Tech Startups and the Hiring Challenges Associated with Rapid Growth

Let me take a stab at it.  It’s Monday morning, you are coming off a weekend high due to your company just securing stacks of VC cash last week (which you heard rumors a month ago was going to happen), and your boss calls you into her office.

Boss: “Hey, so about all those hires we need to make. We have the money to open up reqs for sales, marketing, business development…how is our pipeline looking!”

You: “Uhhhh…, it’s going well.”

Boss: “Great, I want to see candidate pipeline reports daily. After all, the longer it takes to hire, the longer it will take for the VCs to see an ROI.”

You: “Sounds good.” (Fear and shaking in your voice)

This happens all too often in the tech start-up world. HR is thin, hiring managers are focused on sales pipeline and closing deals, product, and engineering are building next-generation technology, and in most cases, there is not enough time in the day to recruit the very best talent to move your business into a strong competitive position.

Think of it this way, it takes on average 52 days to fill most positions, though the top candidates are only on the market for 10 days, according to Bersin by Deloitte. If you do not have a team working for you actively banging the street to fill the candidate pipeline, chances are, you are going to lose those candidates.

Finding the best talent takes an enormous amount of time, which most start-ups don’t have the resources to properly invest (other than capital). Which is where a third-party recruiting firm can significantly reduce the hiring gap timeline and fill the pipeline with top talent within their network.  

At Cloud Executive Search, we know the challenges start-ups have in building a team of A-players because we’ve been there. We are the Cloud industries premier Recruitment Agency supporting many of the leading Cloud Suppliers, Master Agents/Distributors, VARs, MSPs, and forward-thinking industry leaders. Our primary focus is on pre-sales positions: Sales, Business Development, Channel, Sales Engineering, Operations, Marketing, etc. Our experience lies in years of leadership roles within the Telecom, Data Center and Enterprise Software industries. As individual contributors and global executives, we have done the jobs our clients are looking to fill on their team. We've built organizations, recruited top talent and grown revenues as a result and are now taking our approach to disrupting the Talent Acquisition Industry! We are not a company of recruiters, we are a group of executives that help our clients build world-class teams.