Venture Scaler

Venture Scaler

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  • How To Hire: Sourcing Your Candidates (Part 3)

    In this episode, learn how to attract and source candidates before you have a recognizable brand! Plus, try your hand at talent mapping to identify the right profile to ensure you attract high-fit employees! This video is part of our free, online 6-video crash course on “How to Hire At Your Startup” available on our YouTube channel.

    Topics Covered
    • Attracting and sourcing candidates
    • How to find companies to recruit from
    • Why talent mapping
    • Finding the best person for the role
    • The best tools for sourcing
    • 🔥 Sign up for the Venture Scaler Newsletter: https://venturescaler.substack.com/ - Never miss an update and get access to bonus videos, special content, and detailed guides and playbooks.

      Resources
      • AngelList 
      • Glassdoor
      • Crunchbase
      • Gregslist
      • Linkedin Recruiter Lite
      • ABOUT VENTURE SCALER:

        👋 Hi, we’re Sasha & Jake - and this is Venture Scaler. On the show, we’re talking all things growth as it pertains to people ops and operations. Sasha is “People” (3x Head of People at VC-backed companies) and Jake is “Ops” (3x Ops/Growth Leader at VC-backed companies, Ex-Uber), and together we’re going to tell you all of our best tips on how to grow your business for things like hiring, onboarding, org planning, managing growth, scaling and MORE, if you can believe it!

        If you’re a founder, CEO or people leader, we’re going to be giving you actionable advice in areas where people tend to get stuck. So if you’re like, “Okay, we just raised a round… now what??” Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. We’re going to get into the nitty gritty so you know exactly what to do to grow and scale your teams and your business.

        Venture Scaler: Helping founders write the playbook to scale their startup.

        Sponsored by, Trainual.


        17 min
      • How To Hire: Designing Your Roles & Interview Process (Part 2)

        Learn which parts of the interview, hiring, and onboarding process you can streamline by putting in the work upfront, what actionable steps you can take to ensure you hire the BEST candidate for your business, and how to define and document aspects of your hiring process, so you’re ready to scale! This video is part of our free, online 6-video crash course on “How to Hire At Your Startup” available on our YouTube channel.

        Topics Covered
        • Streamlining the interview, hiring, and onboarding process
        • Actionable steps to find the best candidate
        • Define and document your hiring process
        • 🔥 Sign up for the Venture Scaler Newsletter: https://venturescaler.substack.com/ - Never miss an update and get access to bonus videos, special content, and detailed guides and playbooks.

          Resources
          – Job Description / Impact Description
          – Job Scorecard
          – Job Scorecard Example (People Ops Generalist)
          – Hiring Checklist (job description, interview squad, interview questions, and email communications)


          ABOUT VENTURE SCALER:

          👋 Hi, we’re Sasha & Jake - and this is Venture Scaler. On the show, we’re talking all things growth as it pertains to people ops and operations. Sasha is “People” (3x Head of People at VC-backed companies) and Jake is “Ops” (3x Ops/Growth Leader at VC-backed companies, Ex-Uber), and together we’re going to tell you all of our best tips on how to grow your business for things like hiring, onboarding, org planning, managing growth, scaling and MORE, if you can believe it!

          If you’re a founder, CEO or people leader, we’re going to be giving you actionable advice in areas where people tend to get stuck. So if you’re like, “Okay, we just raised a round… now what??” Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. We’re going to get into the nitty gritty so you know exactly what to do to grow and scale your teams and your business.

          Venture Scaler: Helping founders write the playbook to scale their startup.

          Sponsored by, Trainual.

          25 min
        • Startup Leader Interview: Tom Spengler PrimeGov Exec Chairman

          In this interview with Tom Spengler, Executive Chairman at PrimeGov, we’re talking about how to scale your startup... Tom is PrimeGov’s, Executive Chairman. He has over 20 years of domain experience as the Co-founder and former CEO of Granicus from 1999 to 2015. Tom is passionate about improving government through technology and has helped bring several marketing leadings products to market over the past 20 years. Tom also sits on the Board of Directors for a number of technology companies including Propylon and Ascendify.

          Bio: https://www.primegov.com/tom-spengler

          Key talking points:

          1. Best decision their team made after their series A
          2. What to focus on 12-18 mo after raising capital OR when scaling quickly
          3. How the CEO role changes through business growth
          4. Talking through Tom's favorite stages of growth
          5. How to build a recruiting culture and the questions to find the right talent
          6. What to consider when designing compensation and diversity philosophies
          7. When to hire key executives/leaders and which executives to hire
          8. The biggest differences between company building in AZ and SF
          9. #1 piece of advice for company builders

          10. 🔥 Sign up for the Venture Scaler Newsletter: https://venturescaler.substack.com/ - Never miss an update and get access to bonus videos, special content, and detailed guides and playbooks.   

