How to Determine How Selective You Should Be In Hiring
Ten great candidates which one do you choose? One of the biggest struggles with companies right now is finding the right talent. Some industries have large talent pools to choose from but others have dry wells with only a handful of candidates. How many rounds of interviews should there be and how much resources […]
Should Companies Give Up On the Quest for Rockstar Talent?
“I just hire some smart people and get out of the way” – IDEO, chairman and founder. You have probably heard of this quote numerous times from Silicon Valley companies that believe as long as you hire smart people, get out of their way, and get a few ping pong tables, the company will […]
Recruiting Software Engineers with Tech-Refreshes
During my sophomore year at the University of California Berkeley, I was one of 400 students in the intro to computer science course. By the time I was graduated, that intro class tripled in size. That extreme change is symbolic of today’s software engineer economic demand. Consequently people all around the world are deciding to […]
Should Employees Know Each Other’s Salaries?
In 2011, a tech startup called SumAll decided to try something new. Instead letting everyone negotiating their salaries and hiding who gets paid what, the startup decided to pull the curtain back- letting everyone know each other’s salary. Within their database, there was a table that had everyone’s name and their corresponding salary. Anyone had […]
Attract More Talent by Leveraging Videos In Job Ads
I am not completely sure why companies are not leveraging this technique more. In my software engineering days, I received about a dozen emails a week from recruiters and very rarely would firms ever leverage videos in their job ads or emails. Often, I would find their emails faceless and uninteresting like a paste fill-in […]
How to 12x the Number of Applicants for a Job Posting
Begrudgingly, I decided to join a friend who was going to a conference in downtown Oakland, California. At the time, I lived in Berkeley, just five miles north of the conference. My friend had an extra ticket and thought it would beneficial for me to attend Hustle Con– an event where the top entrepreneurs around the […]
Find the best recruits for your business with the power of ‘I-You’
If you’ve ever been in the job market, you know about recruiters. And if you know about recruiters, chances are you probably don’t like them. As a new graduate of Software Engineering from the University of California Berkeley, the #2 ranked school in computer science in the United States, I probably received every kind of […]
Hiring Software Engineers – Use Github to filter candidates
Hiring Software Engineers in 2017 The ability to recruit quality software engineers takes both time and knowledge in order to find the right fit. If you are fortunate enough to have the infrastructure capable to fund co op and internship programs with universities, then your task is a little less daunting. For smaller companies, however, […]