Recruiting from Scratch

Halloween is practically here. 🎃 👻 And if you're job seeking, that can mean dealing with some spooky interviewers. The New York Post featured our founder Will Sanders to discuss monstrous job interviewers you may encounter during your search. But don't get too scared - there's definitely tips for making the best of these situations and coming out ahead! Check it out.

If you're interviewing in these last few months of 2024, you're likely going to be asked "What could you bring to [xyz] company?" or some variation of this question. We highly recommend preparing for this question in advance. As long as you're excited about a role and meet most of the qualifications - you should definitely have something to say here! 📣 Read our advice on why interviewers ask this question + how to answer on the blog.

Great work Grecia Martinez 👏👏👏 Partnering with Paraform, Grecia filled two highly-specialized, senior engineering roles with candidates who weren't even job searching. How? Two great qualities: she's extremely intentional with who she sends to clients AND she's upfront. The results speak for themselves. 👏

This month's RFS Report is here. 📬 We've added a lot of new roles in the last week or two with some great companies. Send us an application today if you find one that sounds like a fit!

We love it when our candidates are happy after working with us. 🎉 We never push our candidates into roles that aren't right for them, and try to send updates as often as possible during the interview process. And we try to make interviewing a collaborative process, not a "take it or leave it." Shoutout to one of our recent placements for sharing their thoughts with us!

The September job market is heating up. 🔥 As recruiters, we're seeing a decent amount of applications. BUT more and more roles open everyday to meet this demand. If you're a candidate, we always recommend some brief reflection before you start the search. And one of the questions to ask yourself should always be: what stage and size of a company do I want to work for? In our resources for candidates, we break down what to do if you think you want a job at a startup, mid-size company, or large corporation. Check it out.

We recently shared a post on our blog about the changes in hiring we've seen over the last five years. 🤟 When you work in recruiting, no day is the same - let alone each year. And - we've learned a thing or two from 2020 through now! We're breaking down how we'd summarize each year in one word, our main learnings, and our advice for future job seekers and hiring managers. Check it out.

#ThrowbackThursday to the time I had a Billboard in Times Square! I came to New York five years ago and started building Recruiting from Scratch. There’s been a lot of ups and downs over the last few years - which come with the territory of running your own company - but I’m filing being featured on a billboard in Times Square under the “wins.” Super proud of our team for their work that brought us to this point. Thanks again to Brex for this opportunity! And as we head into September surge hiring, remember... Recruiting can be time consuming. But it doesn’t have to be. 

If you've helped your company hire before, we want to hear from you. Even in markets when there are more candidates in supply, we hear stories of why certain roles are hard to fill - especially senior ones. Think: Senior SWEs, Heads of Engineering or Product, VPs... But there can be many reasons why hiring feels difficult. Which of these have you struggled with the most when trying to make a hire?

We talk a lot about the founders we work with, but we also work closely with internal recruiting teams when they find they need extra hands. Supporting internal recruiters to help them weed through their pipelines and find the strongest matches possible is one of our top skillsets. Thanks for your review! 🤝