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Welcome to the TRY ANGLES weekly review where my job is to share with you new readings, methods and tools that I have found and tested.
Today we will start a journey on recruiting. How many writers, how many business leaders are telling us that recruiting is THE most important thing to help your business performance.
Two years ago I had not hired anybody in my life, yet I needed to build my teams. That's how I jumped into the pool of recruitment. I was not ready for this.
Recruiting is extremely time consuming and contains a lot of complexity because of the interpretation skills involved in the process.
Designing an effortless recruiting process has been a fun thing to do and enabled me to save time and select great candidates over 200 people averaging 2 interviews each.
At the end of this article you'll have a grasp of the building blocks necessary to have an effective recruiting pipe.
Here is what you'll find in today's article:
Recruiting agencies appear like the savior when you have no idea how to recruit. Honestly they have had a bitter sweet taste for me, and in hindsight I do not believe that you should use them when you have an early stage company.
They will help you to find candidates, but the price to pay is high and it will still be your responsibility to select the right person. There's no shortcut for this.
Even though most of them are rewarded on success fees, if somehow things do not match with the candidate, you find yourself locked up with the recruiters holding your cash.
Now, candidate is gone, cash is gone and you can only hope the recruiter will introduce you with better ones. If you fill in the position by any other means your cash is lost. It is not an ideal position to be in.
It's no secret that in the first years of your young company you'll have to iterate a lot, and recruiting is part of the iteration. Try to keep recruiting in house as long as you can. It might save you a couple of thousands euros.
Nevertheless a possible alternative if you want to save some time is to use recruiters specialized in the sourcing of candidates while keeping the selection process under your control.
Now the fun begins! There is no shortcut: you need a good recruiting process.