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5 reasons you should stop hiring based on titles

The Next Web

Here are a few ways hiring based on titles alone fails to serve the needs of a growing business. Approach this process with a thoughtful and honest attitude to reveal the core skills your new hire should possess. Banking juggernaut Goldman Sachs recently hired former U.S. It limits you to one skillset. Siewert Jr.

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Lean Business Tips: Hiring Contractors for Fun and Profit(ability)

crowdSPRING Blog

Today I want to write briefly about a strategy we have used to very good effect when hiring new workers: outsource. I am not talking about outsourcing work to other companies, but rather finding, hiring, and developing a network of freelance vendors or contractors. This does not just apply in the world of creative services.

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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

SoCal CTO

You should avoid spending your time here and instead focus on finding a way to generate revenue or to attract investors so that you can afford to hire someone. What sweat equity is not good for is for people who you don’t know at all.

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Lessons Learned: Lean hiring tips

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 19, 2009 Lean hiring tips In preparing for the strategy series panel this week, I have been doing some thinking about costs. And all of that cost was caused by one activity: hiring. Hiring is no different from any other company process. Sounds a little abstract, though, doesnt it?

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Ardent War Story 5: The Best Marketers Are Engineers

Steve Blank

I would discover that there was a more effective alternative in building a marketing department than hiring traditional marketers with MBA’s. I chose to hire engineers from within each of our target markets and set up “Steve’s one month MBA course for engineers.” These hires were definitely not your standard marketing types.

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Rockstars Wanted? 6 Things To Look for In Your Next Hire

YoungUpstarts

Hiring a new employee is more expensive than you think. According to a 2010 study from the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) at the University of California-Berkeley, the average cost of a new hire is $4,000, plus salary and benefits. Who’s Your Star Hire? Resilience. Coachability. Personability.

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Back In The Filtering Game: Entrepreneur Drawn by The Siren Call Of The Startup

YoungUpstarts

We hired a CEO to help us build the business. In 2010, the “we did it” moment arrived. com for over $10 million on December 2, 2010. We didn’t even know they were doing it. The next five years were a whirlwind. We received a venture capital investment. We did projects with the Australian Federal Government and McAfee.