Author: Nicole Miller

[ad_1] We’ve achieved quite a lot of hiring through the years and one of many questions we’ve requested ourselves has been: is is healthier to have new Buffer teammates who shall be on the identical workforce begin on the identical time or to stagger their begin dates? We’re a comparatively small workforce and since we’ve been actively hiring for a number of roles during the last 12 months and a half we’ve puzzled what’s greatest for each teammates and hiring managers. Lately, a brand new hiring supervisor requested a number of different managers their expertise with having teammates begin on…

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[ad_1] We’ve introduced in almost 30 new teammates within the final yr, and for every of these hires, we’ve finished 15 to 25 values screens. So during the last yr, I’ve finished at the least 400 values screening calls and I all the time flip the decision over to the candidates to ask no matter questions they’ve for me. I’ve been requested some actually insightful questions over the previous yr, and I’ve seen some developments emerge. Listed here are the highest ten questions I get requested and my responses. At a look:What has stored you at Buffer for thus lengthy?How…

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[ad_1] Hiring typically comes with ebbs and flows. Throughout one six-month stretch in 2021, a very busy season, I spent greater than 120 working hours in six months asking greater than 350 people the identical seven questions for our Buffer values display. On the finish of every dialog, I’d flip the dialog over to them, and lots of of them requested the identical few questions, which I’ll cowl in one other put up. In that point and with the depth of the sheer quantity of calls, I’ve gained a variety of readability: about hiring, about what candidates are searching for…

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