Priyanka Jain, co-founder and CEO of vaginal microbiome test and care company Evvy, is very involved in her company’s hiring process.
“Nothing is more important than who we hire,” she told CNBC Make It at Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies Gala and Summit. “I interview every single person before we hire them.” Evvy currently has 25 employees.
Jain also looks at candidate resumes, and there’s one section in particular that she believes can indicate some level of success at a startup like hers: the Interests section.
An Interests section could give a sense of your passion and motivation. Listing outside of work activities like nonprofit volunteering shows that you are a person “who goes above and beyond just what your job title tells you to do,” said Jain.
And that’s critical for a nascent company. Working at a startup “very much requires you to be feet on the ground, rolling up your sleeves, getting things done,” she said. A person who’s hungry to learn and do more fits right in.
