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Internal Vs. External Recruiters, And How to Secure the Best Talent for your Startup
How Do You Develop a Successful Hiring Strategy? When hiring for startup jobs, one of the decisions you’ll need to make is whether to internalize your recruitment process or use external recruiters. Get your recruitment strategy wrong, and the cost could be overwhelming. While there is some debate over just how much a poor hire…
Read MoreThe Most Effective Ways to Interview a Full Stack Engineer
Tips to Structure the Interview Format and Questions When hiring for a full stack engineer, your final decision will be highly influenced by the candidate’s performance in the interview process. If your interviews are poorly designed and you ask the wrong questions, the candidate you select is likely to be the wrong one. And that…
Read MoreHow to Hire Your First Engineer as a Startup Founder
Introduction According to a study by Shikhar Ghosh reported in Entrepreneur magazine, 75% of all VC backed startups fail. CB Insights researched the top 20 reasons startups fail. Any guesses? You’d probably expect to see things like ‘failure to pivot’ or ‘poor marketing’ to be at the top, but those actually ranked much lower. The…
Read MoreHow to Retain Top Frontend Engineering Talent
Expert Insight to An Industry-Wide Challenge Frontend engineering talent is notoriously hard to retain. And despite drowning their employees in perks like free meals, childcare and transport, even the largest tech companies struggle to retain their best employees. In a sector that is so tight on talent, an inability to retain frontend engineers is especially…
Read MoreWant More Female Software Engineers at Your Startup? Here’s How To Do It!
Want More Female Engineers at Your Startup? Here’s How to Do It! It’s no secret that there is a scarcity of female representation in tech. This is even more true in regards to female software engineers. According to a recent article by Builtin, women make up 26% of the tech field as a whole and…
Read MoreWhy The Best Software Engineers Aren’t Applying To Your Job Postings
Tips to Boost Hiring Success in Software With high-average salaries, low unemployment, and a high forecast for growth of job opportunities, hiring for software engineers is tough. Yet we know that for the right opportunity (and it’s not always about the money), the most talented people in software development will move. So why aren’t your…
Read MoreTo Hire Great DevOps Engineers, Stop Throwing Spaghetti at the Wall
Hire Talent with a Transparent Recruiting Process You’ve tried hiring DevOps engineers through recruiters, but all you seem to get is a bunch of poor candidates who are underqualified and short on the experience you need. If this sounds like your hiring experience, then you’re using recruiters who ‘throw spaghetti at the wall’. What Is…
Read More5 Tips to Hire Remote Software Engineers Successfully
Building an Effective Remote Hiring Strategy Hiring remote software engineers can help your organization in many ways. This includes boosting productivity from immensely talented engineering staff. For example: A two-year study conducted by Stanford concluded that Remote workers produce the equivalent to an extra day’s work each week 70% of employees say that working remotely…
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