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This sounds pretty interesting. We're currently in the process of hiring our first employee in our startup, so we're pretty amateurs at this. Here's what we di
by Maro 16y ago
This sounds pretty interesting.
We're currently in the process of hiring our first employee in our startup, so we're pretty amateurs at this. Here's what we did:
1. Find some sites to advertise the job. Wrote up a description of the position and made up two problems the interviewee must complete to apply (it's at http://scalien.com/pdf/job.pdf http://scalien.com/pdf/job.pdf but don't bother unless you're in Hungary =]). I guess if you could automate this part, eg. submission to a bunch of job sites, that'd be a killer feature I'd easily pay $5 for. Also, you could provide templates for the job description, reminders what not to leave out, host the files, etc.
2. Went to the local Universities and physically posted printed out ads. Your service could offer that somebody picks up the ads from our office and posts them for us so I don't have to waste my time doing it, I'd pay for that.
3. The person submits their CV and solutions per email. There's always a phase where I send the same template messages as an equalizer, I guess that could be automated, although it may be overkill. What could be nice, but only for a company with a lot of hiring, is to channel these emails to/from your service so you have a nice dashboard and history going back, etc. Again, it'd be nice if your service could provide reminders here, eg. did you remember to tell the guy what address to come to (eg. not the HQ but the other office).
4. Then the person comes in for the interview. Here we wrote up ~20 questions in a word processor and printed them out, we hold this in our hands and ask the interviewee the questions ("what's a JOIN?"). Your site could store these questions, so we could check them off "knows"/"doesn't know" style per interviewee, with an additional comment field. The service has to be really streamlined though, as at this point the guy is sitting across me and waiting for me to ask the next question. Your site could recommend a general flow / template for the interview, and I could maybe time myself on each segment, so as not to spend more time than 60 mins per interview. In our case I noticed that we spend 90 mins per interview, but things are pretty obvious at the 30-45 minute part, so helping me (and my co-founder) save time would easily translate to money.
5. ??? We actually haven't hired anyone, we're still deciding =)
Hope it helps.
- petervandijck 16y agoYes that helps, thanks a lot!
- Maro 16y agoYou could use a freemium model where registration and tracking the first two candidates is free, then you have to sign up. You should also try to contact other HNers who were active in this space, there may be an industry related catch you don't know about. I did this regarding a freelancer site idea, and learned interesting facts. And use a service like pickfu.com to test as much of your idea against real people as possible before writing a single LOC =) I tried this with my project idea, and it was interesting.