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You’ve raised the money and it’s time to hire some people. Wait! What’s your Recruitment Strategy?
As a founder, when you raise money for your startup, it’s usually all about growth and that tends to mean you need to recruit and hire some staff. This is an exciting and stressful time for you and your business and having a clear plan will make it easier. In fact,...
How do you get the best out of your newly hired remote worker?
In this series of articles our Org Psych, Virginia Henningsen, takes you through real-life (anonymised of course) examples of personalities you are likely to encounter when recruiting for your startup/scaleup and the tips and approaches you can apply to bring out...
You hired a sales leader to rocket your revenue but it’s not happening…now what?
Get the best out of your sales people.
So you just hired a Head of Engineering and things are getting weird…now what?
So your new Head of Engineering ticks all the boxes but then they start, and you can’t quite get a handle on them, you can’t work them out, everything you do seems to be getting them offside and performance is slipping. What’s going on? Maybe they’re like Jake…
So you just hired a “high performer”…now what?
How to get the best out of your high performers. What would Wendy Rhoades from Billions suggest?
The best job ever
When I calculated recently that I have interviewed over 5,000 people in my headhunting career I thought to myself, wow, that’s a pretty big number. Especially when you think of all that one-on-one time with people. I know the word ‘interview’ makes it sound like work...
How to find a CTO for a startup low on funding
I specialize in recruiting leadership roles for startups. As a result, I end up talking to lots of Founders in businesses at different stages of maturity and, quite often, common themes will become evident. For example, in the past few days, I met with three really...