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Executive Search firm Heidrick & Struggles CEO, Kevin Kelly explained to me that it’s not just about the technical skills, but also about leadership and interpersonal strengths. You can’t tell by looking at a piece of paper what some of the strengths and weaknesses really are…We ask for specific examples of not only what’s been successful but what they’ve done that hasn’t gone well or a task they’ve, quite frankly, failed at and how they learned from that experience and what they’d do different in a new scenario.
Kevin Kelly at World Economic Forum (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Will You Love the Job? Can We Tolerate Working With You? How To Avoid Hiring The Wrong Person For Your Startup. Chris Rickborn is the COO and co-founder for Unrabble, a cloud-computing hiring software company that helps busy startups make great hires. In a startup, hiring a new employee can be a business-changing event. The smaller the organization, the more impact each employee has on its ultimate success. Don’t get me wrong — hiring is critical in any size of company, but larger organizations have the ability to orient and train new employees to an extent that startups can’t offer.
In a large company, if a new employee fails, the work can be redistributed and absorbed by other employees without having a significant impact. In a startup, a bad hire can be devastating. Here are five tips to help you avoid hiring the wrong person for your startup. 1. Writing lengthy job descriptions loaded with job requirements may keep unqualified candidates from wasting your time, but you’ve also just given every candidate a cheat sheet. 2.
Startups move fast, and every position is a skilled position. 3. 4. 5. How to Nail the Interview -- When You're the Interviewer. How To Treat Your Employees. Editor’s note: James Altucher is an investor, programmer, author, and entrepreneur. He has started and sold several companies, run a VC fund, and is an active investor in many private companies. His latest books are I Was Blind But Now I See and 40 Alternatives to College. You can follow him on Twitter @jaltucher. Wade had sex with Karen and now I had to fire him. She was our top designer. And he was also starting to make fun of one of my partners behind his back. He’d do that roll-the-eyes thing whenever my partner spoke. Wade had caught the disease. The disease spreads in stairwells. When I was a kid one of my friends told me he got a blowjob every weekend in the stairwell at Quakerbridge Mall near the movie theater.
Fucking stairwells. L. was crying when she called me and asked me to meet her at the cafe across the street from work. She was a project manager working at my first company. L. was still crying. One word can destroy people. Abracadabra. Beware of stairwells J) Surprise them. 8 Reasons To Choose A Startup Over A Corporate Job. You've graduated from college, diploma in hand (or in the mail), and you have a couple of job offers on the table. Other than being one of the lucky graduates in a weak economy, you have a choice to make. On one hand is a high-paying entry level position at a reputable brand in your field. On the other hand is a job offer from a small startup that is just kicking off. You've seen their product, believe in their mission, and like their approach, but aren't sure you want to take on the risk of working at a startup.
Or is it? Here are 8 reasons why you should take the plunge and enter the startup world instead. 1. Working at a startup probably means you're part of a small team, most likely in the single digits. When I joined Wanderfly, the core team was pretty much already in place, with directors of business development, marketing, and site production already on board. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Let me count the ways: I wear jeans to work. 7. Working at startup probably means that money is tight. 8. Beer Brand Offers Coolest Job in India: Went Viral On Facebook. Update: Mayank Agarwal, co-founder of Geek Creative Agency told me that they are the one who planned and ran the campaign.
Sutra Lite was hired by them just to provide HR consultancy. The coolest job in India? You got it — “SABMiller is launching the Miller High Life beer in India and is looking for qualified individuals, who embody and endorse the spirit of the brand – Work Hard, Party Hard.” The job offer is being primarily spread across Facebook, where it was posted in July. I was told that 30,000 applications have been received so far. The job scope sounds fun: You get to travel from club to club in India just to dance, drink, host parties, and be in the spotlight. Here’s what Hemani Shah, the representative of SutraLite says: We are looking for ambassadors in India who embody the spirit of ‘work hard party hard’ in their real life.
The campaign went viral on Facebook for several reasons. A gamified form For party crazed folks in India, this is something you don’t want to miss. Don’t waste your time in crappy startup jobs. What I’m about to say is true now, as of July 2012. It wasn’t necessarily true 15 years ago, and it may not be true next year. Right now, for most people, it’s utterly correct– enough that I feel compelled to say it. The current VC-funded startup scene, which I’ve affectionately started calling “VC-istan”, is– not to be soft with it– a total waste of time for most of the people involved. Startups. Now, the reverse seems to be true. For all this, I don’t intend to argue that people shouldn’t join startups. Here are 7 misconceptions about startups that I’d like to dispel. 1. Most equity offerings for engineers are, quite frankly, tiny.
Moreover, raises and bonuses are very uncommon in startups. There are exceptions. 2. So, when someone says, “the actual valuation should be… “, it’s reasonable to conclude with high probability that this person doesn’t know what the fuck he or she is talking about. There are several reasons for this disparity of value. 3. Frankly put, being a J.A.P. 4. 5. 6. Desperately Seeking Startup Skills: Where Highly Sought-After Folks Hang Out. Editor’s note: Jon Bischke is a founder of Entelo and is an advisor to several startups.
You can follow Jon on Twitter @jonbischke. It’s the New Year, which means setting new goals. For many startups, that means developing a new hiring plan. While the larger economy continues to mosey along, there’s high demand for a select group of individuals with skills that startups are looking for. We speak with hundreds of startups and recruiters each month, and here are five of the positions we see the most demand for, along with some suggestions for where potential candidates congregate. Designers Who Code Rebekah Cox from Quora was one of the first to popularize the notion of “designing in code.” Where they hang out: Your best bet for finding people of this type is to look for designers with a Github account. Growth Hacker If Rebekah gets credit for “designers who code,” Andrew Chen gets credit for introducing “growth hacker” to the lexicon.
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