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Insights For Employers & HR Professionals Perspectives Start-Up HR

When should a start-up hire their first HR resource?

When you start a business – you (the promoter / founder) are everything for the business. You are expected to don multiple hats – CEO, CTO, CFO, Receptionist, Runner, Cleaner etc. As you move forward, the concerned responsibilities can be shared across co-founders, founding team members till you are ready to hire dedicated resources for […]

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Insights For Employers & HR Professionals Start-Up HR

Developing HR Policies for a startup.

Once your startup plans to or has added a few employees, it may be a good time to start thinking about getting the HR policies & process in place. To start with, it helps with your hiring efforts. It helps you and your recruiter address the queries and concerns of prospective employees and job applicants. […]

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Insights For Employers & HR Professionals Start-Up HR

HR Priorities for startups. Stage – 1.

Stage 1 – When it’s only the founders. We may normally think that HR comes in only when a business has employees and is somewhat mature.  To ensure that a business has a good foundation, it helps  startup founders to think HR, even at an inception stage. Of course, you don’t need to hire an […]

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Compensation and Rewards Start-Up HR

Do startups and small companies need a formal compensation benchmarking exercise?

Last year, the CEO of a small IT company asked my firm to undertake a compensation benchmarking exercise to identify compensation of similar manpower in comparable businesses. They wanted benchmarks for the software developers, design guys, and other operations team members in the business. They wanted adequate data to be able to make informed decision […]

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Hiring Right Talent Perspectives Start-Up HR

Some Questions: Why is it difficult for small businesses and start-ups to hire ?

  Let’s say, you are working for a start up or you are the promoter for a start up. Over  a period of time, you realise that it’s difficult to hire quality talent – specially for a new company, small company or start-up. You have tried multiple ways to get good people – You sign […]