recruitment
Recruitment — Under 100 People
What This Process Does
Recruiting at this size is the founder's or first-recruiter's most important function — every hire shapes culture, product, and trajectory for years. You're hiring 5–40 people per year, mostly senior (few juniors at this stage), mostly through referrals + inbound + proactive outbound. One dedicated recruiter at ~30 employees; before that, founders and hiring managers source themselves.
The work: attract great people, interview efficiently, decide fast, close hard, onboard smoothly. Speed matters — top candidates are in process with 3+ other companies. Reputation matters — bad candidate experiences travel; good ones bring referrals for years.
Start Here: ERP•AI Templates
ERP•AI's Early-Stage Recruiting template provides an ATS workflow (intake, pipeline, interviews, scorecards, offers), careers-page generator, referral-bonus tracking, and candidate-experience automation. Connect to Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, or ERP•AI ATS for core pipeline management.