Executive search firm co-founder, Michelle Milbourn of Kommol, on: Best Practices in Hiring: What do the Most Successful Companies do in Hiring vs the Rest?

My guest today is Michelle Milbourn. With over 20 years of executive search and recruitment experience, Michelle has successfully placed candidates in over 140 VC and private-equity-backed European headquartered companies. She shares her experience of what top companies get right in hiring and what they get wrong.
Show notes:

  • [2:35] - How has tech hiring been affected by covid and where are you seeing hiring picking up again?
  • [5:50] - What is a typical hiring process like? How do you find the right hire for a role?
  • [9:28] - When should founders be thinking of making the key commercial team hires?
  • [11:12] - What is the toughest role to fill today?
  • [13:23] - How do founders/CEO think of candidates with unconventional backgrounds and what is your view on it?
  • [15:09] - How do you motivate a candidate to join a startup?
  • [17:32] - How important is diversity and inclusion for startups?  What are you hearing differently today?
  • [20:04] - What are the differences in the hiring traits between the companies that are most successful and those that are less successful?
  • [25:46] - Why do I need a recruiting agency? Why can’t I just use Linkedin?  When do I need a recruiting agency?
  • [29:38] - What should founders and CEOs know about finding the right recruiting firm?
  • [31:57] - How are recruiting agencies compensated?

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