Archive for the ‘Hiring’ Category

Hiring For Startups - A few tips to note

Here’s a good read. We found this article very relevant and interesting for our readers, and thought might as well publish it here. It’s re-published from Nandini’s blog (http://nandini.madhouse.in).
@Nandini: thanks for allowing us to re-publish your article here.
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There was a recent discussion on MVP gang about a particular “wrong-hire” which prompted me to write [...]

We’re Expanding! Looking for Partners to Join Our Franchise Network

We’re growing, and as a natural step forward we’re expanding our reach by establishing presence in more cities. Of course, being a startup we’d encourage a more entrepreneurial approach of expansion - franchising!
With this objective in mind, we’re looking for entrepreneurial people who’d like to join us in this endeavour. I have provided [...]

Is this the real Rolex?

Somehow, while surfing the net today, I ended up doing a Google search for fake rolex watches. Its weird how easy access to information can get you carried away and you end up searching for the weirdest things possible. Anyways, I just clicked on search and ended up with 2.4 million links!! Can you believe that, [...]

Jobs are all we need

How many job sites are there on the internet? Well, to come to a rough estimate, I got it from CheezHead that there are around 40,000 jobsites only in the United States of America. Then there are offline agencies and consultancies.
From this figure I was really interested in the number of job sites in India, [...]

5 tips for surviving a startup interview

Most start-up companies that I know are not looking for “typical” employees, because they have much more at stake than established companies. While most established companies focus on expansion, most start-up companies are struggling just to survive. It is all about sustenance and growth. They are always on a look out for highly-skilled self-starters, who [...]

We rest our case…

“Dude! How come you are joining a start-up?” they would ask. Just three months into SutraHR, a people consulting firm, and the 22-year-old knows he is headed in the right direction.
This 22 year old is Kartik and he was featured in an article on GoErgo. Read more about his experiences and the ideologies we all [...]

Follow me and I shall take you on the path of righteousness

No this is not because of a sudden religious streak in me nor am I preaching anything, this is what every entrepreneur tells its co-workers. Whenever I look at an entrepreneur I am reminded of a passage from the bible made popular by Pulp Fiction - here’s what Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) says, adding bits [...]