Hiring right for a startup is extremely essential. Exotel has managed to work with some excellent folks over the last 2.5 years and this ebook has all of best practices that have worked extremely well for us. Download the entire ebook from here http://exotel.in/hiring-for-startups-3-step-process/

3. HIRING FOR START-UPS
The 3-step process to getting the right people to
work with your company
Written by
Vijay Sharma
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4. Exotel is a small sized startup but the 30-40 people
who have helped build this company, have all been
honest, happy, hard-working & humble people. We
are really proud and honoured to be working with
all of these folks.
I thought about a good way to structure this e-book,
which literally is a collection of all the insights we
have picked up during our hiring over the last 2.5
years at Exotel and this is what I came up with.
Vijay Sharma
@vijaysw

5. INDEXINDEX
Hiring Strategy
Structure
Techniques
Culture of your company
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6. Hiring Strategy | Techniques - A Small Snippet
TECHNIQUESTECHNIQUES
We’ll break this up into Must Do’s & Vertical focussed strategies:
Must Do’s
1. Job Description – Personify it
What do you mean by Personifying a profile? Simple – when we wanted to
hire an Inbound/Content Marketing specialist for Exotel, Nandini Vishwanath,
Head, Community & Customer Support at Urban Ladder helped us frame
the job description and in a lovely turn of events, also helped us finally hire
someone for that role.
Frame a good JD. And that’s what
a potential applicant reads, right?
That’s on the basis of which they
decide if this is for them or not. If
a good talent leaves because you
haven’t spent time on your JD, it is
your loss.

7. Hiring Strategy | Techniques - A Small Snippet
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2. The “Abhishek Goyal” exercise
He let us in on his hiring secret which
helped us alter the way we thought about
hiring
We met the man who scaled Urbantouch crazily in 2 years and had the best
talent working with him, so much so, he said, he could have been out for 4
months and not affected the growth of the company. It was all down to the
team he had built.
It’s a great read so far, hearing it from the lions mouth after all.
- Gopi Aravind | CEO, Unwired labs
Click here to download the complete ebook to read about the best practices
that helped us build Exotel over 2.5 years.
Here’s what some of the folks who’ve read this ebook have said
This document is a fantastic representation of various thoughts. I read it
back-2-back twice and I have a lot of clarity about ZapStitch hiring. I am
looking forward for a fantastic meeting in the next 2 days with our team on
this.
- Satya Padmanabham | Co-Founder, ZapStitch

8. Reach out to us for anything :)
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