Ep: 004 - Vinayak Ranade - Drafted - Creating a Better Hiring Experience

Startup Boston Podcast: Entrepreneurs | Investors | Influencers | Founders

English - September 23, 2016 05:00 - 50 minutes - 29.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
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Vinayak Ranade started as a software engineer at Kayak.com and ended up running the Kayak mobile engineering team as well as technical recruiting. At the time, Kayak didn’t have an in-house recruiting team, instead the recruiting was being done by the engineering managers. It was during this time, running the recruiting process at Kayak, that Vinayak realized this was something he really enjoyed. When he left Kayak, Vinayak knew the next problem he needed to solve was hiring, and thus, Drafted was born. Drafted, whose goal is to make recruiting fast, fun and rewarding for all involved, uses mutual connections to connect potential candidates with hiring managers through referrals.

In this episode, Vinayak shares amongst other things:

What he loves about the hiring process

What most companies get wrong about recruiting

The role of culture in recruiting

Why he started Drafted as an app

Why he thinks recruiting will become a marketing discipline

Links from this episode:

Lola

Blue Ocean Strategy

Lean Customer Development

Influence

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