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Here's a helpful toolkit for companies considering launching a second chance hiring initiative.

💼 Considering project-based work? Hiring microworkers for specific tasks can be a game-changer! 💰 It's a cost-effective solution that offers flexibility and efficiency. 🚀 #Microwork #ProjectBased #CostEffective #FlexibleHiring #Efficiency #ShortTermWork #GigEconomy #WorkforceSolutions

Ever wondered how companies venture into global hiring? 🌍 We can offer you a list of reasons, but it's always better when you hear straight from our customers. If you’re curious to hear the whole story of how Heyflow expanded their global remote team with WorkMotion, click here: https://lnkd.in/e9DN9dB5 #GlobalHiring #RemoteTeams #FutureofWork #CustomerExperience

"The two biggest competitors you'll face are Inertia and Excel." Crazy how true this is with sooooooooo many value props. Hiring/application tracking. Partnerships. Reporting. Data analysis. Content ops. Project management. The list goes on. Rarely in these situations am I using one of your expensive competitors. I'm probably using an internal process and a crazy complicated sheet file that has snowballed over the months/years. This is one of the main reasons why competing on price is underrated. If my current workflow is free, my upgrade isn't going to be to $xx,xxx/$xxx,xxx a year.

"The riches are in the niches." Here's what this means in CRE: → You need relationships → You need knowledge → You need deal flow → You need capital Without focus, these are bottlenecks → too many conversations → too many calculations → too many options All of which will waste your energy All of which will waste your time All of which kill any chance of progress But, here's where niches lead to wins: Starting as a passive investor; → choose one asset class → choose one to two markets → choose one to two operators Starting as an active investor; → Choose one asset class → Choose one to two markets → Choose one to two partners Focus reaps quick decisions Quick decisions reap momentum Momentum reaps success Don't waste your time overthinking Niche down. P.S. We are hiring! Check out the comments ⬇️

Every week, I hear the same question: "Is Forum Ventures hiring?" Great news: We are! And it's not just one, but two standout positions we're filling. 1️⃣ Venture Analyst: Forum is one of the most active early-stage funds globally, looking to make over 100 investments this year. You’ll be boots on the ground (and on LinkedIn) forming relationships with hundreds of founders, angels, and VCs to drive deal flow for Forum. 2️⃣ Platform Operations Manager: We really care about founder experience. With writing over 100 checks this year we need an operations master to build systems, structures, and no-code tools that allow Forum to deliver a world-class founder experience. 👉 Thinking of applying? If you’re looking to break into VC or make the jump to an up-and-coming fund - DMs are open for questions, or apply through the link in the first comments 👇

Why do I care about diverse engineering teams so much? It's a great question that one of my clients posed to me recently. I was meeting with them and talking about how I could help them create more diverse teams (in thought, opinion, appearance, gender, etc). One of them stopped me and asked: "But why?" I started to respond with all the benefits that diverse teams have been shown to have, like improved retention, better problem-solving, better access to talent pools, and so on. He stopped me. "No, I mean—why is this so important to you?" I hesitated for a moment. I have some deep, personal reasons why this matters to me, and I wasn't sure what to share in a client meeting. Ultimately, I decided to open up and be honest. I'd struggled with mental illness, and that led me to fail high school. I was kicked out of college due to my illness, too. I came from a family that relied on welfare, and we didn't have access to mental health care. I was in a deep hole. I'd found that I had an interest and aptitude for software engineering, but with a background like mine, very few people were willing to take a chance on hiring me. I managed to start my own consulting business and got a few clients to take a chance on me, and that kick-started what became a pretty great career. I wanted to give back a bit and help other companies take a chance on candidates who didn't exactly fit the mold of a software engineer. I did that as a hiring manager and found there were enormous benefits to it. Seeing that success in creating diverse teams, I wanted to help other companies replicate that success. So, that's why it matters to me. There may be some companies out there who want to dismantle their DE&I teams because they don't see the immediate financial returns from it, but it's always going to matter to me.

As a founder of a growth-stage technology company, I find it very strange when other entrepreneurs have the time and/or energy to write these viral-bait generic advice lists. I am not a fan of them for three reasons: 1. These lists are typically self-congratulatory and intended to drive more attention to the founders' fast growing companies like Ghost. 2. Founders tend to use unnecessarily complex vocabulary and run-on sentences to seemingly prove their sophistication in an imprudent fashion, often sounding garrulous and ignominious. 3. There is rarely a strong call-to-action with incentive for the reader beyond the opportunity to subscribe to more of this content. If you agree with this post then follow for more at the link in my profile. We are hiring: www.ghst.io/careers

These posts are just insane. As a candidate, how do you apply? - Just supposed to what, like, reshare? How do they pick the most qualified candidate based on a hand raise? - No ATS to vett people - No order to the madness - FIFO is out the window - Based on what, pure luck that the OP finds your tagline interesting or maybe that you comment in the time window they are looking at? This is a small example, less than 100 comments. Most just tags and cfbr. But, something where the OP gets 1k or 10k comments. Just 🤯

I make the bold claim that CEOs/Founders should stop wasting time in managing teams of humans and instead go all into software. Spend time: 1) finding the best tech stacks 2) coding/programming systems instead of hiring new employees that will go 3) making sure your full ecosystem communicates together opportunity cost is real and tech is accelerating hyper-fast. Humans cost 10X more than software and software tends to make a 2X-10X better job in most fields. It doesn't break/take paid vacation. This is the present and the future.