Victor Mahillon recruits top talent to OpenView and our Portfolio.
Full ProfileAs he moves on to an expansion stage company, an outgoing OpenView recruiter shares highlights from a successful tenure in venture capital.
When speaking with a prospect, we often want to sugar-coat things and agree with everything they say. Next time, try a little reverse psychology: a challenge.
You’ve just interviewed with this great company and they’ve made you an awesome offer. Now you go to your boss and tell him that you’re leaving. In a panic, he calls up his boss and HR and they put their heads together to see what measures they can take to keep you on board. Ah…
When you’re tasked with recruiting for a venture capital firm and its portfolio of almost 20 companies, things can get hectic. There are days when I have nothing scheduled except phone screens. Some interviewees are worthy of being moved forward to the next round, while many others are passed on. When a phone screen doesn’t…
I understand that every company reserves the right to provide returns to their shareholders. I also understand that this is no different for LinkedIn, who went public in May of 2011. Around this same time, I was using LinkedIn to post jobs that I was recruiting for either at OpenView Venture Partners or its portfolio.…
Well for starters, recruiting is sales. If you’re a strong salesperson, it rarely matters if you’re pitching technology, insurance or ice cream. Whether it’s on the phone or in person, if you know how to reach out to a complete stranger, anticipate their pain points and provide them with a kick-ass solution, then you’re a…
Nothing. You’d be hard-pressed to find a sales professional of high caliber willing to initiate a conversation with a recruiter during Q4, especially in December. If it’s been easy for you this year, perhaps question how good or committed of a salesperson that candidate really is. This is probably something you’d only discover later on…
OpenView Labs‘ team of recruiters will be doubling in the new year and it couldn’t have come at a better time. As OpenView Venture Partners continues to invest in more and more expansion stage technology startups (almost 20 now in our portfolio!) the People Team realized that the work wasn’t ever going to slow down.…
Whether you’re an expansion stage technology startup or an enormous corporation that’s been around forever, there’s always a hiring budget. Every hiring manager looking to bring on new blood has constraints to work within and he/she will always want to make sure that a competitive offer can be made if it gets to that stage.…
You might want to think again. Normally you can tell based on the overall tone of the interviewer, obviously there are exceptions to every scenario. However, here are three questions to ask yourself that should help you get some idea as to how well that phone screen really went. 1) Did we use up the…
