【When is the best time to have an HR for your startup?】
Recently, quite a few startups from AppWorks Accelerator realized that while they are expanding their engineering team, they may also need to recruit someone professional in Human Resource.
“What took you so long to realize that?” I responded
As the conversation went deeper, I realized that a lot of startups are often in this relax working environment (in a more casual outfit and office setup) that sometimes blurs the line between being structurwise.
How we see startups generally would be quick-moving, dynamic businesses that don’t want to get bogged down by policies, procedures, regulations and unnecessary bureaucratic work.
However, failing to have an HR strategy in place for your startup is setting yourself up for failure in the future.
Then, the most often asked question is even if I know I need an HR someday, but when exactly is the best time to have an HR?
I would say, when you meet 15 to 20 team members, and are thinking of expanding another 5 to 10 members within a year or two.
Startups less than 15 members, especially in early stage, founders often played multiple roles, which included simple human resources tasks. But once you are expanding the team, it’s not just about hiring itself, but more towards compensation (pay & benefit), performance management, employee training, policy creation, legal protection (hiring & firing), hiring branding and a lot more…
I could continue listing out what the HR has to cover, and that just doesn’t sound fun at all, when this workload is on top of startup founders, while they also have other important things to be focused on.
The HR would fit the startups, is not like the traditional HR that we used to work with or know, as with with finance or administration skill, but more of as a strategic partner and employee advocate.
If you have more than 20 employees now, and still don’t have an HR, maybe this is the timing for you to hire one.
By Izza Lin,
Recruiting Master
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