Hiring is becoming a growth bottleneck for startups. It starts simple. Post a role. Interview. Hi...Hiring is becoming a growth bottleneck for startups. It starts simple. Post a role. Interview. Hi...
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Hiring is becoming a growth bottleneck for startups.
It starts simple. Post a role. Interview. Hire. Then growth hits. Pipelines dry up. Agencies get expensive. Founders become the recruiting team.
I’ve spent 17+ years building recruiting systems for tech and government teams (Amazon, Microsoft, NASA, GovCon). One pattern repeats: Startups don’t need a full-time VP of Talent. But they do need the system one would build.
So I packaged it.
Startup Hiring Playbook
Build a hiring engine in 30 days without a full-time VP of Talent.
1. WHAT IS IT?
A validation tool for early-stage founders. Answer 6 simple questions, and it analyzes your competitors, pulls real-time market insights, and rates your idea: strong, medium, or unclear.
2. WHY I BUILT IT
Most early-stage founders start building on gut feeling. They skip research because it is slow and confusing.
3. WHAT PROBLEM DOES IT SOLVE?
Founders waste months on ideas nobody needs. Idea Validator replaces guesswork with real market insights and shows:
Action Staffing: website for a UK recruitment agency
I built the website for Action Staffing, a UK recruitment agency. It presents their services, explains their four-step hiring process, and gives employers and candidates a simple way to get in touch.
What I built:
- The full site in Next.js, with clean, responsive pages
- A job listings setup that publishes jobs through AWS S3
- Candidate profile documents generated as Word files with Node.js