How do you find the first hires for your startup, especially remotely?
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As we know, the first hires are critical for every startup because they shape its culture
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When a professional has worked remotely before or is looking for a job that allows them to work remotely, they know where specifically to look. Facebook groups are one of the places to be, but so are sites like remote.co and We Work Remotely, as well as the EU-Startups Job Board, to name just a few. By posting your openings in pages like the ones mentioned above you will be tackling the right target. That does not mean that you shouldn’t open a position on Linkedin or similar platforms, but if you do, make sure to highlight that you’re looking to fill a full or part-time remote job
This is not about remotely hiring, this is about ability to trust easily and need for comfort with the person in my humble opinion. Agree @benoit_chambon ?
Online communities and book clubs are my best advisor for that kind a purpose. You can clearly learn anyone deeply if she/he fits your company's culture. Passion is hard to find, keep digging it :)
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LinkedIn is great way to hire, also if you are looking for coders , github is another place
We have 2 founders and 3 engineers on our team. Here is how we found the engineers -1 through toptal.com, 1 I had done some work with in the past and 1 reached out to me on Slack after we did our beta lunch. All 3 have been great hires and we have a long future together. Finding talent through a "staffing" company like Toptal was really nice, but now bringing the talent in full time is not cheap. Any ideas on how to minimize fee's for contract to hire? P.S. We are all remote.
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We use a product called intervue.io It helps us screen candidates and it even has code editor with around 30 or so languages if you wanna hire a techie
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Best way is to actually go to cafes and meet and talk to people. Made some of my best hires from referrals through people i met while remotely working at a cafe!
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They will learn MERN Stack and will get experience working on a live product.
I am prepared to have multiple internship structures for organisations so that they will get curated candidates for the open positions.
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I am here to get ideas because I want to start hiring some remote guys to help around. I hope this discussion will help me with that.
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