            Checkout the full show notes here!

            ABOUT VENTURE SCALER: 

            👋 Hi, we’re Sasha & Jake - and this is Venture Scaler. On the show, we’re talking all things growth as it pertains to people ops and operations. Sasha is “People” (3x Head of People at VC-backed companies) and Jake is “Ops” (3x Ops/Growth Leader at VC-backed companies, Ex-Uber), and together we’re going to tell you all of our best tips on how to grow your business for things like hiring, onboarding, org planning, managing growth, scaling and MORE, if you can believe it!  

            If you’re a founder, CEO or people leader, we’re going to be giving you actionable advice in areas where people tend to get stuck. So if you’re like, “Okay, we just raised a round… now what??” Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. We’re going to get into the nitty gritty so you know exactly what to do to grow and scale your teams and your business.  

            Venture Scaler: Helping founders write the playbook to scale their startup.  

            Sponsored by, Trainual.

            52 min
          11. How To Hire: Setting Up Your Hiring Systems (Part 1)

            Learn how to create V1 of your employer brand, the key systems to set up to hire at scale, and how to facilitate an incredible candidate experience! This is part of a 6-part crash course on “How to Hire At Your Startup.”

            Topics Covered
            • Employer brand
            • The key systems to set up to hire at scale
            • How to facilitate an incredible candidate experience

            • 🔥 Sign up for the Venture Scaler Newsletter: https://venturescaler.substack.com/ - Never miss an update and get access to bonus videos, special content, and detailed guides and playbooks.

              Resources

              Your first step in establishing your employer brand is setting up your (free) accounts on:

              Glassdoor
              AngelList
              LinkedIn

              Applicant Tracking Systems (not a comprehensive list by any means)

              Lever
              Jobvite
              AngelList
              Stackoverflow
              Recruiterbox
              Ziprecruiter
              Greenhouse
              Zoho
              BreezyHR
              JazzHR
              BambooHR

              Check out the full show notes here!

              ABOUT VENTURE SCALER:

              👋 Hi, we’re Sasha & Jake - and this is Venture Scaler. On the show, we’re talking all things growth as it pertains to people ops and operations. Sasha is “People” (3x Head of People at VC-backed companies) and Jake is “Ops” (3x Ops/Growth Leader at VC-backed companies, Ex-Uber), and together we’re going to tell you all of our best tips on how to grow your business for things like hiring, onboarding, org planning, managing growth, scaling and MORE, if you can believe it!

              If you’re a founder, CEO or people leader, we’re going to be giving you actionable advice in areas where people tend to get stuck. So if you’re like, “Okay, we just raised a round… now what??” Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. We’re going to get into the nitty gritty so you know exactly what to do to grow and scale your teams and your business.

              Venture Scaler: Helping founders write the playbook to scale their startup.

              Sponsored by, Trainual.

              17 min
            • Venture Scaler, Coming Soon!

              👋 ABOUT VENTURE SCALER:

              Hi, we’re Sasha & Jake - and this is Venture Scaler. On the show, we’re talking all things growth as it pertains to people ops and operations. Sasha is “People” (3x Head of People at VC-backed companies) and Jake is “Ops” (3x Ops/Growth Leader at VC-backed companies, Ex-Uber), and together we’re going to tell you all of our best tips on how to grow your business for things like hiring, onboarding, org planning, managing growth, scaling... and MORE, if you can believe it!

              If you’re a founder, CEO or people leader, we’re going to be giving you actionable advice in areas where people tend to get stuck. So if you’re like, “Okay, we just raised a round… now what??” Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. We’re going to get into the nitty-gritty so you know exactly what to do to grow and scale your teams and your business.

              Venture Scaler: Helping founders write the playbook to scale their startup.

              Brought to you by:

              • Sasha Robinson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sasharobinson/
              • Jake Huber: https://www.linkedin.com/in/huberjake/
              • 🔥 Sign up for the Venture Scaler Newsletter: https://venturescaler.substack.com/ - Never miss an update and get access to bonus videos, special content, and detailed guides and playbooks.

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              Hi, we’re Sasha and Jake - and this is Venture Scaler. On the show, we’re talking all things growth as it pertains to people ops and operations. Sasha is “People” (3x Head of People at VC-backed…