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Follow This Six-Point Checklist To Strengthen Employee Onboarding

YoungUpstarts

Sure, they may hand out a few training booklets and introduce new hires to the team, but successful onboarding goes much deeper than that. When organizations fail to implement such a strategy, new hires slip through the cracks. These companies also see a 69% boost in new hire retention. Align all the Departments.

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How to Identify and Attract the Best Software Development Talent

Transformify

And the only way to do that is by being creative and strategic with your approach to hiring software developers. Ways To Attract The Best Software Development Talent Hiring the best talent always starts with attracting them. One way to do that is to offer competitive salary packages. And we're going to help you with that.

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How Great, Operationally-Focused CFO’s Can Transform Your Business

Both Sides of the Table

For a well-funded seed company I have controversially recommended hiring a great office manager that doubles as an administrative assistant. This happens because many CEOs are passionate, market-driven people who are constantly trying to launch new products, win contracts, get press, hire staff and woo VCs. HR & Legal.

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The Acquihire Market for Early Stage Startups is Ice Cold. One Better Strategy? Announce You’re For Sale.

Hunter Walker

per engineer.” Especially in the early days of mobile/iOS engineering, if you hired strong technical talent into your early stage company, you basically created an acquisition outcome floor. Those who do, often believe they can hire from the open market without the hassle of an acquisition.

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Vote Local, Austin: 18 SXSW panels featuring Austinites that deserve your PanelPicker vote

Austin Startup

Learn how acquisitions can usher in new eras of growth and hiring, how to nurture existing cultures, how to merge different ways of thinking when the acquiring company doesn’t have tech roots, and how to deploy strategies for future success. You don’t need rockstar engineers. You need a rockstar engineering organization.

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A VC: Employee Equity: How Much?

www.avc.com

The most common comment in this long and complicated MBA Mondays series on Employee Equity is the question of how much equity should you grant when you make a hire. For your first key hires, three, five, maybe as much as ten, you will probably not be able to use any kind of formula. First, a caveat. Director Level: 0.25x.

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The Great Talent Reshuffling of 2021 Has Begun

Hunter Walker

Why the next 6–12 months will be the best time in a decade for startups to hire. Here are some things I’m seeing the best startups do to prepare for the opportunity: Build a Stretch Headcount Budget -> Sometimes you gotta bust the headcount plan when there’s a chance to make key hires.

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