Questions regarding practices of recruiting new employees for the business.
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How do you tell if he/she is a great marketing candidate?
What are the methodologies you use to determine if a person would make a great marketer?
For instance, I may be looking for someone who has great instinct about what the market wants and able to ...
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How can a Greenhorn get experience?
In this economic climate, competition for jobs is stiff. What should a smart, hardworking recent graduate of a business school program do to try to get a job that will give him the experience he needs ...
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How is hiring and relocation handled for non-local job candidates of a venture-backed startup?
I am interesting in moving out to another city to work at a promising startup, particularly one with venture funding and user traction.
How do venture-backed startups generally handle candidates who ...
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How to select a VP of Sales and Marketing partner
I've been working solo on my startup for longer than I'd care to admit. I'm a coder w/ a fleshed out website/webservice that's finally realized that I might actually need sales people.
I'm thinking ...
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What solutions are there to removing medical insurance as a barrier to startup hiring?
In the US, medical insurance is tied to the employer in the vast majority of cases. Paying for an employee health plan is beyond the means of many startups. Founders are often willing to take the ...
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What Questions Should I Ask When Interviewing at a Startup?
The ten years I've worked since graduating college have been for companies with more than 40,000 employees. I am being interviewed by a startup. The job seems to suit me and I am ready for the ...
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What states are the best/worse to have remote employees in?
One of the issues many small companies in the US run into is wanting to hire an employee (who let's say will work from his home) that lives in a different state.
I've found that some of the states ...
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Legal document checklist (NDA, …) when hiring part-time developers abroad?
I'm currently hiring some part-time developer abroad and wanted to make sure that I made them sign all the needed legal documents.
So, normally in those cases, what would you make those future ...
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What is the company vision after five years in business?
I have been running my custom software and web development services as a one-man-show for 5 years now (I started working as a software developer right after graduation and after 3 years on the job, I ...
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How do we know we're ready to grow?
Is it better to make the decision to hire based only on revenue growth? Or if you saved enough money to pay another salary for 4 months, would it be better to grow first and try to increase our ...
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Personality profiling for job candidates?
I've used a variety of personality profiles to gain additional insights on job candidates, regarding work and communication styles, energy levels, focus, drive etc etc. I have used the DISC Online ...
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How do I develop HR policies for a start-up from scratch?
With no budget for hiring a full-time HR person, what is the right way to develop HR policies as my startup grows.
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You have a list of potential interns for your software development shop… what do you ask to select the best ones?
SO you have a list of resumes for potential software development interns, what do you ask them to make sure you get the best one(s)?
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Hiring for startups
Hiring for startups is not an easy problem to solve. How do you attract good talent to a company that is just starting out and has an uncertain future. Through this thread I would like to invite ...
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Best practices for using temp agencies for part-time administrative help?
I know this sounds like a silly question, but... do startups use temp agencies?
We're attending a trade show next week and I'm concerned that our staff won't be able to handle the critical follow-up ...
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how do I hire people when the company is not making any money?
I have an iphone app which I want to convert into a full scale website. I also want to port the app to other platforms (Android, Blackberry etc). I am also planning to quit my day job to work on this ...
