How to ace your first ten hires

Your first team builds the foundation that your startup will stand on.”

10+ years of experience condensed into one-week bootcamp on hiring for early-stage founders.

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Inga Driksne

Operations Advisor & Hiring Expert to early stage founders. 10+ years experience working with tech startups.

3 live sessions of 90' starting on:
Coming soon
Time commitment
6 hours
Price
TBC

Do you feel like this? 👇

1.

I’m over worked and I know I need to hire someone to support me, but I don’t know who.

2.

I’ve exhausted my network, so where do I find more high quality candidates?

3.

What is the correct process for hiring someone? I have no experience in this!

After the bootcamp 🚀

1.

Get clarity on how to attract talent, which positions you need to hire for and what steps to take next.

2.

Build an active pipeline of top talent using a network referral framework and start your outreach.

3.

Structure an effective, diverse assessment process & interview potential hires with confidence.

People I've worked with
Dan Hully
Co-founder, Quantico

high-growth fintech startup

“Inga was transformative to our recruitment team at a time when it was critical that we got it right. Her proactivity and passion for finding the best solutions and talent meant she had a significant and long-lasting impact on our hiring process and growth overall".

Mia Roe-Edema
Head of People, Duel Tech

Pre-series A startup

"When applying for Duel, I didn’t have any previous tech or startup experience. Inga created a process that screened all candidates based on culture and transferable skills giving a range of different applicants the opportunity to excel.

Fast forward 4 years down the line and I have grown from a junior position to the Head of People at Duel, and still carry Inga’s ethos of hiring within the business today."

James Gill
Founder/CEO, GoSquared

Bootstrapped SaaS startup

“Inga totally transformed how we hire. From defining our pipeline process to developing a hiring framework that enabled us to attract diverse and ideal-fit candidates, and ultimately helped us establish a world-class team of Marketing, Product, and Customer Success people.”

WHAT TO EXPECT

Who is this for?

You are a first-time or an early-stage tech founder, looking to or actively growing your team now.

You'll join a group of like-minded, ambitious founders from a variety of backgrounds, keen to grow their startups with the right people on their team.

Tangible outcomes

  • Have a clear hiring plan

  • Build an active network of top talent

  • Structure an effective, diverse assessment and interview process

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Applications close on 22 April

Your instructor

Inga Driksne

Operations Advisor & Hiring Expert to early stage founders. 10+ years experience working with tech startups.

  • Operations Lead & Talent Advisor to early stage founders. Specialised in supporting fast-growing startups like Quantico, Guider (Founders Factory) and GoSquared.

  • Mentor on Hiring and Onboarding at Founders Institute to first time founders.

  • 10+ years experience working with seed-round tech startups across a broad range of industries including gaming, recruitment, SaaS and fintech.

  • Scaled the first team I worked with from 20 to 100+ employees at IONIQ Group (formerly HitFox Group) - now a global team of 1,200 across 10 locations.

Start date
Coming soon
Cohort length
1 week
Time commitment
6 hours
Price
TBC
Learning experience

The most effective & fun way to learn

Learn by doing

Practice the skills you learn and start applying these to solve real challenges

Exclusive insights

Leverage your instructor and your peers' experiences to access unparalleled insights

Strong network

Engage with other ambitious people like you to build a strong network

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Curriculum

Transformational experience

01.

THE "WHO"

Have a clear hiring plan

There are 5 key things that will set you up for success before you start hiring.

Get clarity on how to attract talent, which positions you need to hire for and what steps to take next. Then build a scorecard for your next hire.

Finish off with a case study on how to hire technical talent.

02.

THE "WHERE"

Build an active network of top talent

The war for talent is at its peak, with engineering and product roles being the trickiest to fill. Finding the right people for you will be your biggest challenge but your network is key.

Apply a referral framework to build your list of top talent (A Players) and start your outreach now.

03.

THE "HOW"

Structure an effective, diverse assessment and interview process

Interviewing is often where things go wrong. In addition, lack of structure, due diligence, bias hiring and rushing through the process are some of the most common mistakes founders make.

Structure your own diverse assessment and interview process to hire the best talent for you.

Wrap up with hearing from our guest speaker Ben Gateley, CEO & Co-founder of CharlieHR.

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