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Secret tips for effective startup hiring and recruiting - Jade Rubick These articles read together give a sense of what a really good hiring process could look like. Rubrick’s article starts well before the job ad goes out, and continues well past the hiring of any one candidate; it’s about strategy, pipeline, and iterating. But it’s intended to quite a wide audience, so doesn’t go into the details of interviewing for a particular type of role, which is where Cheung’s steps in. Rubick’s article starts...
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Writing Better Job Ads - Eli Weinstock-Herman This is a nice lengthy post on writing job ads. And given what I see scanning job ads for research computing team managers, the advice is needed! There’s too much for me to completely summarize, but some key points A Job Ad is a Landing Page… A job ad is marketing. An advertisement. I can’t agree with this enough. Even if what you have to post on your institutional jobs website is constrained to have to have all...
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Use a candidate packet to improve your interview process - Jade Rubick Last week we looked at Rubick’s advice on hiring and recruiting, and one part was to provide a packet of information about the job, the work, and the organization to candidates after initial screening. Here Rubick goes into more details on what to consider including: Details on the interview process Why the organization is important, what you’re trying to do How work works - remote if that’s relevant, or offices Benefits Salary bands...
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Tell candidates what to expect from your job interviews - Julia Evans The goal of the interview process is to find out if there’s a good match between the job and the candidate; that’s more likely to happen if both the candidate and the interviewers are clear on what the process will be. Julia Evans points out that it’s straightforward and useful to document the process and communicate it to candidates ahead of time. The candidate will better know what’s important to the interviewers, and...
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