Working in a startup is always a little adventure. Candidates also understand it, so hiring employees for even the most ambitious startup can be somewhat difficult.
Let’s take a look at some simple yet workable ways to scale hiring early in your startup:
1. It all starts with SEO
It is the CEO who is the face of the brand and affects its reputation. It’s important not to separate your personal brand from your company, and to get serious about communicating the values you want to associate your brand with. Your attractiveness as an employer begins with your attractiveness as a business and as a person. In the future, we recommend attracting professionals to work with the brand and reputation, but at the beginning of the journey, you can do it yourself.
2. Understand your goals and needs
You should have a well thought out business plan and an understanding of what pool of responsibilities each team member should perform. Only in this way the expansion of the team will occur organically and justified. It is not always possible to give an employee a relevant workload, but his tasks should not be performed by an adjacent specialist. Keep this in mind, and do not neglect alternative formats of cooperation — outsourcing, outstaff, part-time employment, and so on. Clearly understand what the new employee should bring to your team.
3. Hiring strategy
The standardization of hiring implies that each employee in a managerial position should be aware of the criteria for assessing soft and hard skills. They should be averaged for all employees. This will help not only in scaling, but also in debugging internal processes and regulating wages. It doesn’t matter if you work with an agency or in-house recruiters — there should be a well-functioning hiring flow with clearly defined stages and specific goals.
4. Structuring company values and policies
For a startup, alignment with the company’s values is even more important than for an existing business. Motivation and contribution to the common cause are at the heart of the work of a startup, so the choice of “your” people is critically important here. A startup is constantly evolving and some details may change, but you must clearly understand what you want to achieve.
5. Build your employer brand
Building an employer brand is a necessary part of the job rom the moment you start working. Your attitude towards employees and the atmosphere within the company is a guarantee that you will be able to choose employees and attract customers through reputation. Pay attention to building a network, as this is an equally important component of your brand. From here you get candidates and stimulate a loyal audience to discuss newsworthy topics.
Forming healthy approaches to hiring will be your best investment of time and effort. This will give you a strong team that shares your values and goals. This will help to implement successful projects quickly and efficiently, earning an exceptional reputation.
And if you want to entrust the search for your team to specialized specialists, we will be happy to help you with this!