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P. CaldwellPeople Opshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9819-0_5

5. Recruitment

Patrick Caldwell1  
(1)
London, UK
 

Now that we’ve looked under the hood at leadership, culture, and inclusion that sit throughout every part of the People space, it’s time we tackle the very start of how our people experience startups: recruitment. This chapter is bittersweet. The state of recruitment has a long way to come, but hopefully after this chapter, you’ll be excited as I am by what is possible if we reframe recruitment in a more people-centric way.

In 2022, I decided to run a bit of an experiment and set up an Ask-HR-Anything thread on a careers forum. The forum is anonymous ...

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