As B2B software investors, my colleagues in the investment team at EVP spend a lot of time considering highly detailed aspects of what makes a great software business, and drawing back insights that will help them assess those on the path to being great.
They talk through cohort analysis, spend hours on Google Sheets and Excel, trawl through CAC/LTV ratios and mention any of the other plethora of acronyms that seem to exist in the world of SaaS.
As a humanities student turned recruiter, much of this goes over my head but the one area I find common interest with my colleagues in is around the employees and operators behind these startups, and those who want to jump the fence and join them (I am aware this is also an entirely self-serving interest given my job at EVP is to help our startups recruit).
What makes these people tick, why do they do what they do, how did they come to get into that position, what on earth actually is a Product Manager - are all questions that keep me up at night.
Recruitment as a process is opaque; some roles are advertised, some are not, job descriptions for similar or the same titles can be vastly different, feedback can often be limited or unhelpful and it can be a grind pinning down what job is right for you or which company might be a great fit.
Ultimately, the job of a recruiter is to assist candidates through this process and utilise their expertise and understanding of the roles and companies they work with to point candidates in the right direction. One of the things that attracted me to the role at EVP was the ability to do this at scale across a growing number of startups. To help the startups build great teams and help candidates join great businesses.
Having been in the role for over a year, some of the inherent love of software at the business must have sunk in - today we are launching EVP Talent_OS, a platform allowing anyone interested to not only access both advertised and unadvertised positions across our portfolio, but also to be able to have frank (and confidential) discussions with our Talent, Platform and Investment teams about roles and careers in tech. By using Talent_OS, candidates will have unparalleled access to existing and future job opportunities in the EVP Portfolio.
We are also launching the EVP Talent Blog. This blog series exists to demystify common startup roles and create clearer pathways by showcasing how some of the exceptional operators within the EVP Portfolio got to where they are, and some of the skills they needed or have picked up along the way. Every fortnight we will release a blog post highlighting a role that exists within a different function.
Whether you’re working in a startup, considering getting into tech, or wondering what pathways might be available to you, our aim with Talent_OS and the Talent Blog is to open up avenues for exploring what might be possible.
By signing up to Talent_OS, you can stay up to date on different openings within our B2B software specialised portfolio. If an opening catches your eye and you'd like to chat, please reach out to me.
As B2B software investors, my colleagues in the investment team at EVP spend a lot of time considering highly detailed aspects of what makes a great software business, and drawing back insights that will help them assess those on the path to being great.
They talk through cohort analysis, spend hours on Google Sheets and Excel, trawl through CAC/LTV ratios and mention any of the other plethora of acronyms that seem to exist in the world of SaaS.
As a humanities student turned recruiter, much of this goes over my head but the one area I find common interest with my colleagues in is around the employees and operators behind these startups, and those who want to jump the fence and join them (I am aware this is also an entirely self-serving interest given my job at EVP is to help our startups recruit).
What makes these people tick, why do they do what they do, how did they come to get into that position, what on earth actually is a Product Manager - are all questions that keep me up at night.
Recruitment as a process is opaque; some roles are advertised, some are not, job descriptions for similar or the same titles can be vastly different, feedback can often be limited or unhelpful and it can be a grind pinning down what job is right for you or which company might be a great fit.
Ultimately, the job of a recruiter is to assist candidates through this process and utilise their expertise and understanding of the roles and companies they work with to point candidates in the right direction. One of the things that attracted me to the role at EVP was the ability to do this at scale across a growing number of startups. To help the startups build great teams and help candidates join great businesses.
Having been in the role for over a year, some of the inherent love of software at the business must have sunk in - today we are launching EVP Talent_OS, a platform allowing anyone interested to not only access both advertised and unadvertised positions across our portfolio, but also to be able to have frank (and confidential) discussions with our Talent, Platform and Investment teams about roles and careers in tech. By using Talent_OS, candidates will have unparalleled access to existing and future job opportunities in the EVP Portfolio.
We are also launching the EVP Talent Blog. This blog series exists to demystify common startup roles and create clearer pathways by showcasing how some of the exceptional operators within the EVP Portfolio got to where they are, and some of the skills they needed or have picked up along the way. Every fortnight we will release a blog post highlighting a role that exists within a different function.
Whether you’re working in a startup, considering getting into tech, or wondering what pathways might be available to you, our aim with Talent_OS and the Talent Blog is to open up avenues for exploring what might be possible.
By signing up to Talent_OS, you can stay up to date on different openings within our B2B software specialised portfolio. If an opening catches your eye and you'd like to chat, please reach out to me.