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How Startups Can Create a Candidate Avatar and a Candidate Scorecard

Greg Toroosian is the founder of Elevate Hire, a talent acquisition firm which provides leadership and senior-level recruiting services for early stage companies. He has spent more than a decade in talent acquisition recruiting for technical positions in software and IT, and has experience building non-technical teams in finance, marketing, and business. He believes recruiting and retaining talent is key to having a successful company. Greg is also the host of the Elevate Hire Podcast.

Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn: 

  • An overview of Elevate Hire’s mission and how they help their clients find and train the right people for the right position
  • What is a candidate avatar and how should startups think about developing one when they’re about to hire someone?
  • Greg Toroosian explains why having a candidate avatar is crucial for any role in the company
  • Common mistakes companies do in the process of creating a candidate avatar
  • What is a candidate scorecard and why it’s important for the hiring process
  • Greg shares his view on whether candidates should be made to undergo tests and its weight on the scorecard

In this episode…

Hiring the right person for the right position in your company can be a tedious task, but it has to be done if you want to ensure your company’s success. According to Greg Toroosian, founder of Elevate Hire, there are two things that can help you zero in on the right candidates for your company: the candidate avatar and the candidate scorecard.

In this episode of Elevate Hire Podcast, John Corcoran of Rise25 interviews Greg Toroosian on what candidate avatars and candidate scorecards are, how these can help companies in their hiring process, and how his company can make things easier and more convenient for startups who are ready to take their business to the next level. Stay tuned.

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Sponsor for this episode…

This episode is brought to you by Elevate Hire, a talent acquisition firm which provides leadership and senior level recruiting services for early-stage companies. Elevate Hire also offers advisory and consultancy services for select clients.

Elevate Hire was founded by Greg Toroosian after more than a decade in the Talent Acquisition space, working with startups, globally recognized brands and recruiting agencies, because I found that too many early-stage companies were struggling to recruit and retain top talent during crucial times of growth. 

Because recruitment and talent retainment are keys to having a successful company in today’s fast-paced economy, Elevate Hire is committed to helping you recruit the right top tier talent, at the right time, can differentiate the most successful companies from the rest of their field. 

If your company needs assistance with talent search, hiring process improvements, choosing and implementing recruiting tools, team training, or if you’re in need of an advisor, get in touch with us today to find out how we can make this work so that you can start building the company of your dreams.

Click this link to learn more about us and the services that we can provide for you and your company.