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

✅ Exceptions

• Backfilling a vacancy is generally easier than hiring a new position

🔴 Red Flags

Hiring the wrong one is worse than hiring no one

📜 Tips

• Move fast

• Engage stakeholders

• If you haven't hired anyone before, learn from others

🕳️ Pitfalls

• If the hiring need is wrong, everything is wrong