Questions regarding practices of recruiting new employees for the business.
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How does a technical person evaluate an MBA-type business partner?
I've read a lot of questions asking about how an MBA can find a technical person to implement their idea, but I haven't seen the other direction.
As a technical person, I know that I can get my idea ...
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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 many programmers should a startup have?
You've got an early software project, it's reasonably popular. There's no known limit to the product's potential size or usefulness. You've just gotten funding.
How many programmers do you hire?
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7answers
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Why do startups tend to offer fashionable “cool” job title names? Is it sane?
Since a few years I've seen job title names like
Javascript Assassin
Rails Master
PHP Guru
Python Ninja
Lisp Middle Earth Wizard
Perl Golfer
which are usually offered by startups. What's your ...
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2answers
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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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Using your startup on your resume while job-hunting?
I have a very new solo startup that doesn't make any money (yet...), but it's time to get a "real job" so that I can pay the bills. I'm very proud of the work I did on my startup and think that it ...
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4answers
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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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8answers
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Best place to find software development interns?
So you have decided to hire some interns... You don't have much time to go to a college/university and get the word out... where do you find the best interns for software development? I know of ...
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1answer
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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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4answers
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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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5answers
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Hiring and interviewing advice
I'm in the process of evaluating resumes for a web marketing / project management position. I've never considered myself very good at interviewing. Beware, my question is multi-faceted, so don't feel ...
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What Job Boards Do You Use to Find High Quality Technical Talent? [closed]
At some point, we all exhaust our networks and need to look externally for talent. We're planning to do some specific recruiting around front-end and "all-around" dev folks in the next few months and ...
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Where do you find candidates for hiring?
There are a number of avenues to go for hiring, like LinkedIn, traditional Craigslist, Monster listings, etc.
I personally use Startuply.com (YC '08) for a lot of the hiring that I do. It's proven 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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To be a great software company, you hire the best developers… how?
Joel Spolsky is always writing about how companies should treat and offer the best to their developers in order to be able to get the best of them... as a startup, when time comes and you do need to ...
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6answers
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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 ...
