The best hiring process for a small start up that's growing rapidly is to effectively let the founders, or the founding team, have won on one engagement with every candidate whos who's being hired. For large companies like google and microscope, they would interview someone for two, three months upon end before they make their decision. And then the last category of companies are the ones in between 500 and 1,000 people where the company can no longer interview every one on one. So i think, you know, for examplef if you're like a three person company and you just started, this might be over kill. Yet these companies are kind of caugd between a rock and a hard
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Nick Dimitrov, former Amazon Bar Raiser, teaches companies how to hire the best-quality talent that consistently raises their bar.
In episode #90, Nick talks about how leaders can acknowledge and eliminate hiring biases. He also shares who should have the final call on hiring decisions based on the size of a company.
We also talk about defining the bar of an organization and how smaller businesses can compete for talent with large corporations.
Tune in to hear all about Nicks’s hiring habits and the lessons learned along the way!