How should startups recruit people?

1. Don't waste time looking for "senior people"

Let's talk about a dusty past. When I decided to start the publication of "World Network Manager", I was ordered to find a senior media person to be its editor-in-chief. It took me about half a year to get in touch with many senior media people and said a lot of good things. As a result, no one wanted to work in such a magazine that was not yet born. Finally, the boss had no choice but to put me on top and bite the bullet and let me be the executive editor. Later, as everyone may know, the development of online merchants in the world is not bad, and I, the executive editor, have overfulfilled my task.

For an entrepreneurial team, I don't think we should waste our time looking for senior people. On the one hand, no real senior people are willing to come, and on the other hand, if a senior person does come, he may not be as good as the founder.

what exactly is senior? This is also a question worth thinking about. Do you have many years of work? Did you prove yourself in your original company? Senior people may bring valuable experience, or they may be thinking patterns. For startup companies, senior people may not be able to help you much. You need to do everything possible to survive in a rapidly changing environment. What you need is to break the rules, not to pass on experience.

2. Real talents are hard to find

I used to think that there was a methodology in this world, which allowed me to master the method of finding talents after reading it. But looking back, the real talents I got almost all appeared inexplicably, and the normal channels (such as recruitment websites and campus recruitment) were very few.

My best reporter, Yang Qin, found me by private mail on Paidai. com. My junior, Qi Yu, found me by reading my recruitment message on Fudan BBS. My editor, Lu Jianing, was introduced by Qi Yu's former colleague. Tang Xiaoyou, whom I recruited in Ming Dow, was found through the WeChat public account ... < P > Finding a business partner is very similar to finding the other half. You can only rely on fate. Maybe many people want to hit me after reading it. "You said it for a long time, which means you didn't say anything!" However, this is the way it is.

3. Pay attention to the accumulation of "low-end" contacts

Everyone knows that contacts are very important, but most people may only pay attention to "high-end" contacts and ignore ordinary people around them, which is not worth the candle. You know, if you curry favor with high-end people, will people really value you? How much are you worth to others? I worked hard to save stacks of business cards and take photos, but when I really needed help, I found that the bamboo basket was empty.

when we try to climb the workplace pyramid, we need someone to pull you up and someone to support you down. Why did Chiang Kai-shek go out of office three times and be invited back three times? Because only he can command those generals, because he used to be the president of Huangpu Military Academy, and he has enough "low-end" contacts to support him.

so, pay attention to those low-end contacts. One of your "little fans" may be the general who will help you achieve great things in the future.

4. Cooperation rather than employment

As a startup company, don't overestimate your attraction to outstanding talents. What is attraction? Do you see that tens of thousands of young talents squeeze their heads for a civil servant position every year, all kinds of relationships and hidden rules? That's attraction!

then we don't have any advantages when facing the government, state-owned enterprises and foreign enterprises? There is a kind of welfare that they can't give, but we can, and that is a sense of accomplishment and personal growth. In a big company, the influence of individuals on the whole organization is hard to be felt. You are like a pinion, which can run without your machine, and it doesn't matter much if you change it. In large organizations, people do the execution work day after day without thinking, and the speed of personal growth is also very slow.

But in a startup company, the influence of individuals on the whole company can be fully perceived, which brings a strong sense of accomplishment to a young person. Moreover, startup companies often require employees to be able to do everything, and the growth rate of employees will be very fast.

if we want to stimulate an employee's work enthusiasm to the greatest extent, we must not let him feel that he is just selling his physical strength and time for the company, but let him feel that he is using the company's resources to work for himself. Therefore, the relationship between us and our employees is not an employment relationship, but a partnership that each needs.

5. Enterprises with values are more attractive

Alibaba attaches great importance to values, which has been criticized by many people, even comparing Ma Yun with Chairman Mao, but from my practical work, values are really very, very important. A person's work performance is equal to the product of business ability and values. In other words, under the premise of the same business ability, the contributions made by two employees with different degrees of conformity with the company's values may be several times different.

what exactly are values? Generally speaking, the company's values are the values of the founders and top leaders. Soldiers bear a nest, will bear a nest, fish begins to stink at the head, said is the truth. Moreover, values can be transmitted, and they will be directly reflected when you hire employees.

The reason why I work very hard and have a sense of accomplishment in Ming Dow is largely due to my great agreement with the founder Ren Xianghui's value concept-polishing products like craftsmen, and firmly believing that socialized management is a general trend to make everyone's work easier.

There are many things that can make money in this world, but not all of them can bring you psychological satisfaction. Be a company with strong values, and then those who share your gas field will naturally be attracted.

6. Don't always think about keeping employees

From my heart, I certainly hope to keep the backbone in the company, but my reason tells me that if you want to keep them, the only way is not to try to keep them.

I forgot who told me this sentence: "Your true value will be reflected in your next job." This sentence is really right. I have observed many successful people in the workplace, and most of them have changed jobs several times before they can get their current positions. Changing a company is often the quickest and most effective way to improve your rank.

Everyone is eager to succeed and get ahead. You can't stop your employees from thinking so. The better the employee, the harder it is for you to keep him, because he can have many choices. Since you can't stay, simply don't think about it, and regard the achievement of an employee as the success of your work. At least when you do this, you can completely arouse his enthusiasm during his work in your company, which is enough for you.

the only condition to retain employees is that the growth rate of the company is higher than that of the individual employees. Salary, options, contracts, it doesn't matter.

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