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Nahm: Founders hold startups back unless hiring is a core strategy
“Hiring is, like, hiring is the strategy when you're a startup. Like, there's a period at which, like, you know, like, you can be the best founder on the planet, and you will be holding your own company back if you haven't figured out how to truly prioritize hi…”
Nahm: Team and macro trends matter more than personal ability
“Probably the biggest thing to truly getting started was, you know, again, people. Believing in the people that you're working with. Believing in the people around you. And then secondly, you know, I think believing in a change that's happening in the world. An…”
Nahm: The technical vs non-technical divide harms B2B software companies
“We needed our quote, non-technical people to embrace and adopt like designing systems that were as sort of like scalable, sophisticated, scalable, and have that sort of engineering mindset about their work. And then we also needed our technical people to under…”
Nahm: Companies must build inclusive culture before diversity recruiting
“Before you're about to do a big investment into diversity in your recruiting, and making kind of your hiring more diverse, I actually think it's really critical to start by making sure your culture is inclusive. Because what's the point of, like, hiring all th…”
Nahm: A product's true identity is defined by customer word-of-mouth
“Like you can think that you're delivering this game changing such and such platform, something, something, but like what your customers say about you or what they say to their friends when they're talking about your software, I mean, that's ultimately who you …”
Nahm: Impact descriptions attract top-tier talent and diversify applicant pools
“And I would attribute, you know, this impact descriptions, As opposed to job descriptions as not just being one, like a great way to get the most talented people, like the top 10 percentile of the talent market interested in your opportunities. It's also been …”
Nahm: Lever team agreed to make her CEO before Series A closed
“Literally kind of on the eve of our series A, we had signed a term sheet, but we hadn't closed the round. Kind of we as a team collectively agreed I should be CEO.”
Nahm: Lever uses a career trajectory interview walking candidates from college forward
“We do a step in our process that we call career trajectory, and it's basically
A behavioral interviewing interview where you go in and you just kind of start at, you know, college and then go step by step by step through people's career and allow them to tell …”
Nahm: Pre-nurtured candidates get hired 35% faster than cold applicants
“They actually get hired, like we have the data to prove this, like, 35% faster, Than people who are meeting you for the first time.”
Nahm: Lever built a Slack bot to enforce equitable dish duty
“We built a Slack bot that assigned a rotational dish duty, and it would just tell you in the morning, today's your dish duty day, and then we just, like, made it completely equitable.”
Nahm: 81% of Lever's engineering team was proactively sourced
“81% of his team was proactively sourced.”
Nahm: Lever's first interview stage is explicitly named Motivation Fit
“At Lever, our first stage of our hiring process, it's not
Phone screen.
It's not something like that's just screening.
I can't, it's motivation fit.
Like literally that's what the name of the stage is.”
Kim: Listening to employees affected by systemic bias benefits the entire company
“Really understanding D&I is all about paying attention to those people who are more perceptive and more affected than the average person by some of the systematic inequalities and obstacles. So if anything, they're just trying to give you information and bette…”
Nahm: Lever discarded its first product after customer feedback proved it incremental
“So I would actually say that first we built an entire thing and Actually had to kind of come to terms with you know, what our customer feedback kind of was, and we had built just something incremental, and we had built something that was just like a better ver…”