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every year anyone Sarah Nahm 17Kat Manalac 7Jennifer Kim 5Craig Cannon 5Claire McDonnell 3
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Startup Hiring Advice from Lever CEO Sarah Nahm with Holly Liu · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:24 Craig Cannon Obviously you jumped around at Google, but it's not obvious as to how a speechwriter goes on to found lever. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:28 Sarah Nahm And, um, it's some of the most fun and terrifying, you know, chapters you've ever had at Lever, so.
- ▶ 24:26 Sarah Nahm But I think fundamentally, um, to me, like, you know, at Lever, our first stage of our hiring process, it's not
- ▶ 30:02 Sarah Nahm Um, so, you know, Lever actually didn't really embark on remote work until we were pretty, uh, late as a company, and that was for people that had already worked in our company for a while, and then, like, for maybe personal reasons or…
- ▶ 34:47 Craig Cannon So say, you know, I'm looking at to apply for a job at Lever, and it's like, you're gonna, you know, increase x, y, and z, and I'm like,
- ▶ 37:24 Sarah Nahm I mean, so there's a few levels, like for one, we as a recruiting software company, um, we're trying to actually scale out how all of our customers, how the entire industry can make hiring more inclusive. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:41 Sarah Nahm Well, I can definitely tell you how the conversation got sparked, uh, meaningfully at Lever, and it was, um, who does the dishes? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:18 Sarah Nahm Um, you know, I wouldn't even say levers solve this problem, but I'll just enumerate some of the things that we do to help. 6 times in the scene
Claire McDonnell and Jennifer Kim on Building an Inclusive Company Culture · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:47 Kat Manalac And, um, next we have Jennifer Kim, um, and so, uh, Jennifer was one of the very first employees at Lever, a company that builds recruiting software, um, and she built the D&I program at Lever, and Lever is about a hundred employees. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:58 Jennifer Kim For us, related to that at Lever, we've seen huge benefits in terms of both recruiting and retention. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:49 Jennifer Kim So for example, people used to come in to Lever as new hires saying, oh, you know, I've heard such great things about the product.
- ▶ 25:37 Claire McDonnell We do something really similar and actually a really helpful tool for us in making our interview panels even more effective and really pulling out feedback from people has been Lever. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:34 Jennifer Kim So when you join Lever, you take this, you know, short test, and it tells you what color energy from this, you know, rainbow circle, ah, you're leading with, and kind of what you are drawn to, and what your strengths are.
- ▶ 43:31 Kat Manalac And that's something I think that was beautiful about what, you know, Lever did and what you did there, is that, you know, you really owned that piece as, as Lever grew. 3 times in the scene