Recruitment

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Ruth, Taryn and Philippa from Mayden, a health tech company that’s Made Without Managers

...ent and seek those opportunities out and so on. How do you support people when they join Mayden, for example? I'm guessing you've probably honed your recruitment process also to find people, but once they join, do people find that challenging? And if so, how do you support them in adapting to this way of worki...more
...llenging? And if so, how do you support them in adapting to this way of working? Taryn Burden: Yeah, we've definitely done a lot around, first of all recruitment. So we worked with a business psychologist in the early days, probably around 2017 I imagine. I wasn't massively involved in that, that's why I'm bei...more
...esitant, but I am massively involved in our induction process. So I guess, Ruth, did you want to? Ruth Waterfield: Yeah, I can say a little bit about recruitment, because I'm involved in developer recruitment. And yeah, these questions that came out of that conversation with a psychologist really help us to fi...more
...uction process. So I guess, Ruth, did you want to? Ruth Waterfield: Yeah, I can say a little bit about recruitment, because I'm involved in developer recruitment. And yeah, these questions that came out of that conversation with a psychologist really help us to figure out what are the questions that we need to...more
...onment where we don't have line management, and what that might be like, and try and make sure our website does that as well as much as possible. Our recruitment team are really great at setting that scene. And obviously, the actual interview process is there. But then we do go on a real journey with staff whe...more

Jorge Silva on horizontal structures and participatory culture at 10Pines

...amples of companies, like outdated ways of thinking about organisations is like this zero-sum game. That there are winners and losers...I think about recruitment situations and competing...In fact, someone once described it as two people sitting across the table lying to each other in order to get a job. Jorg...more
...Lisa Gill: Yeah, and I guess a key part of those qualities or characteristics is recruitment. And I know that you're quite proud of the way that you do recruitment - it's quite a thorough process. Maybe you could share with listeners how you ...more
...sa Gill: Yeah, and I guess a key part of those qualities or characteristics is recruitment. And I know that you're quite proud of the way that you do recruitment - it's quite a thorough process. Maybe you could share with listeners how you hire people? Jorge Silva: Well, actually our recruiting process was ins...more
...ll, actually our recruiting process was inspired by Semco - they were one of our inspirations in the beginning of design. So we have a really intense recruitment process - it has three stages. The first on is: we try to get candidates from people that we already know. So we have the first filter, then we have ...more
...Lisa Gill: Yeah, definitely. What have been some of the challenges? Like have you found people, even though you have a thorough recruitment process, have you found that some people join and find it challenging to adapt to this way of working – you know, high accountability, high responsib...more

Beetroot’s founders on purpose, self-management, and shocking people with trust

... - that can be (doesn't need to be, but it can be) a bit of a red flag warning. Andreas Flodström: And one of the interesting things when it comes to recruitment, is it is much more challenging for us in this context to find people with senior hard skills, and who is comfortable and willing to enable to switch...more