noHR Hiring Kim Ross (@kimbertles) Martijn Verburg (@karianna) - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

noHR Hiring Kim Ross (@kimbertles) Martijn Verburg (@karianna) Kudos to Zoe Slattery (@zoe_slattery) Session ID: 3861 Friday, 8 March 13 1

noHR Hiring - who are we? Kim Ross • – Indie game developer & freelancer with a passion for big data – Hired & managed game teams where every member is essential – Has made hiring mistakes but also found some gems Martijn Verburg (aka "The Diabolical Developer") • – CTO of jClarity - Java performance tooling for cloud – Co-leader of the London Java Community – Has hired (and sadly) fired many talented folks Friday, 8 March 13 2

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noHR Hiring - What are you looking for? What are you looking for? 4 Friday, 8 March 13 4

Audience pic • 5 Friday, 8 March 13 5

noHR Hiring - What are you looking for? Let's define a role 6 Friday, 8 March 13 6

noHR Hiring - What are you looking for? 1. Personal qualities 2. Cultural Fit 3. Practicalities 4. Technical 7 Friday, 8 March 13 7

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noHR Hiring - What are you looking for? Can HR help? 9 Friday, 8 March 13 9

noHR Hiring - Assessing candidates Assessing candidates 10 Friday, 8 March 13 10

noHR Hiring - Assessing candidates Curriculum Vitae 11 Friday, 8 March 13 11

noHR Hiring - Assessing candidates 12 Friday, 8 March 13 12

noHR Hiring - Assessing candidates 13 Friday, 8 March 13 13

noHR Hiring - Assessing candidates Data structures and algorithms 14 Friday, 8 March 13 14

noHR Hiring - Assessing candidates Coding tests 15 Friday, 8 March 13 15

noHR Hiring - Assessing candidates 16 Friday, 8 March 13 16

noHR Hiring - Assessing candidates Public Contributions 17 Friday, 8 March 13 17

noHR Hiring - Assessing candidates References 18 Friday, 8 March 13 18

noHR Hiring - What are you offering? Why should they work for you? 19 Friday, 8 March 13 19

noHR Hiring - What are you offering? Job Adverts 20 Friday, 8 March 13 20

noHR Hiring - What are you offering? • "Minimum three years of experience working with Agile methodologies; Solid experience with UML; Scrum Master certification; Five years of Java development including EJB, multithreading, hibernate and Spring; Good knowledge of Puppet or Chef; Minimum of two years of experience with TDD and any mocking framework (preferably Mockito); Previous investment bank experience; Strong academic records . Fantastic opportunity to work with a very talented team in a great working environment. Great benefits." 21 Friday, 8 March 13 21

noHR Hiring - What are you offering? "We expect our developers to do much more than just writing code • – Help our clients to achieve their real goals—questioning the requirements, understanding why they are asking for it and how it contributes to their real goal. – Deliver new features every few days. – Develop a one-button-click infrastructure to deploy the applications into production. – Share knowledge by pair-programming with other developers. – ........... We don't like heroes and hierarchy. Our developers are the ones conducting all the interviews . Since we benefit so much from the open source community, we expect that all our developers are involved with community work, either contributing to open source projects and writing blogs, or attending user group meetings. This is our way to give something back ." 22 Friday, 8 March 13 22

noHR Hiring - What are you offering? Interviews 23 Friday, 8 March 13 23

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noHR Hiring - What are you offering? How do you manage people? 25 Friday, 8 March 13 25

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noHR Hiring - What are you offering? How does development/IT run? 27 Friday, 8 March 13 27

noHR Hiring - What are you offering? Challenge / Interest level 28 Friday, 8 March 13 28

noHR Hiring - What are you offering? Work Environment 29 Friday, 8 March 13 29

noHR Hiring - What can HR do for you? HR (aka Legal Compliance) 30 Friday, 8 March 13 30

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noHR Hiring - What can HR do for you? Keeping you legal 32 Friday, 8 March 13 32

noHR Hiring - What can HR do for you? Organise the process 33 Friday, 8 March 13 33

noHR Hiring - Agencies Let’s talk about recruiters... 34 Friday, 8 March 13 34

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noHR Hiring - Community hiring If only there was a better way.. 36 Friday, 8 March 13 36

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noHR Hiring - Community hiring Use Community Resources 39 Friday, 8 March 13 39

noHR Hiring - Community hiring 40 Friday, 8 March 13 40

noHR Hiring - Community hiring Conferences & Meetups 41 Friday, 8 March 13 41

noHR Hiring - Case Study www.recworks.co.uk 42 Friday, 8 March 13 42

noHR Hiring - Community hiring Remember Biz is Biz 43 Friday, 8 March 13 43

noHR Hiring - Finally It is extra work But it's worth it! 44 Friday, 8 March 13 44

Thanks! Kim Ross (@kimbertles) Martijn Verburg (@karianna) Friday, 8 March 13 45