Dover Team

Here’s a common scenario for our customers: they find an amazing candidate who isn't US-based. The candidate asks if they'll sponsor their visa application. Now, they're left to scour through verbose, unhelpful resources about visa sponsorship for employers, mostly written to large and established enterprise companies. They aren't sure

If you’re a founder or work in talent acquisition for startups, you know that despite the COVID-19 pandemic and the Great Resignation, the tech industry bounced back quickly. The unemployment rate for tech jobs is 1.3%, its lowest level since June 2019 and about one-third of the national

By: John Holliman I was one of the first 20 employees at my previous startup, Expanse (acquired by Palo Alto Networks last year). It was a phenomenal learning experience, but after more than 3 years at the company, I found myself itching for a role as an early member of

When it comes to outbound recruiting, the difficulty lies in devoting sufficient time and energy into finding, pitching and engaging candidates – Dover cuts down on the time it takes to source, schedule, and craft outreach through automation so that our customers can hire better candidates, faster. We've also done the

By: Sharon Yeh I switched jobs in the middle of the pandemic — and from the stable world of management consulting to a seed startup, no less. 47 million Americans lost their jobs in 2020, and new college grads have struggled to find work. But in industries like tech, hiring is

At Dover, we're on a mission to enable every company in the world to create the best recruiting experience possible. Today, we're thrilled to share that Dover has raised a $20m Series A round led by Tiger Global, with participation from previous investors Founders Fund, Abstract Ventures, and YC. George,

I joined Dover three months ago as the sixth person on the EPD team, coming from a small New York-based creative agency where I had been the first engineering hire. During my interview process, I sensed that Dover’s values aligned with mine. Upon joining, my intuitions were confirmed as

Pitching talented candidates is tough — few people get it right. At Dover, we've helped more than 150 companies reach out to candidates in highly personalized and thoughtful ways. Your first point of outreach, after all, is when the candidate experience begins, and we believe that perfecting it is key to

You did it — after many, many phone screens and interviews, you extended an offer to “the one” and they’re starting soon. Good job! Now, on to your next challenge: setting up the new hire for success while working remotely. Not to worry — our team at Dover has grown from

credit: dilbert.comMy company Dover is building a recruiting orchestration platform to help companies find and hire the best talent. Over the past two years, I’ve helped 100+ founders and hiring managers understand how to run a data-driven recruiting process and get the results they want. This post is

Titles won't make or break your offer, but why not pull every lever you can, to get someone amazing on your team? As long as these titles are accurate to the job someone is doing, they are easy and inexpensive ways to attract talent. DO:Add "Founding" to the titles

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.

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 a recruiting solution, 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 in

The team at Dover has been very excited to see the increase in diversity & inclusion initiatives this year, especially when it comes to hiring. We've built out many features in our products that aim to increase diversity in our client's recruiting pipelines, and we're pleased to offer some of

In the age of COVID, everyone needs to get good at hiring remotely — fast. Dover sat down via video with Kevin Pursel, the former Head of Recruiting at GitLab (the famously fully remote open-source company), and current Head of Recruiting at States Title, to discuss remote hiring best practices and