Hiring great talent that’s a strong corporate culture fit is one of the top responsibilities of a CEO, regardless of being a startup or established company. As part of hiring great talent there are three main areas to think through: casting a wide net to get candidates into the recruiting pipeline, assessing their culture fit and ability to do the job, and finally convincing the select few to join the team. For many types of positions there are plenty of quality candidates and the hiring process becomes the challenging area.
Here are three unconventional steps for the hiring process:
- Written essays for all positions – a candidate’s ability to write correlates with the ability to do the job, regardless of position, more than anything else
- Culture checks by the founders and/or culture team – have people in the hiring process that are exclusively assessing corporate culture fit to build the strongest culture possible and to add checks and balances for hiring managers that get anxious to fill a position
- Unanimous approval – require 100% yeses from everyone involved in the hiring process regardless of seniority or position
The idea isn’t to make the process as burdensome as possible but rather to build the best team. Spending more time in the hiring process makes sense considering the extensive amount of time you’ll spend with the person once they’re hired.
What else? What are some other unconventional steps for the hiring process?
David Cummings on Startups 
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I like the idea of a unanimous approval. It makes sense that the people involved in the hiring process agree about who should work for the company. Great idea!!!
Loved this article…. completely agree.
Great insight