A lot of people, companies, and research have contributed to my recruiting philosophy. Throughout the presentation are links to that content, if you're interested in learning more. I've grouped them by best practice and sorted them in the order they were shared in the presentation. The links directly below will advance you to that particular chapter (saves you from scrolling).
- Best Practice 1: Show Your Feathers
- Best Practice 2: Do Your Research
- Best Practice 3: Be The Flame
- Best Practice 4: Let Them Shine
- Best Practice 5: Be Brave
- Best Practice 6: Check-In & Tune-Up
- Best Practice 7: Show The Total Package
- Best Practice 8: Image Attribution
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Best Practice 1: Show Your Feathers
- Careers Page Example: Wistia
- Careers Page Example: Mindvalley
- Brag About The Work: Stripe
- Company Yearbook Example: Aha!
- Meaningful Perks & Benefits Example: Fog Creek
Best Practice 2: Do Your Research
- Hold a Kickoff Meeting With Hiring Manager
- Conduct a DILO Interview
- Design the Candidate Scorecard
- Candidate Scorecard Template
- Top Candidates Gets Scooped Quickly
- Candidate Scorecard Example: accolo
- Download Pre-formatted Candidate Scorecard
- The Interview Plan Outlines
Best Practice 3: Be The Flame
- Painting a Picture
- Remove Any “Gender-Coded” Language From Your Ad
- Be The Flame
- Attend Events That Will Attract a Variety of People/Specialties
- Follow Gary Vaynerchuk’s Advice for Finding Candidates Online
- Distributed Teams Advice: Buffer
- Distributed Teams Advice: Meet Edgar
Best Practice 4: Let Them Shine
- Make Recruiting an Act of Qualification
- Teach Candidates How to Prepare a Winning Application
- Give Candidates More Opportunities to Show What Makes Them an Asset
- Like a Small Assignment
- Ditch the Brain Teasers During Interviews
- Interview Guide
Best Practice 5: Be Brave
- Examine Their Real Reasons
- For Culture Fit Rejections, Question
- Here are Some Good Culture Fit Questions
- Know How to Reject Candidates
Best Practice 6: Check-In & Tune-Up
- Glassdoor
- Candidate Experience Survey Example #1
- Candidate Experience Survey Example #2
- Net Promoter Score
- Meet Weekly With Talent Team
- Robert Haff: 2016 Time to Hire Survey
- Make Hiring Decisions Within Seven Days
- Have the Hiring Manager Give Feedback
- Use Tools Like an Online Scheduler
- Publish Your Results by Sending Monthly Recaps
Best Practice 7: Show The Total Package
Image Attribution
I couldn't have made this presentation fancy without all the great imagery that are on about half the slides. The last slide is a picture of my niece from years ago, the rest I found online.
- Polaroid by Daniel Beaton via Subtle Patterns
- Portrait of a smiling business woman by julief514
- wocintech stock – 148 by WOCinTech Chat
- Hand shake by creisinger
- Hand drawn heart by Melica
- Peacock stock 9 by Random-Acts-Stock
- Love by ahermin
- Opposites Always Attract by Frances23
- Shy eyes by orioto
- First Impression by Machi-x3
- Questioning by blinkutza
- Pupil with graduate shadow in classroom by Wavebreakmedia
- Kickoff by Baggie23
- Stop. by SpongySponge
- The library by Sodaso
- Ye ole mechanic glasses by Spiked-Fox
- Two colleagues sticking adhesive notes to wall by pikselstock
- Yer mouth…ZIP IT by maidinmetal
- wocintech (microsoft) – 62 by WOCinTech Chat
- Chasing Goals by NadavDov
- Successful business woman by andresr
- Scoreboard by stillsoyoung
- wocintech (microsoft) – 164 by WOCinTech Chat
- Dreaming the Same Dream by goRillA-iNK
- Young woman running outdoors in a city park by lightpoet
- Cranberry Ice Cream 4 by laurenjacob
- Paint Colors by manqeqe
- Flame 01 by Lucy-Eth-Stock
- Social Networking Friends Diagram by ArenaCreative
- .this fine social scene by mi4
- Group of friends laugh and chat together round dining table by RapidEye
- Coffee break at business meeting. by kasto
- Young happy girl runs through a flock of pigeons on the square in summer city park by arkusha
- The British red phone booth on old wall by WDGPhoto
- Gym woman push-up strength pushup with dumbbell by lunamarina
- 3D building by Freepik
- Business woman by SimpleIcon
- Newspaper by Madebyoliver
- Snowflake by Freepik
- Business team winning a trophy by michaeljung
- shine. by Whole-Heartingly
- Alarm clock by Freepik
- Classroom by Freepik
- Edit by Freepik
- Talking by Freepik
- wocintech stock – 65 by WOCinTech Chat
- Wooden brain teaser by Vrabelpeter1
- Hourglass by Freepik
- Interview by Becris
- Parking by Freepik
- Tie by Freepik
- Woman with afro sticking her tongue out by pikselstock
- Climber hanging on her hand by AlexBrylov
- Road to Khora Sfakion by igabriela
- Pick your Poison by KimberleePhotography
- Women In Tech – 82 by WOCinTech Chat
- Thinking Woman by keeweeboy
- Young female mechanic working with welding torch on vehicle machinery part in auto repair shop by londondeposit
- Run… by Nelleke
- wocintech (microsoft) – 135 by WOCinTech Chat
- wocintech (microsoft) – 28 by WOCinTech Chat
- wocintech stock – 114 by WOCinTech Chat
- City night traffic view by chungking
- Retro woman by azsoslumakarna
- Present by annakhomulo
- Massage spa body treatment by Freepik
- Piggy bank by Gregor Cresnar
- Tooth zoom by Freepik
- Train by Freepik
- African American woman using a laptop in her living room by sam741002
- Blocks by The-name1ess
- Present by olly18