Hiring Process
Why Finding Your “Why” Matters More than ever During Virtual Hiring
With more people working from home, it can be a challenge to maintain the right team dynamics and the cultural glue that holds it all together must be industrial strength. So how do you ensure that you continue to hire the right people? In particular, how do you find the right fit with virtual leadership? …
Read MoreWays To Attract More Diverse Cannabis Executives
One aspect of the cannabis business that is ripe for change relates to how it represents certain groups. From learning more about the industry to finding ways to join its community, here are some tips for diversifying the business for people of color and those who identify as LGBTQ.
Read MoreWhy Your Job Description Is Setting Your Next Executive Hire Up for Failure
There are both advantages and disadvantages of job descriptions. Many companies use them to hire talent, relying on a list of responsibilities to back themselves up if anything goes wrong. Faced with an underperforming executive or high turnover amongst leadership teams, CEOs and boards may pull out the job description to assure themselves that their…
Read MoreRetained Search vs. Traditional Recruiting: Who Wins in the War for Executive Leadership?
Executive search firms provide people — and who doesn’t need people? In a low stakes position, you can probably rely on the tried and true methods of recruiting. After all, there are lots of ways to fill a seat. So if that’s all you need, finding a candidate is relatively straightforward. Who knows…you might stumble…
Read MoreValley Tech Firms Embrace WFH As Long-term Change
We started 2020 bright-eyed and bushy-tailed—charting growth plans, ramping up hiring, and building out KPI lists that probably look completely different today. While 2020 showed up differently than anticipated, enough time has passed for companies to look back on what went right and what opportunities lie ahead. Y Scouts spoke to a number of SaaS…
Read MoreHow Has Hiring During COVID-19 Changed?
For those of you wondering how COVID changed the hiring game, look no further. Hiring pre-COVID was hard enough. Hiring during COVID-19 presents another set of challenges that we need to be aware of to be successful in the new world we live in related to hiring the right, the best, and the brightest. Hiring…
Read More9 Fresh Interview Questions to Reveal Culture Fit When Hiring C-Level / CxO Leadership Roles
Every role in a company must be a culture fit. This is especially important the higher up you get in an organization as leaders set the tone for the organization. When hiring for a CxO leader, here are 9 helpful interview questions that will assist in determining their fit — both in skillset and core…
Read MoreHow to Make a Decision to Hire an Executive Search Firm
Y Scouts CEO, Max Hansen, Shares 3 Critical Questions to Make This Hiring Decision: What is the cost of not hiring your next leader? What will hiring the right leader enable you, the leader, to do that you’re not doing today? What is the cost of hiring the wrong person? Let’s dive deeper. What is…
Read MoreA Look Behind the Venture Capital Investment for Mental Health Startups
According to a report by Fierce Healthcare, investments in mental health and wellness startups have been increasingly on the rise. Mental health and wellness companies raised $321 million across 26 deals in the second quarter of 2019 with large rounds going to Quartet and Talkspace. Top investors included Centene, Google Ventures, Oak HC/FT, Norwest Venture…
Read More8 Interview Questions to Uncover the Person Behind the Resume
We’ve all been there: that interview with the stale questions and canned answers that give each participant precisely zero information about who the other is and whether this opportunity is a fit for the candidate (and vice versa) or not. We can do better! Develop interview questions that allow the candidate to be honest and…
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