The Great Layoff

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Last week we highlighted how B2B tech founders can deal with the Great Resignation. This week we’re taking a look at the Great Layoff and what that means for our B2B tech founder. While the Great Resignation requires a degree of thoughtfulness in terms of how to compete given that dynamic, the Great Layoff presents opportunity albeit with a note … Read More

The Great Resignation…

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…or as Gary Vaynerchuk said, “what about the great ‘not even applying in the first place’?” The seeds of the “great resignation” go back several years and it was Texas A&M’s Anthony Klotz who gave it a name back in 2019. A 2021 Microsoft survey of over 30,000 workers showed 41% were considering quitting their job with that number rising … Read More

Assessing and Selecting Candidates Without Bias

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Our last blog post talked about how important it is to remove bias from job descriptions to ensure you have access to the largest talent pool possible. Excellent first step, now how do you remove bias from the application process, so you don’t get in your own way when hiring?  To do this, we need to find ways to reduce … Read More

Don’t Let Your Job Post Exclude the Best Candidates

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Here at The Right Five, we are committed to ensuring the first sales hire B2B tech founders make has the right skills and attitudes. We do this using proprietary technology that delivers the Pathfinder sales candidates (those with the requisite skills and mental framework) proven to be successful in this first sales hire role.   However, if the job description … Read More