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Recruiting
From the founder and CEO of one of Silicon Valley’s hottest startups comes a behind-the-scenes guide to recruiting and closing the best talent in the world.
Your company’s future rests on the people who make it up—but how does a small, early-stage company lure industry veterans away from comfortable jobs? Conversely, if your company is inundated with applicants, how do you separate the good from the truly great? And once you’ve found your dream candidate, how do you make sure they say yes to you, every time?
In this essential primer, Bolt founder and CEO Ryan Breslow offers insights drawn from his experience growing Bolt from an idea to a multi-billion dollar company. Along the way, he interviewed thousands of possible candidates and developed a rigorous process for finding, screening, and closing the very best.
This book includes email templates, interview questions, and even how to run a thorough reference check. Breslow coaches leaders on everything from attracting talent to communicating a company's vision to drafting emails that will help you close the deal. This is a step-by-step breakdown of how to bring the best talent in the world to work for you, and it’s an indispensable guide to anyone who wants to take their team and company to the next level.
Your company’s future rests on the people who make it up—but how does a small, early-stage company lure industry veterans away from comfortable jobs? Conversely, if your company is inundated with applicants, how do you separate the good from the truly great? And once you’ve found your dream candidate, how do you make sure they say yes to you, every time?
In this essential primer, Bolt founder and CEO Ryan Breslow offers insights drawn from his experience growing Bolt from an idea to a multi-billion dollar company. Along the way, he interviewed thousands of possible candidates and developed a rigorous process for finding, screening, and closing the very best.
This book includes email templates, interview questions, and even how to run a thorough reference check. Breslow coaches leaders on everything from attracting talent to communicating a company's vision to drafting emails that will help you close the deal. This is a step-by-step breakdown of how to bring the best talent in the world to work for you, and it’s an indispensable guide to anyone who wants to take their team and company to the next level.
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92 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 14, 2021
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October 10, 2022
This is how these books should look like. A speedrun case study with only ideas, execution, and examples from actual company.
This really feels like the author wanted to help others with their experience and knowledge not to stroke their ego by writing a book.
This really feels like the author wanted to help others with their experience and knowledge not to stroke their ego by writing a book.
September 6, 2022
A brief read with playbooks and templates that I found useful in my company.
June 8, 2023
Wonderfully useful book. Read this in addition to the A Method for Hiring (that was more than a year ago now). This book adds ideas around how to do cold outreach successfully, reinforces the ideas that everyone is a recruiter initially in a company, and that you should hire like your life depends on it, as people are the heartbeat of the company.
Some of my updates include being much more communicative with outside recruiters, as well as the candidates across the process of hiring. It's important to hire for diversity from the start of the company, rather than when it becomes an issue. One cool idea is how to do reference checks really well and meaningfully. The book also has some nice interview questions and ideas for score cards for interviews.
Some of my updates include being much more communicative with outside recruiters, as well as the candidates across the process of hiring. It's important to hire for diversity from the start of the company, rather than when it becomes an issue. One cool idea is how to do reference checks really well and meaningfully. The book also has some nice interview questions and ideas for score cards for interviews.
January 16, 2022
Read this book if you are hiring. There are awesome and clear templates, great checklists, and is an awesome blueprint to not just fill a role, but also try set you up for long term growth as an organization.
January 20, 2024
Quick and amazing read. Theory and concepts you have seen or heard somewhere else before. This book summarizes it in a non bullshitting way. Hands-on experiences and snippets of wisdom make this a great read not only for people/teams recruiting, but also people applying for jobs.
August 30, 2024
Ignoring all the crazy stuff that happened with Bolt, this is a good quick primer for tech recruiting. Always helpful to come back to this and do a quick skim.
July 22, 2022
Recruiting by Ryan Breslow is short and sweet but it packs a lot of useful advice in that time. Breslow's perspective comes from recruiting for an American early stage start up and covers finding talent, the interview process and how to make a great offer. Breslow also covers a lot of ground on how to create great culture and how to evaluate for it during the interview process too.
As an In-House Recruiter for a start up, I found this book super useful and implemented some of the ideas in our company. It's a bit too early to say if they made a difference yet but if you're in a similar situation to me I would strongly recommend this book!
As an In-House Recruiter for a start up, I found this book super useful and implemented some of the ideas in our company. It's a bit too early to say if they made a difference yet but if you're in a similar situation to me I would strongly recommend this book!
August 28, 2022
I would give this book a million stars if I could. I've probably read a dozen books on recruiting at this point. I've learned more from this 90-page book than those thousands of pages of fluff.
If you want insanely actionable insights on how to be in the top 1% of recruiting. Read this.
If you want insanely actionable insights on how to be in the top 1% of recruiting. Read this.
May 21, 2024
Great and easy read about recruitment. Some really valuable lesson, especially on the importance of creating the experience for candidates.
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