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The founder’s guide to making your first few hires — Steven Bartel on recruiting at Gem & Dropbox

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Recruiting Out of Network - How Did You Know It Was Time to Scale Out?

As we started to scale out the team and have more of our founding team helping with recruiting, we discovered that it was really helpful to have a steady drum beat of things we could invite people to. Having some sort of compelling reason or thing to have people swing by for made it feel a lot more natural to reach out to their network. Sourcing has always, for us, been purely agative. On top of that, i would say that we started to source out of network when we started to have specialized rolls that we might not have as big f a network for. That was also an interesting place to use agencies in certain key select ways. One of the main benefits of doing that

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