by Valeria Dimova | Mar 24, 2026 | Hiring
Headline: The First Thing I Do When a Company Has No HR at All When I step into a company where the HR function is nonexistent, many expect me to immediately start hiring or implementing complex software. But that’s starting at the finish line. The first thing I do is...
by Valeria Dimova | Feb 2, 2026 | News
Most founders I talk to blame the market. Candidates are passive. Salaries are too high. Good people are impossible to find. Sometimes that’s true. But after auditing the hiring process at a dozen companies, I can tell you: the bottleneck is almost always...
by Valeria Dimova | Jan 10, 2026 | People Ops
My job is done when I’m no longer needed. That’s not a modest thing to say – it’s the actual goal from day one. When I come into a company to build their HR function, I’m not trying to become indispensable. I’m trying to make myself...
by Valeria Dimova | Dec 15, 2025 | Onboarding
They thought onboarding was the easy part. They’d done the hard work: built a hiring process, structured their interviews, and made good decisions. Ten offers accepted. Ten people starting over the next six weeks. Then reality hit. What nobody tells you about...
by Valeria Dimova | Oct 3, 2025 | Onboarding
When the founder called me, they had three open roles, zero job descriptions, and a hiring “process” that consisted of a WhatsApp chat and gut feeling. Three weeks later, they made their first structured hire. Here’s exactly what we did. Week 1: Stop...
