Comments on: How to Hire Like a Start-Up

By: rwalling

rwalling — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 22:03:59 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Nathan. I agree; you can tell more about a person in a face to face than during a phone interview. What I found during our interview process is that bringing people in for an in-person interview requires a lot more time than you think. I can literally schedule 2 long (20+ minute) phone interviews per hour and be confident that I will talk to a lot of candidates. I would never dream of scheduling more than two face to face interviews in the same day due to the possibility of both running their full duration. With your strategy you’ll screen maybe 2 or 3 candidates per day; the strategy put forth in the article can handle 8 or more per day pretty easily.

By: http://

http:// — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 22:17:25 +0000

We are just about to embark upon a hiring spree of this magnitude in the not too distant future…which is a terrifying prospect for this medium sized organisation looking to grow. I like the idea of having a recruiter perform an initial screen with a select group of technical questions, but am not sure on the longer phone interview to follow up. You make the point that visual cues are important, I’d push that envelope further and say you can pretty much establish a candidates soft skills (personality, communication, fit) within the first five minutes of of a face2face. I think I’d rather get them in, and shorten the interview if I didn’t think the fit was there.

By: rwalling

rwalling — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:39:26 +0000

Thanks for the input, bj. I have to agree that hiring this quickly is not an ideal situation, but I’ve witnessed companies pull it off and achieve massive success because of it. So although it’s not easy or ideal, the rewards can be huge.

By: http://

http:// — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 04:18:42 +0000

if you need to hire that quickly, you are looking to fail.