To invent a product, you need to invent the team. New tech needs current skills. And new skills that cannot be found from traditional talent pool built for established roles; roles that have been optimized for executing the needs of the bigger organizations which have already transitioned out of their startup phase. New skills requires conditioning minds for new perspectives. Therefore, the one who designs Talent Acquisition for those needs is ‘no less than an Inventor’.
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You will be Augmenting the founder in designing the roles, assist in strategizing the acquisition plan for every role, doing the market research and discovering the talent as to their need.
Beyond hands-on Hiring activity, your primary contribution will be towards...
Role Invention – Finding talent that invests is the core of this role. We need resources that provide us the skill combination and play that role. Except that the Market – be it academia or Industry - trains and builds talent for demand.
Demand comes from established orgs that have transitioned out of their Startup phase. So where do we find talent that invests?
Strong understanding of what an organization is and why certain roles come up and its impact on business.
Contrast how same titled jobs differ between orgs and strategize sourcing – Its easier to source market data but its highly deceptive.
Study organizations and evolution of roles and its evolution with Time, scale and phase.
Work with the Concerned team, Tech and non-tech to carve out the role needed and design the role with feedback from market availability.
Resource/Talent Discovery - As Industry dictates the Skills and determines the market, we need to understand the industry and the organizations that constitute industry. Identifying relevant sources as well as channels of recruitment for roles in both tech as well as non – tech is a key responsibility
Evaluation & Talent Journey:
Design the Evaluation Journey and strategize the inter