[LRUG] Where would you look for a job or next hire?

[Sam Joseph]

I like the policy, however the very last line in the terms & fees 
doesn't seem to scan grammatically ...

"If the candidate leaves within 12 working weeks of the introduction 
(for any reason, including dismissal), you will refund was 8.3% for each 
week the candidate "

or am I just being dense ...?

CHEERS> SAM

On 24/05/2013 09:32, Adrian Sevitz wrote:
> Jobs boards have mostly failed us. I've used 
> http://www.authenticjobs.com a few times as it doesn't make me feel 
> dirty. I throw things on Gumtree because it's cheap (and gets picked 
> up by sites like http://www.adzuna.co.uk) but I've found jobs boards 
> really don't work.
>
> Ditto to what everyone has said about US centric boards (stack 
> overflow, github, 37 signals etcs)
>
> Also if you're going to use recruiters, don't bother with jobs boards 
> as they are on them anyway. Save your money.
>
> The big problem with boards is the market is fractured. People might 
> check 3 or 4 boards. But there are 30 you can post too. So you can 
> spend a lot of money and go no where. We've landed up using agencies.
>
> Which whilst frustrating, has yielded some success. Although that said 
> we've only made one pure ruby hire through agencies. Our other two 
> ruby dev's came to us organically. DevOps we recurited through agency 
> as well as front end, flash, and h5.
>
> Agency does take more time in some ways as you have to field a lot of 
> calls. And a lot of lies. I don't think the realise I sit next to the 
> person who answers calls. So I know what lies they give to get through 
> to me. That said they're not all bad.
>
> This is quite good time as I put our NTR (note to recruiters) public 
> today.
>
> https://github.com/vzaar/note-to-recruiters/blob/master/ntr.md
>
> We're open sourcing it and are quite happy to have anyone use it. 
> Hopefully other we can draw in some more people to improve it and it 
> can work well for lots of other people. If you're going to work with 
> agencies, having a decent streamlined process can work.
>
> Since I don't want to get sued for libel, there's no public black list 
> of bad agencies (although we have an internal one). But I thought we 
> could white list good agencies and recommendations. And if a good 
> agency turns bad they can be removed from the list (no libel for removal).
>
> So if others feel this is useful, please use it. And if you have 
> ideas, please get in touch (here on github or direct).
>
> Sev
>
>
>
>
> On 23 May 2013, at 20:45, chat-request at lists.lrug.org 
> <mailto:chat-request at lists.lrug.org> wrote:
>
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 19:03:33 +0100
>> From: Thayer Prime <thayer at team-prime.com <mailto:thayer at team-prime.com>>
>> To: London Ruby Users Group <chat at lists.lrug.org 
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>> tl;dr > What jobs board do you use (or would you if you had to..) look
>> for a new job? / Have you successfully used any boards to hire ruby
>> devs?
>>
>> Longer > Normally I source folks from my personal/professional network
>> for teams we build for clients, but in the last year and future
>> facing, demand has out striped what that can supply in a timely
>> fashion, and I'm starting to *consider* advertising. I'm very wary of
>> it though, my personal ethos is the best folks come from
>> recommendations and head hunts. But hey, I'm up for giving it a try.
>>
>> Also, if you've recruited yourself (as a direct company or agency) and
>> have any tips on which boards have good developers on, that'd be very
>> useful too.
>>
>> I was thinking of starting with GitHub and StackOverflow. I'll report
>> back on how I get on if anyone would find it useful.
>>
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>> Thayer Prime
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