Hacking the hiring process: an engineer's perspective

Your company is (most likely) terrible at hiring. Job seekers are disincentivized to reach out to you, but why? How do they overcome it? How can you make your hiring process less terrible? This talk will cover some of these questions, and hopefully raise some more to make you rethink your approach to hiring.

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1. Pam Selle, @pamasaur, thewebivore.com How to get your next job as a developer
2. Pam Selle, @pamasaur, thewebivore.com How to get your next job as a developer
3. Pam Selle, @pamasaur, thewebivore.com Hacking the hiring process
4. ✤ Pam Selle ✤ Software Engineer ✤ Gives advice often to job hunters
5. We have a hiring problem
6. We have a shortage!
7. Right?
8. “There’s no evidence...that there’s a shortage in the conventional sense…They may not be able to find them at the price they want.” “But I’m not sure that qualifies as a shortage, any more than my not being able to find a half-priced TV.” Hal Salzman, Rutgers University
9. No shortage? What’s the problem?
10. Hiring is DIFFICULT
11. And now, stick people
18. WTH is going on?
19. ✤ More noise ✤ More annoyance ✤ Misplaced incentives
20. Cui bono?
21. And for the talent?
22. Challenges ✤ Irrelevant leads ✤ Difficult to connect to employers ✤ Interview process is terrible
23. Creative Commons, aigle_dore on Flickr
24. There must be a better way
25. Pam’s 3 Step Job Hunt Process
26. Beyond the Résumé ✤ Hunt for targets ✤ Make first contact ✤ Nail the interview
27. Hunt for targets
28. “Your chances of getting a job you want vastly increase if you know what you want in a job" – me, Pam Selle
29. Hunting for targets ✤ Know and articulate what you want ✤ Reach out to your network to tell them you are looking
30. First Contact
31. Exchange the application process
 for a conversation
32. First Contact ✤ Find the best way to start a job conversation
33. Nail the Interview
34. Interviewing ✤ Never name a salary number early in the conversation ✤ Practice speaking intelligently about past success ✤ Practice interviews
35. What can employers do?
36. http://bit.ly/1jZivmP
40. Want more? pamselle.gitbooks.io/beyond-the-resume
41. ✤ http://talks.caktusgroup.com/all-things-open/2015/ hiring/ ✤ https://storify.com/anyharder/ disrupttechinterviews-using-psych-methods-maybe ✤ #disrupttechinterviews
42. @pamasaur | thewebivore.com | turing.cool THANK YOU