Hiring your first engineer at a startup is incredibly hard. As a founder, you’re already stretched dangerously thin on time.… Read On
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atrium
atrium
Recruiting
It’s hard to be successful as a manager and leader without a great team. This topic is all about tools and techniques to help you sell the opportunities on your team. 
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How to Recruit and Hire When You Need to Move Fast – Member Feature Stories – Medium
One of the biggest challenges a company faces as it scales is to revamp its recruiting and employee onboarding processes. When Twitter bought my startup, it had just 90 employees.…
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Medium
Medium
Hire More Women in Tech - eventsofa Campus
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eventsofa Campus
eventsofa Campus
Atlassian Boosted Its Female Technical Hires By 80% — Here’s How
As a diversity and inclusion leader, Aubrey Blanche is all about experiments backed up by research and data. Here, she shares what's worked and what hasn't at Atlassian.
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firstround.com
firstround.com
todogroup/job-descriptions
Open Source Program Job Descriptions. Contribute to todogroup/job-descriptions development by creating an account on GitHub.
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GitHub
GitHub
How To Recruit Talent—When You're Competing With Giants
When you're the underdog in a crowded market, recruiting top talent can be hard. We break down everything you need to say to come out on top.
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angel.co
angel.co
The Practical Dev
Executive Hires: The Case for Extreme Referencing
Hiring a strong executive management team is one of the most proven ways to ensure startup success. Yet, hiring executives is a very different undertaking than hiring for other roles…
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For Entrepreneurs
For Entrepreneurs
Job Description Examples (Updated 2018 - Free to Download)
Download a completely free sample job description template that covers the top job responsibilities, job duties, and requirements for over 500 different jobs.
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Betterteam
Betterteam
700+ Job Description Templates & Examples - 2019 Update | Workable
Never write any job descriptions from scratch. Use Workable’s 700+ Free job description templates and examples, updated for 2019, to attract great hires.
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Recruiting Resources: How to Recruit and Hire Better
Recruiting Resources: How to Recruit and Hire Better
Use This Easy Job Description Template for Your Company
Need a job description template to simplify the creation process? This example provides a working guide for your use.
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The Balance Careers
The Balance Careers
Our 6 Must Reads for Hiring Tactics that Break the Mold
Hiring at early-stage startups isn't getting easier. And while there's plenty of advice out there, it's tough to find tactics that make a mark. We've assembled the best tips from…
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firstround.com
firstround.com
Are you even trying? – Code Like A Girl
The hiring pipeline in tech is easy to blame. You’ve probably heard the excuses. Maybe made some of them yourself. I know I have. “There…
by: Better Allieson: Code Like A Girl
Code Like A Girl
lovedaybrooke/gender-decoder
Contribute to lovedaybrooke/gender-decoder development by creating an account on GitHub.
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GitHub
Diversity: It’s not them, it’s you
This CEO explains how he pushed himself out into underrepresented communities to broaden the pool of talent at his company.
by: Ryan Carsonon: 
Fast Company
Fast Company
Hiring: When The Water Reaches Your Waist, It’s Too Late, And Other Cautionary Tales
Hiring is hard. The following problems recur. If you see them, you can fix them.
by: Joe Dunnon: 
Medium
Medium
How To Hire World-Class Engineers
Hiring quality engineers is daunting. We interviewed 1,000+ startups to design the optimal funnel for hiring world-class engineers—regardless of your space or growth stage.
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angel.co
How to make your organization attractive to engineering talent - Code with Jason
The battle for engineering talent Virtually everywhere I’ve ever worked has always been desperate for good engineers. The bottleneck has never been “we don’t have enough money to hire as…
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Code with Jason
Code with JasonCareers at Glitch
We’re helping millions of people rediscover the fun parts of the internet. It’s an ambitious undertaking, so we’re hoping you can help us!
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About Glitch
About Glitch
Trouble hiring senior engineers? It's probably you - Hiring Engineers
Undeniably, hiring senior software engineers is hard. However, I don’t buy into the narrative that the market is completely dried out. Throughout my career, I’ve worked with many different engineering…
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How to hire an analytics engineer
Modern data warehouses have upended the way that data teams function. Increasingly, companies are hiring a new kind of technical analyst to bridge the gap between data engineers and data…
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dbt blog
dbt blog
Hiring and Managing World-Class Remote Teams, with Andreas Klinger — Woven Teams
Andreas is the Head of Remote at AngelList, the largest remote hiring job board in the world. After building multiple remote teams at companies like CoinList and Product Hunt, Andreas…
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Woven Teams
Woven Teams
My Lessons from Interviewing 400+ Engineers Over Three Startups
Engineering leader Marco Rogers (Lever, Yammer, Clover Health) debunks some of the most common recruiting tropes and walks through his four top interviewing practices for startups.
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firstround.com
firstround.com
Is Your Hiring Process Hurting Diversity?
Is your interview process putting diverse candidates at a disadvantage? Figure out if you can change your hiring process to build a more inclusive team.
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angel.co
angel.co
Hiring for Culture Fit Doesn’t Have to Undermine Diversity
Four common misconceptions are hurting companies’ talent strategies.
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Harvard Business Review
Harvard Business ReviewTopics
interview questions, scenarios, tests, processes...
A necessary evil. Posts on using meetings effectively.
Building diverse teams, and being an ally for underrepresented groups.
Small nuggets of wisdom and advice.
Heavy is the crown. Posts on ensuring the job doesn't overwhelm you.
Building your team's culture, and setting values and expectations.
Developing candidate pipelines, writing job descriptions that don't suck...
Exit interviews, layoffs, *gulp* firing someone...
When you're starting from scratch, and just need something you can adapt for your situation.
1:1 meeting advice, career ladders, promoting from within, feedback & praise...
Great resources for when you have more time (as if any of us ever do).
Openly-licensed materials you can adapt as you see fit.
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