Are you guys willing to coach to self-taught programmers(who do not have a comp sc. degree) for the entry level jobs? Or you are focused on taking experienced candidates and groom them for more senior level position?
Jobstart – Personalized, expert guidance to land your next software job
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Re: Jobstart – Personalized, expert guidance to land your next software job
#72Jobstart works with job seekers to help them get hired, and gets paid when their recruiting clients hire their candidates. Sometimes Jobstart's candidates get jobs at non-clients, and Jobstart doesn't get paid.
Jobstart can help negotiate offers, for which they charge the candidate 20% of the difference between original and accepted offer.
I'm an independent agency recruiter, and it sounds a lot like what I do. I don't charge candidates for negotiating services though.
I agree that most recruiters aren't very good at what they are supposed to do. Positioning yourselves as coaches is a marketing strategy to differentiate from those recruiters, but what you are doing is basically the same thing as what a good (both skilled and 'benevolent') recruiter might do, no?
Re: Jobstart – Personalized, expert guidance to land your next software job
#73Jobstart works with job seekers to help them get hired, and gets paid when their recruiting clients hire their candidates. Sometimes Jobstart's candidates get jobs at non-clients, and Jobstart doesn't get paid. Jobstart can help negotiate offers, for which they charge the candidate 20% of the difference between original and accepted offer. I'm an independent agency recruiter, and it sounds a lot like what I do. I don…
Hey there! Great questions.
1) All of our coaches are experienced engineers. 2) We're much more involved than recruiters. We're going to run you through in-house interview gauntlets if that's what you want and need (detailed feedback included). We'll rip apart your resume and start from scratch if that's a smart thing to do. I've found 0% of the recruiters I've talked to can do those things effectively -- perhaps you're different, but we've never met. :] 3) We help you network. 4) We'll actively help you look at companies outside our recruiting contract scope. We'll recommend companies that we don't work with. This is not a "sometimes candidates get jobs at non-clients" sort of thing. This is more of a "let's put you first, no matter what" sort of thing.
Re: Jobstart – Personalized, expert guidance to land your next software job
#74Hey guys! Cool idea. Sounds like a great fit for my partner. Do you work with remote workers, non-US citizens?
We prioritize people in the US, but we'll technically take any application.
Re: Jobstart – Personalized, expert guidance to land your next software job
#75Are you guys willing to coach to self-taught programmers(who do not have a comp sc. degree) for the entry level jobs? Or you are focused on taking experienced candidates and groom them for more senior level position?
Absolutely willing to take self-taught programmers. In fact, in our experience thus far, we've found self-taught people tend to get better results when coached/mentored.
Re: Jobstart – Personalized, expert guidance to land your next software job
#76This is excellent idea. At least how I understand it. Recruiters such badly and we have very little reason to work with them. This would provide better value proposition and make devs more motivated to work with them.
Re: Jobstart – Personalized, expert guidance to land your next software job
#77Are you guys willing to coach to self-taught programmers(who do not have a comp sc. degree) for the entry level jobs? Or you are focused on taking experienced candidates and groom them for more senior level position?
Same question here
Re: Jobstart – Personalized, expert guidance to land your next software job
#78Are you guys willing to coach to self-taught programmers(who do not have a comp sc. degree) for the entry level jobs? Or you are focused on taking experienced candidates and groom them for more senior level position?
Absolutely willing to take self-taught programmers. In fact, in our experience thus far, we've found self-taught people tend to get better results when coached/mentored.
Do you accept overseas candidates? I would like to relocate to USA or to take a remote developer job
Re: Jobstart – Personalized, expert guidance to land your next software job
#79I was looking into this. Sadly it requires that I provide a LinkedIn profile which I don't have.
As a hiring manager, I use LinkedIn either to primarily source engineers or to validate the experience of an engineer that I found via some other means (open source project, coding event, etc). To some extent, if you don't have a LinkedIn you don't really exist within the job market - which is fine I guess if you never intend to change jobs but might be something you do want to do some day :) I'm actually curious why…
I have considered moving away from LinkedIn and designing an online resume. LinkedIn is not perfect, there are plenty of reasons you might not want to use it.
Besides finding engineers, what does LinkedIn provide you as a hiring manager that a resume would not? (Assuming an online resume or a pdf has links to company information, references, etc.) I can't imagine anyone actually puts stock in LinkedIn "endorsements" or "recommendations".
Re: Jobstart – Personalized, expert guidance to land your next software job
#80Are you guys willing to coach to self-taught programmers(who do not have a comp sc. degree) for the entry level jobs? Or you are focused on taking experienced candidates and groom them for more senior level position?
Absolutely willing to take self-taught programmers. In fact, in our experience thus far, we've found self-taught people tend to get better results when coached/mentored.
I am a self-taught programmer but I find hard to crack the entry level full stack developer position in SF bay area. Almost all startups are looking for a senior developer (at least 3-4 years experience). So I am in a catch 22. Do you guys have plan to coach newbie developer for junior level position?