Recruiting and People Management

While working at the Daily, I learned about the challenges of recruiting and interviewing people. At LinkUp I still dealt with the complexities of hiring/interviewing/managing, but also spent 7 years lamenting with the challenges of being a job seeker. Although I've given talks and written in books about jobseeking, advice to jobseekers is pretty timeless:

• Always keep your resume and social networks up to date
• Expect that everything you write online will be read before you go into an interview
• If you see a job posting you like, print it out and keep it in your file - this way you can look back and see patterns in yourself
• Remember that the vast majority of people find jobs through networking, not through online job searching
• Still search for jobs online, but remember its just like watching the Food Network doesn't fill your stomach - it just helps you understand what you want to eat

Tools for Recruiting & People Management

• HackerRank - If you're a company hiring programmers, this is a great conversation starter
• Lever - The best applicant tracking system (ATS) on the market
• TripleByte's Hiring Manifesto - A great set of principles to guide your company's hiring practices
• Startup Playbook - A great source of advice for building the right team for your company
• The five keys to a successful Google team - Google's secret sauce for keeping teams effective
• How to Write a Great Developer Job Listing
• PHOPHET - Community-sourced tool for helping find a person's online contact information

This is one of my favorite topics, and I've been debating on starting a newsletter to share these as I find them. If you think this is a decent idea, tell me you'd like to subscribe.