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Serena Ultimate Recruitment Playbook – Chapter 6: How much do your talents cost ?

How do you determine employees’ pay according to their job functions or experience level? How to design the right compensation package? In this last chapter, pick up learnings on compensation plans and valuable data from our salary benchmark!

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Serena Ultimate Recruitment Playbook – Chapter 5: Recruitment KPIs and Tools

If you’re a forward-thinking company, you need to continuously seek to improve your internal processes and measure their efficacy with precision. Recruiting is definitely no exception.

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Serena Ultimate Recruitment Playbook – Chapter 4: Employer Branding & Personal Branding

Now more than ever, branding is paramount for an organization to stand out and draw in relevant and motivated talents.

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Serena Ultimate Recruitment Playbook – Chapter 3: How to source top-notch candidates efficiently

Because top-notch talent is hard to find at the moment we need it, you need to keep sourcing. You’ll find in this chapter the main platforms we recommend for sourcing, tips for an employee referral program and direct approaches, and more.

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Serena Ultimate Recruitment Playbook – Chapter 2: Creating a best-in-class Candidate Experience

Candidate experience is a powerful talent acquisition asset that often gets overlooked. Check out our 10-step timeline to ensure a memorable one, as well as our scorecards examples and reference checks questions to make sure you hire the perfect fit.

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Serena Ultimate Recruitment Playbook – Chapter 1: Building your A-players organization

Your guide to ace your recruitment and talent management! Chapter 1 covers how to structure your organization depending on your next funding round.

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HR CSR Diversity

Actionable strategies to make your recruitment more inclusive

You’ll find in this playbook practical recruitment methodologies, best practices (from both our portfolio startups and the ecosystem), concrete examples, ready-to-use templates to implement D&I at every level of your hiring process.

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Scaling and structuring a data team – Playbook

Alan‘s playbook on data team structuring: vision, pillars, team architecture…

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Implementing a distributed working scheme – Playbook & Workshop replay by Launchmetrics

Launchmetrics’ learnings and best practices on the distributed working model.

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Implementing an effective ESG strategy – Playbook & Workshop Replay by Dataiku

Dataiku’s learnings on how to optimizing your company’s social and environmental impact?

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Setting up an efficient stock-option (or BSPCE) plan – Playbook & Workshop Replay

Guidelines by Lifen and CybelAngel to BSCPCE plans.

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Sales Compensation Plan – Guidelines

Full Sales Compensation Plan Guidelines, in French and English.

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CFO job description template

Ready-to-go job description to hire your next Chief Financial Officer.

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Off-site deliverable – Templates

As your company grows from 10 to 200 people, here’s how to build your own management rituals.

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Chief Marketing Officer Job Description – Template

The job description you need if you’re on the hunt for your next CMO, whether you’re a BtoB or BtoC.

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A talent pool that matches great profiles we meet with job opportunities in our portfolio companies.

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OKRs implementation – Playbook

Playbook to setting up a successful OKR plan.

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Serena’s Ultimate Tool Pool

+ 180 recommended tools database that covers all of the departments: marketing, sales, HR, Finance… 

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