Prepare a Hiring
How do you prepare for hiring before talking to a recruiter?
The What
How to kick off hiring? From the idea to the published job advertisement.
The How
Dig not collect the hiring needs
Team Vision: what the team is trying to achieve?
Business Strategy
Continue to improve the current market, or
Scale to other countries, or
Shrink to a maintenance mode?
OKRs: both short term and long term
Decide the title
Align to the company framework
Align to the local market
Make sense to the team
Decide the salary
HR benchmark
Market benchmark
Nail the Position Description
Get the approval
Budgeted if it is a vacancy to be backfilled
Get the approval if it is a new headcount
Form a hiring team
Decide interviewers
Be aware of diversity
Give them a heads-up
Debrief the interview process
Backfilling a vacancy is generally easier than hiring a new position
Hiring the wrong one is worse than hiring no one
Move fast
Engage stakeholders
If you haven't hired anyone before, learn from others
If the hiring need is wrong, everything is wrong
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