A VC in Vacationland

Well, here we are in 2015 and your start up desperately needs new employees, especially engineers, product or user experience people, right?  You and a hundred other companies in your backyard are in the same boat. How do you find good people fast?

Here are a few thoughts on the best places to find them:

Traditional Job Sites–you might as well post to the usual job and alumni sites, but these are never very useful except for generating a lot of paper to read…some examples:

 http://venturebeat.com/jobs/  Venturebeat

https://www.linkedin.com/job/venture-capital-jobs/  LinkedIn

http://www.northeastern.edu/careers/employer/post-a-job/  Northeastern Alumni job board

Passive candidate sites–Your best candidates already have a job, and may be tempted to look if their identity is kept anonymous until they are really interested in speaking to a potential employer. Here are a few of the newer sites:

https://poachable.co/ Anonymous job finding site for employees (employers post jobs)

http://www.poachtapp.com/ another anonymous job fining site

http://www.switchapp.com/ another anonymous site

Networking–The best way to find new employees, in my experience. I use LinkedIn and Facebook to post to my network. Also get your current employees motivated to probe their networks by offering a cash reward for any friend hired (payable if they stay six months an ddon't get fired).

Good luck and get going early!