Hire Smart from the Start, Dave Carvajal
Hire Smart from the Start, Dave Carvajal
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Hire Smart from the Start
The Entrepreneur's Guide to Finding, Catching, and Keeping the Best Talent for Your Company

Author: Dave Carvajal

Narrator: L.J. Ganser

Unabridged: 6 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/22/2018


Synopsis

Don't rely on instincts alone. Hiring. Is. King. The lesson seems so basic. Yet time after time, good companies stumble and lose their stride - just when they were poised for rapid growth. Why? Because their leaders treated hiring as a tedious chore. They posted an ad hoc ad. Took the first person with the right skills. Hired for immediate needs, rather than future flourishing. In Hire Smart from the Start, Dave Carvajal distills lessons gained from 20 years in the trenches, building out and staffing two enormously successful Internet startups and helping firms like Tumblr, Buddy Media, and Shutterstock land the talent they need to reach their greatest potential. Whether you're a high-tech entrepreneur taking a startup public, or a food truck vendor with a concept that's taking off, this book offers a proven formula to help you: - Find candidates whose values and working style fit your business - Spot the 5 types of applicants you should never, ever hire - Motivate "reach" candidates to leave their jobs and take a chance on your vision - Develop meaningful incentives that make people stay - And more Accelerate success: hire smart from the start. This book shows you how.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Boyko on January 10, 2022

The examples and strategies employed in this book may not seem very innovative or special, but they lay the foundation of an objective/realistic approach to hiring and recruiting indeed. At the end of the day, it is not just the skills and qualifications, but also the personality and the candidate's......more

Goodreads review by Sindy on March 09, 2021

The author masterfully shares the experience and wisdom acquired throughout his professional career as a recruiter. He transmits his knowledge, experiences, skills and tools in an enjoyable, efficient, orderly and accessible way for any reader. It's a very useful read for any entrepreneur who wants......more

Goodreads review by Uģis on January 14, 2021

This book is for you if you're a business owner with a solid hiring process in place. I'm in this position and found the book worth my time. You'll pick up some high-level nuggets that will improve your hiring. Some of my takeaways were: - wimpy goals attract wimpy people. If you want the best people......more

Goodreads review by Aman on March 07, 2021

Quite a great book and gives a fantastic perspective of "values-based hiring" as against the usual norm of "skill-based hiring". The book talks about what questions should be asked to a candidate to uncover certain traits. 4 stars because the book doesn't talk in detail about how to interpret candid......more

Goodreads review by Rohit on July 05, 2019

Hire smart from the start is written by 'Dave Carvajal'. It is a self help book. It is good to know how to hire and what kind of mistake entrepreneur do when they are hiring a candidate. what kind of value and mission we should to keep in mind. it is not as like that Hire Smart for the company,this......more