April 2024
Beginner
224 pages
4h 18m
English
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30Hiring Is a Hot Mess
An executive client of ours, a CEO of a tech startup, was interviewing for a new job after his old company had been sold. He was and is an amazing guy, a solid leader, and a hustler. He was originally brought into the tech startup, which was creating an app for the restaurant reservation industry, to lead strategy, organizational development, and commoditization of its portfolio of products. When he arrived there, the company was 100% funded by a handful of investors. When he left there, the business was sold to a MUCH bigger fish for over $15 million.
During his six years with that company, he learned everything you would need to know to run a small tech startup. From hiring the right people to managing the budgets to winning the hearts and minds of investors to building a solid engineering team, he had done it all.
When the time came and his CEO contract ended post-acquisition, he took a few months off to enjoy some time with his wife and two elementary school-aged children.
After taking some long overdue family vacations, getting to know his wife again (after regularly working 80-hour weeks), he dove back into the job search pool. He was referred to our company by a friend of his, and we created his resume, LinkedIn profile, and bio for a job search.
He started landing interviews almost immediately and was entertaining some pretty good offers. But unfortunately, they were all with similarly sized startups with all the same problems he'd faced in his ...
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