Hiring the right people, especially after fund raising, is one of the biggest challenges facing startup founders. You face intense competition for great candidates and you are desperate to have more resource available immediately, but if you hire the wrong people you could miss key milestones you have promised investors you'll achieve. No pressure, then!
In the latest episode of the business podcast Scaling, Failing and Prevailing, Adelina Chalmers and James Parton talk to recruitment expert Katherine Wiid about the pitfalls and best practice of writing compelling and inclusive job ads, interviewing and candidate assessment.
Katherine helps others to make appointments, and helps startups to recruit the right people. She is a specialist at decoding people's motivation at work, just by listening to their language patterns.
Image: James, Katherine and Adelina
More about the podcast hosts
Adelina is known as The Geek Whisperer and works in tech start-ups and corporates, enabling geeks at all levels to talk to each other. She also helps startups from Cambridge University to secure investment.
James has worked in corporate innovation and experienced the fabled unicorn journey in the USA. Today he runs the Bradfield Centre in Cambridge where they help tech companies scale.
The podcast is produced by Carl Homer (Cambridge TV) and the branding was created by Tanya and Anne-Marie at Carbon Orange.
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