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Talent Acquisition Strategy for a Company With No TA Team
A talent acquisition strategy for founders with no recruiting team: the six parts, who owns each step, and a budget per role with sourced prices.
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A talent acquisition strategy for founders with no recruiting team: the six parts, who owns each step, and a budget per role with sourced prices.
Sourcing in recruitment means finding and contacting people who have not applied yet. See how it differs from recruiting, the steps and a worked example.
Metaview prints prices for 3 agents: Notetaker Pro at US$60 per user a month, Sourcing at US$100 or US$300. Every plan, checked October 2026.
Recruiting software for a small business, by budget: a spreadsheet, a free or paid ATS, and a per-role search tool, with prices checked in October 2026.
How many LinkedIn InMail credits each plan gives, how many roll over, when you get one back, and what a credit costs a recruiter. Checked October 2026.
A fractional recruiter is a part-time recruiter you pay by the hour, month or hire. See published prices, per-hire math and when it beats an agency.
Offer acceptance rate = offers accepted / offers extended x 100. See what counts, benchmarks from Gem, Ashby and NACE, and how many offers you need.
15 operations manager interview questions for the person hiring, by stage, with what a strong answer shows, the warning sign and a 1 to 4 scoring scale.
15 customer success manager interview questions for hiring managers, by stage, with what a strong answer shows, the warning sign and a 30-60-90 exercise.
LinkedIn x-ray search strings by role, tested on Google on 3 October 2026: what page one returned, where the results fell apart, and how to fix each string.
Five recruiting metrics that still mean something at under 20 hires a year, how to count each one, and how to read small numbers without fooling yourself.
A free recruiting dashboard template for small teams: six numbers, one sheet, formulas that work in Excel and Google Sheets, and how to read it weekly.
A job requisition is the internal request to open a role. Get a copyable template, see how it differs from a job description, and turn it into search criteria.
15 interview questions for people managers on feedback, conflict, poor performance and hiring, with what a strong answer shows and a 1–4 scoring scale.
15 interview questions for internal candidates, by stage, with what a strong answer shows, the warning sign, and a 1–4 scale that keeps tenure out of the score.
15 finance manager interview questions on close, forecasting, controls and cash, grouped by interview stage, with what a strong answer shows and a 1–4 scale.
A free recruitment plan template for founders and small teams: one row per role, a budget per role, a runway check and a worked example to copy.
Contingency recruiting means you pay an agency only if you hire its candidate. See reported fee ranges, the math on a real salary, and when retained fits.
The people who could fill a role, tracked by stage. How to build a talent pipeline for each role, with an example, stage counts and a sheet to copy.
A practical runbook for pausing, merging or restarting a hiring search with a preserved record, evidence review and named owners.
Define time-to-fill with explicit start and end events, pause rules, mature cohorts, denominators, source controls and decision gates.
A practical runbook for choosing startup interview stages, assigning owners, testing evidence and fixing unnecessary steps in a distributed team.
A practical way to budget founder interview time for one role, with capacity inputs, delegation rules and stop conditions.
Design a high-volume hiring intake with role segmentation, evidence gates, capacity assumptions, candidate experience controls, owners and stop conditions.