Recruitment hacks
It’s been a while since I wrote something, since I spent the last year working on my own company Gymify. But given the fact I have picked up hiring again I figured it was time for a new post.
My friend Tris Revill shared a nice recruitment hack on Linkedin the other day (see the Spendesk one) so why not kick 2018s writing off with an update to my most viewed/upvoted Quora answer.
Let’s get started with some fresh content:
The team over at Slite, building the note app for teams, created a small Slite wiki to inform their candidates on the hiring process as well as sharing insights on how the engineering team works and of course a provides a clever sneak peak into the product:
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The growth team over at Spendesk figured lots of the people they are trying to hire watch Mr. Robot, so they put an ad in the French subtitles saying: “do you want to work at a startup? Spendesk is hiring”
Nice! cc Tris Revill
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The team at Aula.education have a neat hiring process which is mostly async. They created a slack channel called #introduceyourself and you then trigger their hiring process.
Read about it here: https://www.notion.so/Async-engineering-interviews-at-Aula-bce436a4230c4f0d8b19bc717232d289
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While searching for her replacement at Bloomon (flowers on delivery), Teddy Dimitrova dropped this image in a recruiter slack group. She’s well known for reaching out to developers in her “TeddyScript” language. Clever way of standing out from the rest.
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A nice one from Thijmen Klompmaker & Sjamilla van der Tooren from their time at Blendle. Being on a small budget Thijmen took recruitment to the Blendle developers by building a small ATS (applicant tracking system) in a Github repository, smart! 🧠
Sjamilla wrote an insightful blogpost about how to do it yourself: https://medium.com/@sjamillavdtooren/budget-sourcing-101-building-a-talent-pool-in-github-dcda0e08d517
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Here’s an example of something I did at Improbable:
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A reach-out that I like from Poki, executed by Sjamilla and yours truly. We asked our devs to edit a codepen we came across and sent it back to the developer who built it:
Some that never grow old:
A thing I tried when I was in Atlanta working remotely: sending out my Device Name as a wireless Network / discoverable device on existing network, while working in coffee shops and what have you:
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Andre Hellstrom, at that time leading Spotify recruitment, created this playlist for hiring their developers (read the track titles top ➡️ bottom):
Still one of the best things I have come across:👏 for Andre Hellstrom.
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From my time at Improbable: I asked our frontend team to build our Logo out in ASCII, when you inspect our page you get a nice call to action.
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As I agree with Aline Lerner that resumes suck I made a NoResume section that’s still used today:
Read an insightful blogpost from Aline about why resume’s suck: http://blog.alinelerner.com/resumes-suck-heres-the-data/
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That’s it, if you have some stuff to share please do so in the comments.
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