Tech Recruitment: Guidelines

Recruiting technology candidate is the focal trial for numerous recruiters worldwide. Fortunately, there are many effective methods to approach techies. In this article post, you will learn the tips and tricks for recruiting tech talent!

Challenges in recruiting tech talent- The majority of techies are so-called passive candidates. It means that the best tech candidates aren’t actively looking for a job. They already have a job, so you won’t find them on job boards.

Fortunately, there are many effective methods to approach techies – 

Tech Recruitment: Guidelines #1: Understand the technical position you are looking to fill

Recruiters who don’t have a tech background often struggle with understanding which skills are essential for a specific technical position they are looking to fill.

For example, do you need a back-end, front-end, or full-stack developer? What are the most important skills this developer should have?

Tech Recruitment: Guidelines #2: Understand the Techie

To be successful in finding, attracting and hiring the best tech talent, you have to understand them. What is your ideal candidate like?

Here is some additional information you might find useful!

According to an Economic Survey of Software Product companies - 

•          Over 85% of tech talent is male 

•          About 3/5ths of professional developers are younger than 35 

•          Almost 80% of developers said they have taught themselves a new language outside of their formal education 

•          57% of developers have less than 5 years of professional coding experience.

•          Almost 90% of developers check in their code via Google/Git 

•          Over 84% of developers are employed at least on contractual 

•          Frequent job changes for developers are the norm - about half of developers have taken a new job within the past 2 years.

Tech Recruitment: Guidelines #3: -Understand what your candidate wants

Now that you’ve outlined your ideal job candidate, it’s time to dive in deeper. You need to find out what makes techie tick!

What drives them? What motivates them the most? What are their wants and needs? And what is a deal breaker for them when it comes to work?

Some great insights into how techies assess the potential new job:

•          Overall, tech talent’s top priorities in a new job are the compensation and benefits offered, followed by the specific technologies that they’ll work with.

•          When developers are assessing a potential job, they care most about their tech stacks & job responsibilities. They care less about things like other benefits provided by company. 

Tech Recruitment: Guidelines #4: Learn how to speak in software techie’s language

If you really want to understand technical candidates and build an expressive relationship with your candidates, you have to learn how to speak their language.

Mr. Khan, a Consultant at Success Pact, sums this up well, saying: -

“Java is to JavaScript as a car is to the carnival. Developers care a lot about underlying technology and a recruiter who doesn’t understand the difference gets treated with contempt”

Don’t worry - you don’t need to be an expert at coding to recruit tech talent. However, you do need to know the basics of the programming technologies you’re recruiting for.