Questions regarding practices of recruiting new employees for the business.
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How to find telecommute software jobs? [closed]
I am a young software developer with 4 years of experience out of school and looking for telecommuting job opportunities. The position doesn't have to be 100% telecommute and can even require ...
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1answer
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Difference between contractor and intern?
I have a small company and we are constantly looking for contractors (we plan to have employees in the future, but for now we want to stick to contractors). I noticed if I say that interns are welcome ...
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How Do You Find a Copywriter?
We are looking for a great copywriter who can understand our product, our selling proposition, and our customers, and can run with it and produce web site and brochure copy. We have a budget of a few ...
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Should you hire a candidate who is arrogant?
I am hiring for software developer position.
Now I got this one guy who solved my C test well. But I find that hes a bit oversmart. I also got this other guy whosdid 80% correctly.
So, now I am ...
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Where to find designers / programmers for equity
Investors want to see the finished project (+ maybe private beta results).
I came a long way, but I have the feeling that I cant run the last couple of miles without being surpassed by competition.
I ...
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3answers
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Qualifying someone as an employee vs a contractor
My wife and I have a very small catering company. We have recently gotten all of the business licenses and tax identification and things set up that we need. We have no full time employees, but we ...
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1answer
357 views
Hiring a CTO into an existing [profitable] company - how to structure offer?
I'm the CEO of a B2B startup. Been around almost 1 year and we already have a decent piece of software, 2 clients and are profitable. Not hugely so, but enough to pay the bills.
To scale to the next ...
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Hiring siblings
There are 12 ppl in my organisation. Should I hire siblings of people already working for my organisation? I mean its not a big deal for a big company, but such a decision should be thought upon in a ...
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Interviewing sales people: what do you do to check their claims without asking for past W2s?
One of the favorite parts of my job is to recruit people for my company. From experience I have come to realize that no matter how busy you are, outsourcing recruiting and hiring is very shortsighted ...
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When to hire someone with law/business background in a start up?
When is the best time to hire someone with law/business experience? I've got a friend with a JD MBA, that is looking for good start up companies where his services might be valued. He worked in law ...
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What are the key qualities you look for in a candidate for startups?
I know that it is very difficult to gauge a candidate's attitude / work ethics from the start. What are the most important things you look for a candidate that will be fit for a startup software ...
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1answer
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I need to know when to hire certain postions for my startup
I know the answer to this question varies greatly depending on the business etc. But I want to know if anyone knows of any information available that explains x-users = x-customer support reps etc. ...
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How to hire sales rep? [closed]
What site would you recommend to add posting?
Any specialty site that would be better for jewelry sales rep?
What template should I use for the contract if any?
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Interviewing / hiring accountants for a startup
What are some good questions to ask when hiring an accountant for an early stage startup?
The goal is to prepare the company for VC/Angel funding. As a first time entrepreneur I have no idea how ...
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Company Showcasing: Do Recruiters have the need to showcase work/ projects of their organizations while promoting company to potential candidates? [closed]
Do Recruiters have the need to showcase the work/ projects of their organizations while promoting their company to the potential candidates ?
If this showcasing is required, through what means is ...
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1answer
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How to hire your first employee in the UK
We are on the brink of hiring our first staff member in the UK.
We know there is a lot of paperwork to be done, but have no idea what that paperwork is and which things are crucial and which are just ...
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How to find young, college-aged designers and programmers (physical location doesn't matter)
I'm a co-founder of a profitable startup doing around a million in revenue a year. I'm having a great time and gaining lots of experience with this startup.
However, I have many other ideas floating ...
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3answers
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How much cash reserves should you plan to have before hiring?
We're at a point where we need to hire at 1-2 employees, and I'm not sure how much cash to have on hand. We're a SaaS product, with growing traction and on target to be cash-flow neutral next year. ...
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Should I suspend my startup? [closed]
I was working for a large financial firms as Senior Technical Architect, spending almost 15 hours a day. I quit my job around 18 months back to start this startup and taking an underpaid/under skilled ...
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1answer
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When a startup should hire a sys admin?
The startup is growing and you have now 5 full-time devs on your team. You have an older application which is up and running in production and a new web application almost ready to be released. You ...
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2answers
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Good resources to hire developer on a work basis
Is there a place where I could hire a developer (or a team) based on functional specs I would submit. What I am envisioning is a site where I would submit a description of my project and get access ...
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Hiring from Competitors
I am thinking of hiring my staff from my competitor's firm, are there any legal issues in doing so? Both for my firm and for the new joining staff member?
Additional details: To be more specific, I ...
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What does employment at will actually mean for an employee?
I've recently (5 months ago) signed and employment-at-will contract with a largish company. I start in 2 months. Given different scenarios, I want to figure out not only what this legally means, but ...
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Are US NDAs enforceable in other countries?
Are NDAs a safe thing to do when hiring out of the country? I'm hiring freelancers to do some mobile programming work, and they reside in France. They have, very kindly, signed the NDA I provided for ...
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Where can I get a designer?
For my startup (web 2 SaaS) I am looking for a good designer, probably with HTML/JavaScript skills. It seems this is pretty difficult - all good people have jobs. So I am thinking about remote work. I ...
