LinkedIn solved a real market inefficiency in hiring. By mapping the professional networks of millions of people worldwide in the 200s, they lowered the barrier to search for talent by skill, connection, or location in a really really useful way. They were able to monetize the data they had on professional networks because by lowering the barrier to search for employees, they lowered Read the article >>
The following post is a guest post authored by Josh Rivedal. Josh is founder, executive director of The i’Mpossible Project, and an author, actor, playwright, and international public speaker on suicide prevention, mental health, and diversity. Captain’s log, Stardate January 2011. Where unfortunately many have gone before. I’m twenty-six years old and thinking about dying… actually Read the article >>
I am introducing the following litmus test to define what a good recruitment email looks like: Message is personalized (beyond first name). Sender mentions a common interest or connection. Sender clearly read my blog, or my github. Sender sounds like a human, not a corporate PR robot. Pitch is targeted towards plausible next steps in growth of my personal career (skills, experience level, Read the article >>
I push back on SPAM recruiter messages when I can. The most common rebuttal I hear from recruiters is: “I don’t have time to customize outreach” or “It would be too time consuming to customize outreach”. Why it’s nonsense: Let’s do The Math Let’s presume Recruiting is a full time job. That means you have 40 hours a week * 60 minutes = 2,400 minutes each week. Let’s liberally say a third is spent Read the article >>
I covered why you should stand up for yourself and other engineers when receiving a spam post from a recruiter here. Here are some templates of what you can say to respond to a recruiters untargeted cold outreach: Template 1: Stop SPAMMING. NAME, I don’t respond to spray & pray recruiter messages, and I’m not looking for work right now. You’d know that if you read my profile or customized Read the article >>
There truly is market value in helping folks find new careers. Technical recruiters have the potential to be the grease in the wheel of the new economy, to help people achieve better, bigger, things with their skills; To uplevel their salaries, to life them out of poverty. And to help companies uplevel their teams and their products. But if one separates the *tactics* from the *endgame* Read the article >>
As a techie who has been getting interested in photography the last several years, I’ve been looking for opportunities to learn from other photographers in the Boulder community. What I’ve found is that most of these people are usually either (1) creatives with BFA backgrounds who are trying to learn more about technology / gear or (2) techies like me who are trying to learn more about composition Read the article >>
CloudApp is one my essential mac tools. CloudApp allows me to share a screenshot or a record a video with a couple keysrokes. I just press [Apple]-[Shirt]-4 and click-and-hold to drag an a square area on my desktop. When I release, that screenshot is instantly uploaded to the cloud and the URL to that cloud image is copied to my clipboard. Here is a screenshot of my twitter feed that took Read the article >>
SpiderOak One is one of my favorite tools for Mac OS X. SpiderOak One is like Dropbox, but they care about your privacy. Their systems have *zero knowledge* of what’s in your data. All of the data on their servers (it can also be hosted on your own servers) is encrypted and SpiderOak does *not* have the keys. Plus, its as easy to use as Dropbox. There is a mac application you download Read the article >>
I’ve written in the recent past about bad behavior by recruiters and have gotten some questions about how I would recruit engineers for my startup. Great question, and it just so happens I have signed over 25 offer letters as a technical recruiter over the last several years. Here’s an example of how I cold LinkedIn-Message’d them a few weeks before the offer letter. [name], We’re always Read the article >>