Why Cultural Fit is Crucial to Startup Recruitment

November 21, 2012

The top talent you’re targeting may have great skills, but if they’re not a cultural fit they likely won’t last long at your company.

In the rush to hire top talent that accompanies every startup and expansion-stage company’s growth, it can sometimes be easy to focus too much on candidates’ experience and skills and too little on whether or not they’re a good cultural fit. But as OpenView’s Director of Talent Diana Martz explains in this short video, cultural fit should actually be one of your primary deciding factors for hiring employees who are going to thrive at your company for the long haul.

This is especially true for startup recruitment, where talent coming from a larger company might not find the same level of resources, support, and procedures they’re used to.

“We’re looking for people who want to help create a lot of those processes and procedures and are comfortable without having access to as many resources as maybe they would have received at a larger company,” Diana says.

Confirming organizational cultural fit not only makes recruitment ultimately more successful, it can be critical to improving talent retention, as well. There are plenty of opportunities out there for top tech performers, but the right cultural fit can go a long way towards ensuring a successful long-term match.

VP, Human Capital

<strong>Diana Martz</strong> is Vice President, Human Capital at<a href="http://www.ta.com/">TA Associates</a>. She was previously the Director of Talent at OpenView.