www.ericsink.com
SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
2004-07-08 15:59:32 Hazards of Hiring. Summary : Eric offers guidelines for handling tough hiring decisions in a small ISV. In the many e-mails I received about that column, one of the most common questions was why didnt I list any hiring mistakes. Hire After the Need, Not Before. About Eric. twitter.com/eric_sink.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
He just hired Meg Whitman. Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan. It helped that in the nuclear winter that followed the crash, 2001 – 2004, startups and VCs were extremely risk averse and amenable to new ideas that reduced risk.
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Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 30, 2021
But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. You rarely hear about the owners who took out second mortgages to make payroll or to hire a salesperson. You rarely hear about the major catastrophes followed by major miracles that brought the businesses back from the brink.
A Crowded Space
OCTOBER 3, 2018
I remember when I made that first flight out to San Francisco from Boston to meet the team in 2004, the company was down to its last $20K in the bank. Mistakes of Hiring Like most founding employees, people tend to ask me what lessons I learned throughout my tenure at the company (hence, this post).
Duct Tape Marketing
OCTOBER 5, 2023
In your experience, do you often work with companies lacking strategic hires, and do you assist in team building? Hey, John Jantsch (08:06): Have you ever tried to hire freelancers and found that the quality of work was lacking or you got all the outsourcing excuses as to why the work didn't get done on time? Do you see anything?
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 27, 2010
My original post was directed at hiring managers. It said that I didn’t believe it was a good idea to hire job hoppers. My view still stands – for many hiring managers a large factor in looking through resumes of somebody who is 30+ and has never worked somewhere for more than 18 months will be the job hopping element.
Transformify
OCTOBER 20, 2016
Back in 2014, Career Builder has published a research where 81 percent of hiring managers said it was at least “Somewhat Difficult” to fill open roles due to lack of skills, and 61 percent said they had an experience of hiring a person who was not totally qualified for the position. About Genashtim.
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