How do you hire the right tech talent when you're not a highly technical person? That's one dilemma faced by business professionals in a competitive labor market. Traditional hiring practices and attitudes may not work when you want the best engineers, programmers and coders for your business. When you have a management degree and the person across from you has advanced computer or engineering skills, keep a few essentials in mind to avoid frustration.
Bottom Line It
Instead of coming up with weird recruiting tactics, woo your tech talent by remaining honest during the hiring process. Explain why your company is the best option. This topic affects all current and potential employees and has nothing to do with specialized skills.
Source Your Hires
Go out and find the tech talent you want before you start hiring. Mine LinkedIn and other social media to discover people you think might fit in well at your company. This lets you prescreen prospective candidates, increasing the quality of your hiring pool. The hard part of sourcing your hires involves paring down the list to the best possible people.
Discover Strong Skills
Hire tech talent for strong skills as opposed to personality. It's your job to make sure product goes out on time, and the perfect tech person can make all the difference. Your company is there to make a profit as quickly as possible to gain a competitive edge over rival firms.
Know What Engineers Want
Engineers want to work with like-minded people who know what they're doing, and they love using tools that make their jobs easier. Consider hiring an IT manager who has an engineering or programming degree rather than a management degree. Tech staffers love creating new product and facing new challenges, so make sure you have an environment that allows them to grow.
Hire Good Communicators
Engineers and coders need to have great communications skills. The best talent can organize thought patterns accurately and precisely when solving a problem, and that spills over into communications. If your coders cannot communicate clearly, their thought processes may match that same disorganized style. Learn how to select good communicators that belie intelligence out of your talent pool.
Go With Efficiency
A great engineer can get high-quality work done faster than average engineers. Hiring one fantastic tech person for $100,000 per year is less expensive than bringing in five people at $50,000 each to get the same job done in the same amount of time. It's much more efficient to get top tech talent as soon as possible rather than later in the product development process.
Finding the perfect tech talent isn't easy when you think about normal hiring practices. When it comes to IT and product development, you cannot afford to drop the ball when it comes to an engineering team that works well together. That's why you need to get it right the first time.
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