Tips On Hiring Your First 10 Employees

Startups are a common in Bangalore and it could be safely called the Startup hub of India. But, building a startup starts with hiring. It is like laying of one of the corner stones of a building, that could decide the safety and age of it. Most of the early hires are around leadership positions and they are ones that could decide the growth direction for your business or organizations. Hence, you need to take due care and be highly meticulous when hiring for a startup and more importantly with your first 10 hires. These first hires are the ones who are probably going to occupy the leadership positions as the company moves northwards. Well, here are a few tips to help you with these crucial hires

1. Go Slow and Steady - Do not rush in hiring. You need to have profile sketching done from your managers, leadership and founders, job descriptions made and understood before you look into hiring. It also includes networking, checking on referrals and well these task iterating does take a lot of time. Go for recruitment consultants who understand your requirements thoroughly and not companies with half baked knowledge about recruitment.

2. Psychology study – Apparently, just understanding the motivation of ambitious people looking to get into something new , own it and build it from scratch. When its about a startup success there are only a few people sharing it. So, the first is to get involved on a direct basis and furthermore an opportunity for direct and huge incentive as the sharing is less. Hence, people who are looking out for a good packager might not be really a fit for startups. The more ideal ones would be the ones who are talented with less experience and ready to work towards potential benefits and not current.

3. Leadership qualities – You have to have the eye to pick the leaders of tomorrow today. Mostly unless your are backed by a hot investor, people are not really interested in joining startups. Therefore, you need to look into talented people who are packed with energy and enthusiasm to make it happen. There needs to be a hunger to do something, to achieve something and the recruiter needs to see it be it you as a company or your recruitment agency.

The other things that you need to be sure is that you and the people you are hiring share the same values and worth ethic. Furthermore, as you are a startup, your hires must be willing to work long hours and be there when you need them.

Having said that keeping the above tips might not get all the check boxes ticked but most of them, definitely.

Recruiting At Job Fairs – A Yes Or No?

While job fairs are a huge platform to meet candidates looking out for opportunities and find potential employees, it does involve a lot of money. Hence, keeping the convenience of meeting candidate face to face there arises a question whether this move is really useful for the business you are in for that matter.

Depending upon your need is where you choose which job fairs you want to be a part off. For example if your job openings are for middle level personals then visiting campus fairs or fresher fairs does not really make sense. You may opt for a campus fair or a fresher fair only if you are looking for fresher openings.

Like there is a target audience for every product or brand, similarly you need to focus on fairs that have your target audiences. Even fairs apparently need to have themselves a category to represent as far as job fair type is concerned. These factors add a lot to the success of the event as well considering the point of view of event organizers.

Also, when attending an event like a job fair which is up on quality and high skilled candidates, a good idea is to bring along the decision makers and opt for on spot hiring. Also, if you have a stall at the job fair, it’s important to have team members who with excellent communication and selling skills, who are passionate and energetic and can explain the positions to the prospects clearly and alluringly.

At times companies do invest in job fairs but they rarely make optimum use of the opportunity say experts. Even if the space is a small as that of a table, it still could be used to the optimum for the best of your use. Have a great display with the help accessories just to make that little petite area represent your organization smartly.

Well, in a nutshell, job fairs are a yes, if done properly and have targeted footfalls otherwise not.

*Sourced from Internet

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