Hiring for Startups

How do you focus on raising money, building an organization, and simultaneously think about hiring and sustaining a team…all at the same time? How do you hire effectively while: developing a strong culture, minding the budget, and avoiding bias? How do you create a culture that scales as the company grows? How do you find consensus on foundational needs like mission, purpose, values? These are serious concerns for a company that is fully committed to growth.

Join this workshop to delve into nearly thirty pages of guided prompts, key takeaways, and clear examples with real-world strategies from thriving organizations, tips and techniques for growth-stage HR, and scalable and repeatable processes for getting started on hiring right away.

Build skills in:

• • Defining roles and creating job descriptions
  • Building out your organization’s mission and values
  • Designing a flexible and comprehensive interview process
  • Understanding scorecards, metrics & hiring analytics
  • Learning how and where to source candidates & build a talent pipeline

Outcomes of this interactive workshop:

• • Appreciating how building a healthy and empowering culture as you grow your team will lead to long-term success
  • Learn how to build alignment between your values and your organization
  • Understand the building blocks of culture from the very beginning: hiring!
  • We will guide you through prompts and exercises to help you create the foundation of your hiring process through:
    • Understanding your values & finding alignment with the hiring process
    • How to define the roles you’re hiring for, focusing on essential skills & duties
    • Key points for reviewing resumes – avoiding bias and understanding “fit”
    • Developing an interview process, step by step!

This workshop is for you if you’re:

• • A founder, part of the founding team, or an early team member of a growing organization
  • Starting your own business and planning on making your first (or fifth!) hire
  • Responsible for building a team at an early-stage organization
  • Handling hiring, in any capacity, at an organization without a robust hiring process in place

What to bring:

• • Yourself! Excitement for building something awesome! And a pen.