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Building a Team from Scratch: Recruit, Hire, Onboard, & More

4 courses in 1! Learn how to recruit, hire, onboard, and build the best possible team for your organization

Created byEvan Kimbrell
4.6
(59 reviews)
IntermediateUpdated May 17, 2025
Building a Team from Scratch: Recruit, Hire, Onboard, & More

What You'll Learn

check_circleLearn the goals of recruiting and how the process works from start to finish, including sourcing candidates and utilizing various tools.
check_circleExplore strategies to find ideal candidates through existing employees, social networks, and other platforms.
check_circleDevelop skills to conduct thorough and insightful interviews to select the best candidates for the job.
check_circleUnderstand the importance of onboarding, how to implement it effectively, and ways to evaluate and improve the process.

About This Course

When it’s time to build a team from the ground up, it’s easy to get overwhelmed because of the many moving pieces that come with the process. You have to recruit the right people, go through the hiring process, onboard them correctly, and then integrate them into a healthy and productive team environment. There are a lot of obstacles that you might face along the way, such as finding qualified people that aren’t currently employed elsewhere or making sure you retain them for as long as possible when you do find a great match.

In this course, we’ll cover ways in which you can optimize all these processes in order to be able to build a successful team. We’ll talk about:

  • The goals of recruiting and how the process works from start to finish
  • Finding the perfect candidates through existing employees, social networks, and various other places
  • Where to look for talent and which tools can be used to help the process
  • How to conduct effective interviews and select the best candidate for the job
  • Why onboarding is such an important function within your business
  • How to properly evaluate your onboarding process for adjustments and improvements
  • How to evaluate and lead an effective team
  • Bringing teams together through trust and communication
  • How to develop a culture of teamwork within your business

By the end of this course, you'll have everything you need to recruit, hire, onboard, and build the best possible team for your organization.

Your Instructor

Evan Kimbrell
Evan Kimbrell

Founder of Sprintkick | Ex-VC | Ex-startup founder

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Hi, I'm Evan Kimbrell. Thanks for checking out my course. **My courses have been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, BusinessInsider, BuzzFeed, Mashable, TheNextWeb, The Daily Beast, & Techcrunch** Currently, I'm the Founder and Director of Sprintkick, a full-service, referral-only digital agency based out of San Francisco. Over the past four years I've overseen the development and launch of over 100 web and mobile apps. Clients range from two-man bootstrapping startups to multibillion dollar Fortune 100s like Wal-Mart, Dick's Sporting Goods, and GNC. Prior to Sprintkick I worked as a VC for a new firm called Juvo Capital, based out of L.A. I spearheaded the firm's expansion into Silicon Valley and into the Consumer Web tech category. In the long long ago, I was a co-founder for an educational software startup called ScholarPRO that raised a ton of money and then spectacularly blew up (in the bad way). Before it exploded like the Death Star, I went through five tech incubators (yes, five): Tech Stars, Excelerate Labs, MassChallenge, Babson Venture Program, and Sparkseed.

Credit Information

Do these courses count toward my professional development requirements?

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What Students Are Saying

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