You are a startup founder, just raised a new round of investment and you
switched on HIRING Mode...
You are a startup founder who just raised a new investment round and you switched on HIRING Mode.Your goal: Get to the summit of Mount Scale!
After all, scaling is mainly hiring! There is a long way to go and you need top-tier talent to get there faster than anyone.
What will you need to embark on this journey?
Your first challenge will be SOURCING candidates with great potential.
Your candidates will then go through a SCREENING process (e.g. technical test) to determine how qualified they are for the job.
Finally, a handful of candidates will make it to the SELECTION stage, where you will want to pick the best (fit for your team), using an interview focused on Culture and Personality.
You will discover how prepared you are to go through the PROCESS for attracting talent.
Your Assets:
Recruitment Readiness Checklist - Makes sure you don’t miss anything important.
To get to the top of Mount Scale you need a high-grade team of hackers,
hustlers, and visionaries to partner with you - your Founding Team…
To get to the top of Mount Scale you need a high-grade team of hackers, hustlers, and visionaries to partner with you - your Founding Team.Their unique skills and abilities will help and support you along the way.
But who should you be looking for? Who are the great, the amazing, the bold?
What will bring you together, and what are the ties that will bond you together through thick and thin?
To start you will need to set the Values and the Hiring Plan.
Your Assets:
Values - Helps you figure out compatibility for every future candidate.
Hiring Plan - Helps you organize your talent acquisition activities.
Show your allies who you are looking for and they will use their influence
to bring you great candidates...
Turns out you have a great resource right in front of your eyes: Your allies. Show them what you seek, and they will use their magic to bring you great candidates.Turns out you have a great resource right in front of your eyes: Your allies. Show them what you seek, and they will use their magic to bring you great candidates.
It turns out that people fit to perform in your startup are a special kind of breed. Not everybody is interested in changing the world, let alone capable.
Your wise allies will help you find the right people. For protection, they grant you a magical charm that you’ll use along the way when you’ll be in trouble. And trouble will come.
How can you make the most of what you have?
Here is how to do this right: Leverage the clout of your network, investors, advisors, accelerator mentors, and other allies you have and ask them to help you find the right talent for you.
To do it right, you will first need a Job Description and a Job Post.
Your Assets:
Job Description - The internal doc you set up at the beginning of every new hire workflow.
Job Post - Create a tailor-made blurb to spark the interest of talent. The quality of this text will define the quality of your pipeline.
People from far away and beyond start hearing about your great journey and want to join…
People from far away and beyond start hearing about your great journey and want to join.You will not have the time to talk with everybody, therefore you will need to devise some clever ways to separate the best from the rest.
Remember, you need the right people alongside you!
How will you qualify them in advance for the challenge ahead?
Most organizations use a combination of skills testing, CV reviewing, references check, async video interviews, etc. to screen for the best candidates. For this, you need to define your Screening Criteria and your Screening Test.
Your Assets:
Screening Criteria — Helps you define how you will test candidates, as well as how are you going to evaluate results.
Screening Test(s) — Tests to be administered to you candidates, on the basis of which you’ll evaluate them.
You have a handful of viable candidates in front of you.
Not clear on how they rank? You have been visited by the ghost of doubt...
Not clear on how they rank? You have been visited by the ghost of doubt...
You have a handful of viable candidates in front of you.Did you get great chemistry with one candidate? Sometimes the ghost of overconfidence is around. And sometimes the candidates themselves ghost you.
Not clear on how they rank? You have been visited by the ghost of doubt.
The problem is great candidates don’t linger too much. There are always other great adventures around, so you need to make a decision. Fast. And avoid a bad hire.
How do you recognize the potential for greatness? How will you recognize your future journey companions when you see them?
How do you recognize the potential for greatness? How will you recognize your future journey companions when you see them?
We call these people MULTIPLIERS.
They make everything 10x faster and easier because they are better at cooperating, show grit and initiative, are scrappy and inventive, etc.
Out of the handful of candidates remaining in the race, the winner should be the one that is the best fit for you.
What you’ll need for this: Freya gives you the ideal behavioral profiles for the positions you are recruiting.
Your Assets:
A free account for Freya Sense.
Freya reveals the true selves of your candidates…
Freya reveals the true selves of your candidates, it will whisper in your ear the right questions to ask and will show you the traits that are ideal for each position.You will build your best Founding Team because you’ll know things, you’ll figure out who’s the best fit for your team faster than anyone else.
Freya helps you identify the ideal traits in your candidates and gives you all the insights on how to catalyze their authentic personalities.
What you’ll use for this:
Custom Behavioural Interviews - End-to-end interview scripts customized to determine the right talent for the position. Define your desired behavioral profile and Freya will offer you the right script.
It’s time for you to continue your journey. Now that you have started assembling your Founding/Core Team with the best talent, you move faster towards your growth goals.What will be your next challenge?
Here, you can access all your Assets, Tips & Tricks, and Best Practices.
And here you can create your Freya Sense account.
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