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As a developer, I frequently wonder about the exact opposite question: where does one learn about companies in need of developers, and about what these companies do and how they do it. For example, if I were a frontend web developer looking for a company that builds their product(s) as a progressive web app using web components, where would I look? It's easy to find job boards filled with ads from recruiters; but har…
Where are the places that developers show up? On HN and Twitter. Do something to spread awareness of your company. It will be a long journey, but if you don't have $$$ to throw at a problem, you need to find alternatives: - There's a monthly "Who is hiring" thread on HN every 1st day of a month. - Create a technical blog. When it gets popular and people see that it's high quality, brand awareness will increase. It ta…
- UK: https://devitjobs.uk
- US: https://devitjobs.us
- Germany: https://germantechjobs.de
The audience is growing steadily and the US and UK sites are free to post (but you have to provide the salary)
Have found DMs on Twitter to be high ROI. Recruiters in the UK can be hit or miss as it's such a low barrier of entry job. Some out there that really are worth their weight in gold and others out there that give them all a bad name.
It is a shame that 95% rotten apples give them all a bad name.
- In the initial stages, we've recruited from within our own network of former colleagues.
- We had a successful open source project and recruited from amongst its contributors
- We hired people that our employees had worked with before and that they recommended
- We went to meetups and conferences, talked about technology and what we were doing. After the talks you often have conversations with attendees that might be interested in the project.
Here's what never worked for us:
- job ads / "career" section on our website
- going to meetups with the sole goal of recruiting people
- linkedin cold outreach
As a developer, I frequently wonder about the exact opposite question: where does one learn about companies in need of developers, and about what these companies do and how they do it. For example, if I were a frontend web developer looking for a company that builds their product(s) as a progressive web app using web components, where would I look? It's easy to find job boards filled with ads from recruiters; but har…
I suppose that smaller companies think they don't have the resources to maintain their job listings in various databases, but I think they should.
I work for a small-ish engineering firm on a small rock off the Norwegian coast. The local labour market for engineers, technicians and developers is pretty much empty - as in, everybody with the skills required and the desire to live here already does. Recruiting more often than not means sniping, or, if we're lucky - that someone has recently found a partner with desirable skills and coaxed them into moving up here…
It changes with size. For my own company we started with just two co-founders and eventually grew. We did so in a number of ways: - In the initial stages, we've recruited from within our own network of former colleagues. - We had a successful open source project and recruited from amongst its contributors - We hired people that our employees had worked with before and that they recommended - We went to meetups and co…
I can imagine this is a quite sustainable way of recruiting in the long term in general.
I work for a small-ish engineering firm on a small rock off the Norwegian coast. The local labour market for engineers, technicians and developers is pretty much empty - as in, everybody with the skills required and the desire to live here already does. Recruiting more often than not means sniping, or, if we're lucky - that someone has recently found a partner with desirable skills and coaxed them into moving up here…
Seeing your team from all over the world, are you guys still hiring? Taking apprentice?
(The catch being that we currently do not have any remote employees and it is nigh on impossible to hire someone from outside the Schengen area unless they've already found another way to legally stay here. That usually means either being granted asylum or marrying someone, I'm afraid)
You should be articulate and explicit about your hiring needs to your network, and careers page etc. Add a link to your company in your profile! You are on the front page of Hackernews, but even though I'm looking for one of the roles you mentioned and wanted to know more I can't see what you're hiring for or anything about your company.