How To Hire Engineers: Step 0, What To Look For
This is the first in a series of articles on Hiring Engineers by Jocelyn Goldfein, Angel, Advisor. Formerly: Engineer @ Facebook, VMware,...
06/09/16
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Weak Ties Matter
"At Truss, we have 50% women engineers, and it didn’t happen by accident..." says Everett Harper
Healthy Hiring
I realized that as a founder I have both the opportunity and responsibility to prioritize diversity in our team and hiring practices says Salman.
Want to Diversify Your Company? Here’s Tech Talent to Consider #W2TD
Looking for a new opportunity in tech? Looking for tech talent? Tweet us with the hashtag #W2TD!
Are You Serious About Hiring Diverse Tech Talent?
Join our next recruiting event - we have just 2 spots left. By Shaherose Charania (CEO & co-founder, Women 2.0) We’ve all seen the stats. The...
Common Complaints from College Students on Tech Companies’ Recruiting Practices
An engineer who teaches at universities shares students recruiting pet peeves, and how companies can do better.
Why You Can’t Hire
The CEO of AngelList argues that the problem isn't too few developers; it's too many founders. Time to "throw out the old cap tables."
Startup Hiring Room
We've worked hard to ensure that women and other people typically under-represented at entrepreneurship conferences are very much a part of this event
By Sarah Milstein (Co-Host, The Lean Startup Conference)
What do startups need most these days? Great people to hire.
To help young companies find strong candidates, The Lean Startup Conference is hosting a Hiring Room, and we want to make sure women-led startups are represented.
How To Get Hired Doing What You Actually Love
Sharing brilliance to be better young entrepreneurs.
By Kelly Azevedo (Contributing Blogger, Young Entrepreneurs Council)
A recent Pew study reveals what many of us have already observed: re-employed workers — those who lose their jobs and are then hired elsewhere — are more likely to consider themselves overqualified for what becomes their current position and are less likely to get a sense of identify from their work. In other words, they end up at jobs they don’t really want.
Whether you’ve lost your job and are looking to be the exception to this rule, or you’d like to trade your current position for one that better matches your qualifications, here are three strategies to help you receive an offer for the job that you actually want:
Building A Team: What Can You Bring To The Table?
By Jean Hsu (Engineer, Obvious)
Discussions about hiring so often revolve around what you should look for in a candidate and how to evaluate their technical abilities and if they will fit in with the existing team.
The market is currently incredibly competitive in favor of engineers, so I’d like to turn the tables around and ask what companies can bring to the table in this relationship.
Could Your Bootstrapped Startup Use A Few Good Moms?
By Kerry Bowbliss & Sherry Lombardi (Co-Founders, Hulafrog)
Last year, we launched Hulafrog, a network of hyperlocal websites for moms. Each one is the “go-to” guide to life with kids around town. Hulafrog was born, like many startups, out of necessity. As new moms, we were on the never-ending quest for enriching activities and fun events for our kids and yearned for a simple way to find them. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a single website with everything from language lessons and soccer camps to parades and puppet shows to kid friendly restaurants and museums?
There wasn’t. So we built one. The prototype