In our Hiring Hacks webinar, Technical Recruiter/Sourcerer/Level 2 Super Genius, Steven Wood at Squarespace dives into different techniques that will make engineers interested in learning more about your company. Hear the full webinar recording here: bit.ly/1RtjKoQ

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How Squarespace Actively
Engages and Sources Engineers
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2. Today’s Moderators
Casey Marshall Lauren Maroevich

3. What is Hiring Hacks?
• The hiring hacks series is presented by Greenhouse
• Greenhouse is an end-to-end recruiting optimization
platform, helping companies get better at recruiting
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4. Hiring Hacks Series
• Each webinar in the series focuses on strategies and tools that helps
measurably improve the recruiting process and outcomes
• In this Hiring Hacks, Greenhouse partnered with HackerRank to discuss:
• How to write sourcing messages that attract engineers
• Best practices and channels to leverage when sleuthing the web
• How to use data to optimize your sourcing processes to get better and faster each time
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5. Source
passionate developers
with CodeSprints, an online
programming competition.
Screen
technical candidates
with engaging, auto-
scored CodeChallenges.
Interview
standout programmers
with CodePair, which
combines video chat with live
coding.
HackerRank: End-to-end tech hiring

6. Enhance recruiting by ensuring
engineering speaks to qualified
candidates
Recruit candidates that aren’t
obvious based on resume
Improve end-to-end tech
recruiting process and reduce
your time to hire
Keep top of funnel filled with
fresh, passionate talent from
HackerRank community
Why HackerRank works

7. Hiring Hacks Speaker
Steve Wood
Technical Recruiter
Steve’s recruiting career began as the best after-school job a high
schooler could dream of: sourcing for big software companies like
Oracle and SAP at a tiny agency. Following stints fixings iPhones at
the Apple Store and changing tires, his love of sleuthing drew him
back to recruiting at The McIntyre Group, a boutique staffing firm in
Connecticut, where he hired developers, project managers, and IT
people for hedge funds, investment banks, and small software
companies.
He then moved to the big city to leverage his creative sourcing tactics
at Google, where he also picked up an appreciation for smaller start-
up environments through conversations with candidates along the
way. Steve has been a Technical Recruiter/Sourcerer/Level 2 Super
Genius at Squarespace for the past two years, engaging engineering
talent for opportunities on their fast-growing team. His mastery of the
deep web is surpassed only by his passion for pizza
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8. Hiring Hacks with Steve Wood
• Candidate Discovery
• Messaging and reach out
• Better Phone Screens
• Tools
• Q&A
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9. IRC

11. IRC

12. Site for readers and book recommendations.
40 Million users.
43 million reviews.

14. ● Website
● Location
● Photo
● Friends
(more potential leads)
● Things they like

28. Engineering Blogs

32. ("steven wood" OR "steve wood" OR "stephen wood" OR
"steve woods" OR "stephen woods") AND (Java OR
JavaScript OR Python OR "software engineer" OR "software
developer" OR “computer science”)

33. Takeaways
• Engineers live all over the web – they built it
• Leverage your resources and use them appropriately
(there is such a thing as over personalization)
• Become a better technical recruiter through sourcing and research
• Find your niche
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34. The Recruiter Phone Screen
You should be knowledgeable about:
• Your company
• Teams you recruit for
• The interview process
• Culture
• Technology stack
• Why you like working at your company
You should learn more about stuff like:
• Development process
• How often is code pushed to production?
• Open source
• How is QA and testing done?
• How different teams work together
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35. The Recruiter Phone Screen
Ask them about:
• On an average day – what % of your time is spent
writing code?
• What technologies are you working with?
• How large is your team?
• Is your manager technical?
• What they know about your company
• Significant accomplishments - and what they’re
proud of
• What they like & dislike the most?
• What would they change?
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36. Tools
• Rapportive
• Right Inbox for Gmail
• MailTrack for Gmail
• Instapaper
• Greenhouse Gmail Integration & Greenhouse Prospecting
• Context Menu Search (Chrome extension)
• recruitin.net
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37. Q&A
Steve Wood
Technical Recruiter
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