I am curious what others success with posts on "Who is hiring?" has been. I have been posting a couple of positions for two different companies over the past two years and only got a hand full of applications from medium to lower quality candidates (not good matches for the respective positions). I don't think location should be the issue (Berlin) and Visa was also always available. Stacks not absolute cutting edge but modern and interesting products. And of course I tried to optimize the content for the audience looking at other posts in the past threads. Anything I might be missing?
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#2HN demographics plays a role, of course. More discrete and tailored manners through headhunters or, at the other end of the spectrum, cold calls to engineers working at direct competitors in your niche should give better outcome.
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#3Most of the people prefer remote these days.
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#4I've not received one single usable resume. Lots of headhunters regularly send me email now, though, so the admonishment to not use the contact info provided for commercial purposes is not being heeded. I've given up posting.
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#5If you point to the particular postings might be easier for people to give helpful feedback.
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#6Complete speculation, but may be that in general EU salaries are lower than US so not many ppl want to take that kind of cut despite differences in cost of living?
Thats been a blocker for me in the past in moving back to the EU.
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#7Most of the people prefer remote these days.
Citation needed, that sounds like a very biased view of things.
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#8My company had the same trouble. The demographics here trend too hard toward the Bay Area (we are located in a different, large, and tech heavy US city). Overall candidates tend to be younger and less experienced, oftentimes with boot camp backgrounds. Posts here also apparently tend to attract applicants who specialize in trendy, fad of the moment stacks or more "light" languages and frameworks, when we are looking more for embedded people. In any case, the candidates here are the type we don't have trouble finding through more traditional and better targeted channels. Our recruiting pain points are at the senior and up levels, in enterprise and embedded stacks.
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#9I've just received a few speculative emails from recruiters and some from freelancers on different continents wanting to take on office-based roles from their location.
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#10Chiming in from the other end of the line, I occasionally check the hiring threads to see if there are any interesting offers up. There's a lot of content and most of the time, the descriptions are pretty poor (namely buzzwords and fluff) or the offer is not easily findable. To stand out, make sure your post is clearly titled, straight to the point and findable by common keywords.
I think optimizing the content by looking at other posts isn't a good strategy — in my (personal and biased) opinion, most of the offers are badly written.