Recruitment in a Startup: Ten Mistakes to Avoid
36mGeneral2025-06-04
Authors

CRFT Productions
Full-Service Learning Content Company

Fiona Dewar
Course details
Hiring the right talent is critical to the success of any startup, but it’s easy to make costly mistakes along the way. In this course, Fiona Dewar—a trainer and management consultant with over 35 years of experience—shows you the top 10 recruitment mistakes startups often make and, more importantly, how to avoid them. From defining organizational needs and company values to avoiding rushed or delayed hiring, you’ll gain insight into how to approach recruitment strategically. Fiona will guide you through aligning expectations, improving your interview process, and ensuring a smooth onboarding experience. By the end, you’ll have practical tips to attract the right talent, build a strong team, and set up your business for growth.
Skills covered
RecruitingHuman ResourcesLimited Series
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - The key success factor to grow your business
1. Things to Know about Recruiting for Startups
- 02 - Why hiring well is so important
- 03 - Why recruiting often goes wrong
2. The 10 Mistakes
- 04 - Failing to define organizational need when recruiting
- 05 - Unclear company values when recruiting
- 06 - Relying on your network to find hires
- 07 - Hiring the mirror of you
- 08 - The cost of poor interview structure
- 09 - Thinking recruiting is all about you
- 10 - Hiring too slowly
- 11 - Hiring overskilled candidates
- 12 - Misalignment of new employee expectations
- 13 - Poor onboarding of new team members
Conclusion
- 14 - Your next steps to recruitment success