Hiring Advice

Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can't tell you whether someone will fit into a company's culture.

If you're the CEO of a fast-growing startup, the mistake you'll make in the next year that you'll regret most will probably be a hiring mistake. Possibly hiring someone established, which you'll feel you should do now you're getting big, and which VCs will strongly encourage.

here are some posts about online communities that I find very good for one reason or another (Not a full list, no particular order, mostly from the running list we keep at @capiche. screenshots in this thread are their quotes, not my notes) Please add to this list! 👇thread👇

Using the collaborate before you commit approach empowers both the candidate and the person hiring, because they both have the agency to decide whether the situation feels right to them. Was there chemistry? Was there magic? Was it more awkward than you might have liked?