Startup Recruitment: Where and how to start for successful hires

Recruitment is not a hard science, it can be done by any person having a little common sense, and successful recruitment is just about all the small and big interactions, well handled. In today’s world, a number of professional third-party recruiters have a huge pool of contacts to find the best staff fit for their clients.

The major point of difficulty that arises is to find the right person available for the right job. Hiring the right person- always gives multiple returns.

How to start successful hires

Startup companies that want to build their business for long run should think of building their human resources around the people in their business.

“Discovering the right talent for startups using conventional job sites is not quite efficient, where resumes have to be manually filtered. A number of startups in this space are solving the problem of hiring by easing the discovery of right talent and reducing the applicants to shortlisted candidates ratio,” says Shanti Mohan, the co-founder, and CEO of LetsVenture.

There are a lot of resources available for startups to hire in India are:

1. Angel list

2. Cutshort

3. Instahire

4. Link

Where to start successful hires

Hire leadership first

It is the most important question among the startup founders, who to recruit first, leadership or support staff. In most of the cases, leadership should come first. This will allow all the hired executives to further build up their teams according to their needs. Your startup can actually grow according to a well-known strategy called span of control(actually started as a military strategy)

Don’t get distracted by the corporate experience

Most of the startups today want people with experience, yes it is good, but be clear with yourself that what type of experience do you want. You might be wanting to hire someone who is comfortable in large, where you will desire to reach one day.

Benjamin Yoskovitz recommends recruiting of leaders with startups or with small experience who are ready to try something new and challenging, instead of for looking at entrepreneurial DNA.

Hire people smarter than you

Steve Jobs said,“it doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do. This can be frightening for startup founders. How can you maintain control of a car if you don’t know whats going on under the hood?

The answer lies in your startup’s core values. If you recruit leaders who fulfill your core values, then you can surely trust that their brilliance will work in your favor.

Don’t be cheap when recruiting

Clayton Christopher is a well-known Austin, entrepreneur who founded both Sweet Leaf Tea and Deep Eddy Vodka. He is very often with his startup experiences and often recounts how he learned to invest in talent from the start.

“One of the things I wanted to do from day one at Deep Eddy was to create a world-class team,” he told in a magazine.

The hiring of a world-class team is very essential, though it results in higher startup costs, but than the payoffs can be effectively impressive. The problem is that good startup talent is hard to find these days. If you want to hire people with exceptional, you have to pay them what they worth of.

This article is written by Jatin Kapoor, presently working in LegalRaasta, an online portal for Company Registration, GST Return, FSSAI Registration and other legal services.