Market Yourself to a Startup: 8 Things Startup Entrepreneurs Look For When Hiring You

Nader Houella
8 min readApr 22, 2021

In today’s increasingly competitive job market, startup employers are demanding qualities that go beyond the job-specific tasks and your fancy degrees. They’re looking for interpersonal qualities, creative thinking, grit, leadership qualities, and a cultural fit when recruiting a new candidate. They are also looking for evidence to back that up

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Nader Houella

Marketing and Communications consultant and professor. Published author. Award-winning researcher. Past President @Rotary and @Rotaract.