<aside> ℹ️ This template is meant to help you streamline your hiring process. Most of the structure and formats are based on Who: The A Method for Hiring by Geoff Smart and Randy Street. Note that this is my personal interpretation of the method, and includes tips and suggestions based on my own experience with the method. Furthermore, I have included several insights and tips from Matt Mochary as described in The Great CEO Within.
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<aside> ⚠️ Before you start hiring for a specific role, you will need to make sure that you have a hiring plan that aligns with the companies trajectory, as well as clarity about what role you are hiring for and what this means for the individual and for the organization. The below bullet points will help you think about the most important points to clarify 👇🏼
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<aside> ℹ️ The scorecard lists out the skills, traits, and qualifications someone needs to have in order to be successful in the new role. The interview process will be structured to test candidates based on these attributes. When complete, the hiring team, led by the hiring manager, will know exactly who and what to look for.
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<aside> ℹ️ There are many websites (ZipRecruiter, Indeed, Angellist) on which you can publish your available roles, and there are plenty of services for your hiring process & pipeline (Lever, Rippling), some of which allowing you to embed job listings directly on your website.
Being a Notion fan, I prefer creating my job listings in Notion. I still use external services to help market the job listing to more people. The below template Careers @ Company (Template) can be used to create your job page, and the database below contains a template for creating individual job listings. For scalability purposes, both pages make use of the Job pages | Synced Building Blocks.
If you like using LLM’s, you could also consider creating your Job Listings by simply copy-pasting your ScoreCard into your preferred tool (e.g. ChatGPT, Bard, other).
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Generic company jobs page
Synced building blocks
Job pages | Synced Building Blocks
Database for creating your job listings:
<aside> ℹ️ Besides getting candidates to apply through your job listings (inbound), sourcing candidates involves actively identifying potential hires and reaching out to them through various channels such as job sites, social media, and referrals (outbound).
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There are two main sources for actively finding candidates: