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January 5, 2021

Volta Ventures And LevelUp Launch Human Capital Program For Startups

“As the founder of Blanco Fintech, one of Volta’s portfolio companies, I was able to have numerous strategic HR Sessions with LevelUp. These sessions provided me with a lot of insights and being able to discuss freely with experienced people who have a fresh, outside perspective has helped me enormously. The HR strategy themes for

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Volta Ventures And LevelUp Launch Human Capital Program For Startups

General

Economic Outlook: Founders’ & VC’s COVID-19 Sentiment Survey

Economic Outlook: Founders’ & VC’s COVID-19 Sentiment Survey

No one said a crisis would impact our tech ecosystem fairly, equally, or even negatively… OK… Travel, leisure, retail, advertising & production are hit hard; rippling through entire supply chains and hurting some of you as technology providers. But some sectors are surfing the first wave: online education (Squla), streaming workouts (Peleton), remote exams (Proctor Exam),

COVID-19 Ponderings: The US Unemployment Reaching Great Depression Levels

COVID-19 Ponderings: The US Unemployment Reaching Great Depression Levels

Update As per 5th of June 2020, the official unemployment numbers came out. Corrected for earlier errors in the unemployment numbers (due to misclassification), the official unemployment number is quite high at 16.3% (or 27 million), but not as bad as we expected it to be based on the numbers below. There is potentially still

Managing Up – How to Speak the Language of Decision-Makers

November 28, 2019

Managing Up – How to Speak the Language of Decision-Makers

Me, 26 years old, lots of hair, but no beard; I was wearing a suit; I had a big bank as a customer and this bank had a gigantic IT security problem. They were willing to buy our solution that would solve that problem for two million euros. I had everything set up: the supplier,

Recruitment

The Job Vacancy Checklist Every Recruiter Needs

August 26, 2020

The Job Vacancy Checklist Every Recruiter Needs

You are stuck. You have written a high-quality vacancy, but no sign of many great candidates just yet. Of course, you know you can’t rely on applicants only, but you know you can do better. Like no other I know vacancy writing is tough. In this article, I will share with you my personal checklist

New To Tech Recruitment? Here Are 5 Resources To Grow Your Tech Knowledge

New To Tech Recruitment? Here Are 5 Resources To Grow Your Tech Knowledge

My whole life I considered myself to be a bit of a geek. Most of my family members work in the tech industry as IT professionals. Because of this, I always thought that I have a better understanding of current tech, programming languages, and “get” the lingo. I was wrong. In January, I joined LevelUp

Why Is My Job Advert Not Working? 6 Questions To Ask Yourself…

Why Is My Job Advert Not Working? 6 Questions To Ask Yourself…

Does this sound like an ordinary start to your morning of recruitment? “Please be a good applicant 🤞.. Ok not you, but maybe THIS one”, followed by “oh well, better luck tomorrow”. I’m curious how many mornings this takes before you improve your job advert content? And more importantly, what modifications do you make? Here are

Employer Branding

16 Steps To Building An Impressive Startup Employer Brand On A Budget

Startups don’t typically have an abundance of time or money. Therefore, a startup employer brand strategy needs to be penny-wise and time-effective. So, what actionable steps can you take right away to build or improve your first employer brand? Well, after three months of working on this, I finally have 16 steps to implement a

13 Reasons Why Investing In Your Employer Brand Makes Sense For A Startup

We’ve worked with a hell of a lot of startups, and they all had one thing in common; ALL of them were careful with spending their cash on employer branding. But, investing in your employer brand makes perfect financial sense! Check out my first blog in this series “Is an employer brand more than six boxes?” before

Is An Employer Brand More Than Just Six Boxes?

Who am I? How do I come across to others? Have you ever posed these questions to yourself? Taking stock of who you are at your core helps us understand ourselves. But still, people will have different opinions about you. The question of “who am I” is subjective. What is an employer brand? For companies,

Recruitment Operations

How to Reduce Waste In Your Lean Recruitment Project? – Project Management Series

How to Reduce Waste In Your Lean Recruitment Project? – Project Management Series

Lean project management is all about reducing wasteful activities and making the whole process more efficient. And that’s what I love about it! Especially in recruitment, a very process-heavy industry, adopting a project management style like Lean can make your project more streamlined and effective. Lean is all about creating value and if you consistently

Best Practices For Using The Waterfall Management Style In Recruitment – Project Management Series

Best Practices For Using The Waterfall Management Style In Recruitment – Project Management Series

I’ve always been a fan of Waterfalls. No, I don’t mean the ones that have flowing water cascading down mountains (although those are beautiful!). I mean the project management method… It’s one one of the oldest styles used in projects and nowadays is seen as quite old-fashioned and unsexy. Waterfall management style became popular from

Working Agile: Why & How Can You Take It Into Recruitment? – Project Management Series

Working Agile: Why & How Can You Take It Into Recruitment? – Project Management Series

You’ve heard about it before – working Agile. This has become hugely popular in the workforce now, especially in tech or software development teams. We’re currently using Agile in our recruitment process at LevelUp. However, some people might still not know what it actually is. What does being Agile mean? Agile is a group of

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