Ask HN: How start doing technical hires?

#1

Post by necrecious » Sat, Jul 23, 2011, 6:25 PM UTC

I am a first time entrepreneur looking to start hiring developers after doing all the initial development myself.

While I've lead tech teams and have conduct interviews as part of an established company, doing it as a one person shop is much harder.

The first problem is getting applicants. Are paid job boards worth it?

After getting applicatns, how do you manage them? Do you use something like Resumator?

Re: Ask HN: How start doing technical hires?

#2

Post by phyllotaxis » Sat, Jul 23, 2011, 6:34 PM UTC

The question that pops out to me after reading your request is what is the role of these people? Are you just looking for contract code, or co-founders? These are two fundamentally different people/groups, requiring two different aproaches during the search for them.

Re: Ask HN: How start doing technical hires?

#3

Post by seanp2k » Sat, Jul 23, 2011, 6:36 PM UTC

>"How start doing technical hires?" You could start by not scaring off any technical people with your improper grammar.

>"applicatns"

If you can't even take the time to write a proper title and use ASpell to check spelling errors, how do you ever expect that any good technical person will want to join you?

Re: Ask HN: How start doing technical hires?

#4

Post by aw9994 » Sun, Jul 24, 2011, 1:29 AM UTC

There are plenty of qualified people here looking for work, whether it be temporary or long-term. I myself am looking for work for instance.

Before looking into paid job boards, post in the "Who's Hiring" threads that go up each month or contact posters in the "Looking for Work" threads.

How many people are you looking to hire at once, just one or an entire team?

I also agree with phyllotaxis, you need to decide and advertise what type of developers you're looking for. Do you want a co-founder to take over the technical side for you, or do you just want code monkeys that can fix bugs, or somewhere in between?