020. Startup Hiring Lessons (@jenistyping's Version) (From the Twitter Vault)
[TL;DR - Below is a curated selection of my favorite past tweets about startup hiring, captured for posterity. I've also included some personal context, but you can also just skip to the hiring lessons.]
Like most Twitter users, for many years I was only a lurker/occasional poster. But around 2018, I decided wade into content creation and the limited-character format seemed like a good creative constraint. (I was also recovering from severe burnout, so 280 characters seemed far less intimidating for my tired brain than anything else.)
For the next few years, I posted nearly every day, with the goal of teaching as many people as possible about startup hiring. Given how important recruiting is, it's flabbergasting how it still (STILL!) remains so ineffective, and I think people are hungry for real insights.
It took some time, of course, but momentum started to build, and I started to build a brand as THE startup recruiting expert. It's hard to summarize the opportunities/connections/fun that came about due to my Twitter experience, and I've collected hundreds of feedback from readers about how much they appreciate my content and the direct impact on their startups. (Apparently I am a fixture in many teams' slack channels!)
Given how much hours and community I'd invested into the platform, what's happened to it since 2022 is so unfortunate, and it's legit hard for me to talk about it. The direction that its new unstable leader is taking it... is not a good one for people who cared about quality and connection over memes and gaming engagement metrics.
Last year, I started divesting from Twitter and started this newsletter. I'd love to keep going, as I could easily expand each tweet below into a full post with more stories, examples, in-depth analysis.
Honestly, there are just too many banger tweets to leave behind. So... I'm capturing some of my favorites below – consider this post a lifeboat from the sinking ship that is Twitter. There are a lot here, but I already had to cut so many... imma need more lifeboats! ??
Thanks to these folks for recent feedback on this newsletter / sharing to help its growth! Jenn Hirsch, Christiaan Vorkink, Jen Dewar, Kieran Snyder, Alexandra Franklin, Matt Birnbaum, Jon Williams, Lexa Svensson, and more!
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Jennifer Kim is the CEO/Founder of Workflow, an education and consulting company that trains the next generation of startup leaders on all things Recruiting, People Ops, and DEI. Through its flagship program, the HireEd Accelerator, Jen and her team have taught hundreds of startup leaders to make hiring a competitive advantage. Previously, Jen was Head of People at Lever and advised dozens of top startups. She is known for her hot takes on tech industry and culture as @jenistyping.
I help leaders & their orgs thrive through growth and change by aligning strategy, talent & equity | Fractional Chief People Officer | Strategic Advisor | Leadership Coach | Learning & Development Nerd
9 个月All of this- particularly the tweets on the need for employers to position themselves as great places to work and not just boame the candidate pool (or the recruiter!) . As someone who led a startup school and then a recruitment team in education as the pool of employees shifted, this deeply resonated.