Startup’s Guide To Effective Tech Recruiting

Doesn’t matter if you’re a product company or not, you will need technical people in your team who can drive technology to run your company. Since technology is growing at an unstoppable pace, every organisation wants to be faster and efficient in market.

Coming to the point: What can you do to make your tech recruiting more effective. There is no religious rule or a path to make this happen but you can follow the key points below to improve your process.

Understand the role

As soon as you sense a need for a new role in your company, create a list of accountability and what it takes to fill that role. The more you deep dive into this job role, better are chances for making a good hire. This is one of the most important step and where most companies fail, resulting in bad hires or over hiring.

Write a job description

Whether the role is small or big, job descriptions will enable you to measure the potential of that particular position. Be strict to what you are expecting out of them and objectively list must-haves so that candidates have a clear idea while applying. Setting up a clear expectation here can make your interviews more sensible and effective.

Learn the technology

Let’s face it. With growing technology, every company needs to upgrade itself and so be its people. For everyone involved in recruiting for tech roles, technology is a must have trait. I’m not saying you need to be a hardcore techie but what matters here is how much do you know about the role so that you and your candidate can have a meaningful discussion. At Least know the differences between technologies like Java and JavaScript etc.

Filter candidates

This is another key element of your tech recruiting process. Once you’ve received the applications, you should be as responsive as you can. Whether the candidate is good or bad you need to deal with them. It may happen that you end up wasting a lot of time in people who are not fit for the role that they’ve applied. The solution to this is technology. Yes, today you can objectively test candidates on various skill-sets without much hassle.

Conclusion

Tech recruiting can give you nightmares if not done properly. As the years pass it will become even more tougher to chase and find talent who is right fit for your team. Make sure you have put enough time and thought towards it.

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