This Week in Talent (2 August)

This week we share how you can source candidates on AirBnB, best hiring and onboarding practices when you are scaling up fast, ways to find STEM Talent, and more.
Enjoy these musings!


How to recruit and hire when you need to move fast

Advice from a Silicon Valley serial investor and entrepreneur, Elad Gil, on what to do when scaling up your workforce. Includes best practices on hiring and onboarding candidates – good read.

Here’s a quick way to source candidates on AirBnB

Wait, is this even possible? Jan Tegze has found a way to do it, click to learn more.

3 ways to find STEM Talent in tight labour markets

We’ve been hearing a lot about how difficult it is to find STEM Talent these days, but it is certainly not impossible. Here are three ideas that have worked for other companies that may work for you too.

Voice messaging on LinkedIn

Here’s another way you can reach out to your LinkedIn network. While convenient, we are not sure how candidates will respond to this or if they are going to listen to them at all. What do you think, will you use it?

Google spent a decade researching what makes a great boss. They came up with these 10 things

How do you know if you are working for a great boss? Are you aspiring to be one? Google attempts to define what makes a great boss and offers practical tips on how you can develop these behaviours.

12 hiring managers share their most bizarre interview experiences

Can it get any weirder? Let us know if you have encountered anything like this, or similar, before. We might start a list!


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