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Bringing part time hacker on-board for equity only. How much equity is fair?
[Disclaimer: This question was also posted on Hacker News]
Howdy,
Just 6 weeks ago my co-founder and I began working on our startup full time. We want to accelerate development and have talked to a ...
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3answers
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Head count planning for a growing start up - any processes, books, templates?
As a growing start up, we need to plan for new people in every deparment (some of these are just 1 person, but future departments).
So Sales has its plan to double sales this year; meanwhile other ...
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Is hiring average programmers worse than staying solo?
I have a reasonably successful SaaS which is pretty much a one-man show; I always wanted a co-founder but never found the right person. It's been running for a number of years now, growing ...
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2answers
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Hiring an employee in the USA
We're an Israeli Company that wants to expand to the USA, we have already close the commercial details with a very experienced executive in the USA, now we have to decide how we can hire him, we asked ...
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Hiring a developer - Agreements and other formalities
I run a software startup based out of India.
To write a module of my application I am talking to a developer. To make things formal I wanted to sign an agreement.
The agreement should talk about ...
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Should I trust software development companies from Asia?
There are lots of sites around the internet that offer cheap labour from an offshore location. What do you think about using this type of site to speed up your local business? Is it a good idea? Has ...
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Hiring and Skills Testing
Does anyone know of a comparable service to test a users skills to what they provide on elance? I like the ability to test various skills but I'm not sure if it preferable to have them set up an ...
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What is the best startup hiring book?
I am starting to hire people int our startup. We actually need to hire very quickly and effectively at the same time as we don't have a lot of chance to make mistakes.
What is the best book anyone ...
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What are the proper steps (contracts, terms, payments agreements) when hiring freelance developers?
I'm looking to hire some developers to help bang out some features of my app that I can't do myself yet. I'm going to be able to give them pretty specific tasks and if they do well continue on and ...
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How can you hire great developers for startups?
There is a lot of advice on how to hire great developers, which I don't think is quite relevant as far as startups are concerned.
The reason why I am saying this is because we--as a startup in the ...
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Hiring contract developers to bootstrap a startup
We are developing a music service with a certain implementation model & revenue model in mind. Its nothing out of the blue, but a combination of best of everything, in a nice way. We have external ...
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Estimating Startup Costs / Pro Forma
I'm working on a business plan and estimating startup costs. I know the numbers vary wildly from enterprise to enterprise, but I'm trying to identify in my estimates how many people I would need to ...
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How to start hiring people effectively?
Okay, this is not a typical question, but applies in a specific case. Starting out as a freelancer, most of us spend a lot of time in picking up necessary skills and building out a set of happy ...
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How do I find a bona fide Social Media consultant?
Everybody and their brother claims to be a social media "expert" these days.
How do you find a consultant who actually knows what they are doing?
How much should they cost?
What should you get for ...
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Using a Staffing Agency - Is it a Bad Idea?
If you've exhausted your personal network (and friends' networks), and now need to hire people who have skills that you don't have, would you try working with a staffing agency?
I've heard a lot of ...
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What kind of sales commission plan is Groupon using?
Groupon has been hiring sales people like crazy. Their turnover is probably very high but the sheer number of salespeople that they are adding to their company every month is something crazy to a ...
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Potential employee's F-1 student visa expires in October…How “hard” would it be to get him sponsored?
Currently operating a very small, early-stage startup. Just received first round of seed capital and looking to expand operations this summer. I have been looking for a developer (employee #2) to ...
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Do you have rules in place for doing something manually vs. creating an automated system?
I've heard from many successful entrepreneurs that only your job as a startup founder is to constantly be creating systems; However, There's a huge trade-off though between trying new experiments and ...
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Starbucks Interview Process - Hiring Happiness?
As a big Starbucks fan and avid traveller I have noticed a trend while travelling whether its from Toronto to Texas to California... All Starbucks employees seem to have a very similar personality ...
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Where did your star developer come from?
If your startup has a star developer:
what was he/she doing before joining your company?
How did you find and get into contact with him/her?
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What should I ask a startup's investors as a potential employee?
So, I was reading Guy Kawasaki's questions to ask a startup. One of them is to ask if you can speak with one of the investors on the Board of Directors. A startup that offered me a job asked me if I ...
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As a potential employee, should I frown on “zerg hiring”?
In my job hunt, it's incredibly common for me to run into startups that have say 3 people and then have the CTO tell me "We just closed a round of funding, so we're looking to hire 3 or 4 more ...
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Equity for strategic hires?
We're a small (but growing) consulting firm with software to be developed as a side stream (yes, I know this is an original story :)). 3 partners, equal equity.
We've worked with a few people in the ...
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What test-assignment to give to a distance-working developer/freelancer to determine his/her quality
So let's say you are trying to find a freelancer on the internet to do some coding/developing for a web application or a more generic type of aplication (like a c++ developer).
What would be a good ...
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Is it illegal for me to only consider women for a position I'm about to advertise for?
My startup's products will primarily be purchased by women, and thus I'd like to hire a sales and marketing director who is a woman. Is it against the law for me to advertise this position that I'm ...
