Takeaways
06:37 - Outro

[stevebarsh]

Sarah - Thanks for sharing your awesome ideas and thinking with our Dreamit Dose audience! IMHO you added a ton of actionable value in < 7 mins. Love these tricks and traps! The startups you work with as a p/t Chief People Officer and Performance Coach are indeed very lucky!

[nelsonnigel]

Fabulous, this is good advice, I would love to see more about onboarding and culture but there is only so much you can say in 7 minutes. Hiring is one of the hardest things to do in an organization. Thank you, Sarah. Here is a related idea for a possible future video >>> "do the divorce before you do the marriage" >>> dissolution plans?

[zwitterion]

Qs to Sarah - is there any useful sheet/guides that have been popularly used for candidate assessment During interviews ? Thanks

[Toneload]

Any tips where to look to find underestimated talent? This is the hardest i think especialy in europe where a lot of employee missing the hunger to drive due to well paid position.

[turkihaza]

I entered the video with false assumptions. However, Sarah your advice could not have said better. PROPS to you

[Houseofyards]

Did I hear you actually said boring ass job descriptions? 🙄

[Lakesidejimmy]

You are awesome, not only very smart but beautiful! Thanks for the great info. I hope we see a lot of you instead of the old guys.

[zwitterion]

@Steve - how do guys JUST KNOW what we founders really are looking for at the right time?! Lol, jk. Fantastic again!