Hiring mistakes start-ups should avoid !!!

All organisations make mistakes during recruitment. But such mistakes can prove costly in new ventures that run on small teams. What is to be done then? Founders of two startups in the lifestyle and health segment list the dos and don’ts of hiring.

Punit Desai, cofounder and CEO, Welcome Cure, a homeopathy treatment portal

1. Hiring too quickly: Startups, especially ones that are well-funded or newly-funded, value money less since it has come to them easily. Hiring the right team is as important as renting a right house. It’s the resource with which one lives, learns, excels and builds an ecosystem.

2. Not spending enough time with a prospect: It is essential to understand the social background of the candidate. One must also be well aware about what the short-term and long-term goals of the candidate. It helps analyse whether the candidate can get closer to the organisational goals.

3. Acceptability: It's great to have people for decades with the organisation. Loyalty is loveable to all. However, sometimes in a short span of time of a year or two, an employee may start feeling that the organisation is nothing without them. They feel the system will collapse or get massively disturbed in their absence. This is when unreasonable demands and insincere behaviour starts taking shape. Startups should not bow down to such situations. Rather than fearing the loss of someone once valuable and good, the organisation must gracefully show them the door and be positive of expecting a better resource walking in.

Amit Vora, founder and CEO, iCrushiFlush, a dating app

1. Hire mobile geeks and not PC geeks: We need people who change their phones every few months and apps weekly, if not daily. One can’t be shy to work for a dating app.

2. Don’t hire expert, pick all-rounder: Lifestyle is one space which needs loads of features, e-commerce and chat. Only all-rounders would be better placed to think and work on the lines of all aspects. 

3. Creative and logical: The person hired should be moderately creative and logical. Left brain and right brain should dominate equally. Extreme creativity takes a few years to transform imagination into reality while extremely logical person designs solutions which only Einstein can decipher.

Source : techgignews.com