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Startup, VC backed and growth-stage technology company news and advice.: June 2013
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Wednesday, 26 June 2013. Build Your Own Talent Pool. By Jeff Haden from Inc.com. Secret No. 1: Always be looking. You're missing prime opportunities if you wait to recruit until you need someone- anyone! To fill a position. Online tools, LinkedIn in particular, make it easier than ever for small businesses without dedicated HR staffs to recruit and hire employees. This time I talked to Chris Sargent, the managing director of Akascia. An executive search firm for predominately pre-IPO tech startups. I dou...
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Startup, VC backed and growth-stage technology company news and advice.: February 2012
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Wednesday, 15 February 2012. Heidrick and Struggles, struggle to find cultural fit? Okay, so it was something they discovered three years ago but for some reason it was highlighted in an article I read recently here: http:/ www.forbes.com/sites/georgebradt/2011/04/27/top-executive-recruiters-agree-there-are-only-three-key-job-interview-questions/. However, I wonder if those services need to be paid for or are included as part of the search? Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts ( Atom ). The Job Board ...
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Startup, VC backed and growth-stage technology company news and advice.: Build Your Own Talent Pool
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Wednesday, 26 June 2013. Build Your Own Talent Pool. By Jeff Haden from Inc.com. Secret No. 1: Always be looking. You're missing prime opportunities if you wait to recruit until you need someone- anyone! To fill a position. Online tools, LinkedIn in particular, make it easier than ever for small businesses without dedicated HR staffs to recruit and hire employees. This time I talked to Chris Sargent, the managing director of Akascia. An executive search firm for predominately pre-IPO tech startups. I dou...
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Startup, VC backed and growth-stage technology company news and advice.: Why you should choose Akascia to find awesome people for your startup.
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Friday, 29 November 2013. Why you should choose Akascia to find awesome people for your startup. They say a picture paints a thousand words so we've put together a short series of infographics to show how much we rock! Here's the first one, we hope you enjoy it and keep us in mind next time you want to hire someone kickass in EMEA or APAC! Does your company scream 'I should be an Akascia client'? Do you want to work with a vibrant, challenging firm that doesn't accept anything average? If You Liked This.
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Startup, VC backed and growth-stage technology company news and advice.: 7 Quick pointers on how leading Tech VCs go about building unbeatable teams.
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Monday, 24 November 2014. 7 Quick pointers on how leading Tech VCs go about building unbeatable teams. A company becomes the people it hires. If you don’t hire people for a billion-dollar company, you are not going to get there. Once a trajectory is set by the first 10 – 15 people you hire, it is very difficult to change. It’s OK to find somebody who’s had academy experience (e.g. IBM, Microsoft, Oracle) as long as they’ve done a startup after that before coming to you. Be c...Enter your email address to...
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Startup, VC backed and growth-stage technology company news and advice.: The Job Board is Dead, Long Live Social Media...
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Monday, 7 November 2011. The Job Board is Dead, Long Live Social Media. Are you one of the 120 million registered users of LinkedIn? Or one of the 800 million people active on Facebook? Or one of around 100 million people who regularly tweet? These numbers are staggering right? Now think of it from the perspective of job hunting - how many people can you reach or how many people can reach you? The possibilities are pretty endless and it's relatively easily to manage if you do it right. Another positive f...
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Startup, VC backed and growth-stage technology company news and advice.: 8 Average Methods for Hiring Average People for Average Teams.
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Monday, 24 November 2014. 8 Average Methods for Hiring Average People for Average Teams. 1 “We post adverts on LinkedIn. We really get a great response with lots of applications.”. Please, let’s get one thing straight; job adverts suck for finding the very best, top 5% of candidates! They are the number one average way to hire average people. In our experience, they just generate a lot of admin overhead! The problem is that the results are too hit and miss. You get a glut of CVs in the first week but...
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Startup, VC backed and growth-stage technology company news and advice.: Why Retained?
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Monday, 8 April 2013. At Akascia, we believe retained search. Is a lot like flying first class. We believe it is the hands-down best way of finding the best possible people you can hire. The biggest difference in our case is that you get all the first class experience for no more than the price of the economy fare. Who wouldn’t travel first class if the cost was the same as an economy ticket? We deliver the first-class experience; the extras, the attention to detail, the market insight, the turning of ev...
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Startup, VC backed and growth-stage technology company news and advice.: November 2012
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Wednesday, 7 November 2012. The Secret Life of a CEO. This article is the first in a series of conversations we're having with technology CEOs to bring you more insight in to how they see their roles, the challenges they face, what keeps them up at night (not as exciting as you might think) and what they do day-to-day to ensure the continued success of their business. Bikash, can you tell me about some of the things you're doing right now? And what's your biggest challenge at the moment? I'm sure many ot...
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Startup, VC backed and growth-stage technology company news and advice.: November 2013
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Friday, 29 November 2013. Why you should choose Akascia to find awesome people for your startup. They say a picture paints a thousand words so we've put together a short series of infographics to show how much we rock! Here's the first one, we hope you enjoy it and keep us in mind next time you want to hire someone kickass in EMEA or APAC! Does your company scream 'I should be an Akascia client'? Do you want to work with a vibrant, challenging firm that doesn't accept anything average? Links to this post.
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