HR Besties: Start Ups 101
HR BESTIES
HR Besties LLC
4.8 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Today's agenda:
- The manual of me
- Cringe corporate speak: take it offline
- Hot topic: all things start-ups: how to be successful, key traits and how to survive in an evolving organization
- What is it like working as an HR professional in a start-up?
- Reactivity vs. proactivity
- Working in an unpredictable and evolving environment can be an effective way to grow in your career
- Opportunities to build departments from the ground up
- RSUs and equity
- Informing and influencing on the job - it's not for everybody
- How do HR and all other business professionals, employees and leaders help shape a healthy startup culture?
- Questions/Comments
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| 0:00.0 | I once worked at a startup where my new leader proceeded to send me a manual of her. |
| 0:15.1 | It was called manual about me. |
| 0:17.7 | About you, about her. |
| 0:19.4 | About her. |
| 0:20.6 | And she asked me to review it prior to our first one-on-one. about me. About you, about her. About her. |
| 0:25.1 | And she asked me to review it prior to our first one-on-one. |
| 0:26.9 | And I was like, okay. |
| 0:30.9 | And immediately I thought, oh, this is so fucking gringy. And I thought, no, no, no, Jamie, you need to stop. |
| 0:34.0 | Like, you know. |
| 0:34.6 | Give it a chance. |
| 0:35.6 | Have an open mind. |
| 0:37.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:37.4 | This is your new leader. And I click on it and I pull it up. And it was long, y'all. |
| 0:42.3 | I mean, it was a manual. It was long. And it listed out basically about her as a leader, how she likes things done, how she likes to set meetings up, how she likes to |
| 1:00.9 | respond to emails, how and when she'll be available, very detailed about just like her work |
| 1:10.0 | in general, but also it got personal. And it told a little bit |
| 1:14.2 | about like her backstory and like her cat died. And it was a lot. I read it and I thought, |
| 1:21.6 | Jesus Christ, I don't want to know all this information. It was just too much for me. And you know what? Truth be told it was really |
| 1:30.0 | cringy as fuck. I hated it. Ashley and I are kind of speechless here. We're just like, |
| 1:36.3 | I'm both speechless and I have so many words to come out. But let me ask a question. When you say |
| 1:43.2 | lengthy, like around multiple pages or yes, I would say it was probably like five pages. What format? I know. What format? Is this PowerPoint PDF? Yeah. So if you actually Google and then this is not an ad, but there is such a thing that you can create this online apparently because I googled it because I was like, |
| 2:01.5 | who the fuck would come up with it? Where's this template? There is literally a site and I guess you get to |
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