Why does it take some companies 3 months to hire for a role and others 3 weeks? A lot of it comes down to process. To speed up your hiring, you need to make sure that you're running a tight interview process. However, very few companies manage to do this.…
1.5 months ago, I left my management consulting job at BCG and joined Dover, a seed-stage startup in the recruiting-tech space.During my transition from consulting to startups, I realized there’s not much information to help non-technical folks interested in early-stage startups.In this blog, I aim to…
For founders, there’s an obvious appeal to inbound recruiting. Instead of devoting time and resources to candidate outreach, you can focus on other tasks and let the applicants come to you. In short, inbound recruiting does all the work for founders. At least that’s the theory. There’s…
As an early-stage founder, you’ll make dozens of decisions every day that will impact your company’s future. But few of those decisions will matter as much as who you hire—which can make those decisions the most anxiety-inducing ones you have to make. Which should you prioritize in…
When people think of the tens of millions of jobs lost during the coronavirus crisis, they often picture the many hairdressers, servers, bartenders and retail salespeople unable to work in a pandemic. And while the hospitality and service industries have been hit the hardest by Covid-19, the tech sector hasn’…
I wrote a blog post last month about my job search as an ex-Founder. In the blog, I talk about how I used my network to help me figure out what I wanted to do next with my career. I was originally unclear on the kind of role I wanted,…
At Dover, we're helping companies find and engage the best people for their teamAfter working with 50+ of the fastest growing startups – we saw that our customers wanted help with creatives ideas for job descriptions, too.In this article, we'll talk about why JDs are important & introduce our fun…
As an outbound recruiting company, we at Dover are often asked to focus a search on diversity. Sometimes this is because a mostly-male startup is looking for its first female engineering hire, or that a leadership team has looked around and realized that there aren't enough (or any!) underrepresented minorities…