What will 2024 bring for hiring and startups?

Greetings from Recruiting from Scratch, and welcome to this week’s edition of the RFS Report!

What’s the state of hiring in 2024? ??

There’s been a lot of headlines already this year about tech layoffs. Wayfair, Brex, Google, and even the historically-strong Microsoft have laid off employees or announced they will be (if you’ve been impacted by a recent layoff or know someone who was, please check out our open roles ).

But...we’ve also seen our clients extend offers to candidates this year, and others are posting new roles and quickly moving candidates through interview processes.

Our advice to candidates: if you’re job searching, consider smaller to mid-size companies. Early stage, high growth companies that don’t have to show short term profitability are a great place to find roles right now.

Our advice to employers: there are some amazing candidates on the market right now that we didn’t see last year. They’re energized, ready to try something new, and make an impact after a few tumultuous years.

Startup hiring tips through each stage of the process ??

We talk about hiring and interview tips often but recently shared some content on startup hiring tips especially for 2024.

Some of the basics?

• Spend time outlining your values and the work styles that work best for your team. When you know what you’re looking for, it’s a lot easier to find the best hires for you and eliminate others.
• Over-communicate when possible and go in with a structure in mind! Top candidates appreciate knowing when they can expect decisions and next steps.
• Put together some onboarding processes. It doesn’t have to be perfect and it can be fluid, but set your employees up for success from day 1 by letting them know what’s expected.

Read the full post here .

The most desirable seniorities right now are...

A couple days ago we asked our followers which levels of seniority they’re hiring for. Answers were fairly split across categories, with close to a third of respondents looking for mid-level talent, quickly followed by a desire to hire junior and senior talent.

We’re predicting that as companies restructure more and more in 2024, we’ll see more senior & executive candidates brought in to lead teams. And as new companies start to launch their product, they’ll need senior teams to come in (we’re hiring for a lot of founding engineers right now).

Roles we’re hiring for ??

We’re hiring for a number of roles at exciting companies (including in AI!). Send us your application today.

?? Senior Software Engineer, AI: https://recruiterflow.com/recruitingfromscratch/jobs/2078

?? Senior Backend Engineer, Seed Stage Fintech: https://recruiterflow.com/recruitingfromscratch/jobs/1936

?? Senior Fullstack Engineer, Frontend: https://recruiterflow.com/recruitingfromscratch/jobs/2063

?? Founding Engineer (remote!): https://recruiterflow.com/recruitingfromscratch/jobs/2093

?? Lead Founding Engineer, AI startup: https://recruiterflow.com/recruitingfromscratch/jobs/2098

?? Founding Fullstack Engineer, AI startup: https://recruiterflow.com/recruitingfromscratch/jobs/2075

?? Senior Backend Engineer, Insurance: https://recruiterflow.com/recruitingfromscratch/jobs/1516

?? Founding Fullstack Engineer, B2B Startup: https://recruiterflow.com/recruitingfromscratch/jobs/2062