Hiring at Invact
How is the company attracting the top talent of the country?
Invact is on a full-fledged hiring spree. I have had to take so many interviews these past few months that you might call me a recruiter, rather than a founder. Honestly speaking, our team is spoilt by choice. The general procedure in hiring is to take ten interviews and find one person good enough for the job. Our task is to choose only one person out of the ten great candidates. Each of them deserves the job and it's difficult to settle for just one.
This got me thinking. Scroll through Twitter and you will find numerous entrepreneurs struggling to find the right talent. At Invact, we have already accumulated a great density of talent. We have people from all the top brands - IITs, IIMs and ISB, FAANG - working with us. The majority were hired even before the funding news came out to the public. So what's working for us?
Founders
Manish Maheshwari is hands-down one of the best business leaders today. He has immense experience working with companies in different fields. Actually, I don't even need to talk about his achievements. He's just so good. And at Invact, you directly work with him and learn from him. How many of us get such an opportunity in our entire lifetime?
On the other side, I don't want to sound boastful but I am also somewhat recognized in the tech industry as a thought leader. My work has built a reputation for me that engineers consider me knowledgeable enough to work with.
Working at Invact offers a great opportunity to directly work with the two of us. I think that's an important factor in our success in hiring the top talent.
Vision
The metaverse is new and exciting. Meta, Google and Microsoft are the main companies working in this field, and then there's Invact. It is the future, and people want to get their foot in this door.
For experienced professionals, joining Invact offers an easier path to enter the metaverse. Meta, Google and Microsoft do not hire for specific teams. They hire people to join their company, and internal movements are not that easy.
The early-career professionals that we have hired have been honest with their goals. Most of them want to startup and build their own companies some years down the line. They find Invact the one place to get guidance and learn from the best in the industry before working on their ventures. And I absolutely love that.
Mission
Success can mean different things to different people. It may mean money to one or fame to another.
In my dictionary, success means significance.
The mission of Invact is to make quality education accessible to everyone. We want to do good work and create an impact on the world. I think this is what calls out to the people who join us or apply to work with us. Earning money and learning on the job is great, but people do want to work on something meaningful. Invact offers that very opportunity.
How did I fare?
I realise that the three points are difficult to duplicate for any startup. But the recruitment work that I have had to do in the past few months has reinstated my belief in this country's talent. I am sure Invact Metaversity will play a significant role in bringing the right opportunities to this table.
This is my assessment of Invact and how it has been able to attract the best brains of the country. Did I do well? Is there anything else that you think is working in our favour? Share your thoughts in the comments below. And if you like the issue, spread the word to your friends and on social media.
Hi Tanay, I'm a big fan of your work. You have helped so many individuals to get ahead in life. Thanks for all the amazing work you have done.
I think your vision of providing quality education to everyone is really ambitious and meaningful pursuit. But sometimes I feel that we Indians are so obsessed with education that we forget to recognise the final goal of education. I believe one main goal is to use it to reduce the sufferings of not only ourselves and our family, but everyone in the society. How successful are we in doing that?
I think being educated and going to work in companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon is amazing. But I think we should also focus on building companies that solve actual problems in our society right? Like for example rather than implementing solutions for making facebook and instagram more addictive, may be our youngsters should focus more on solving problems like energy crisis, waste management, pollution control, improving the lives of farmers through technology etc in our country right?
I believe that the end goal of whatever we are doing should be to solve problems like these. I think as a founder of a company, you have the power to direct your company towards missions like these. To encourage youngsters, not just to work for companies like Google and facebook, but work on lessening the sufferings of people in our country / society through entreprenarial and technological efforts.