1. Hiring the Right Way in the
WordPress Ecosystem
@rahul286

2. Hiring - Basics !

3. How many people work
for you? 🤔

4. How many people work
with you? 🤔

7. How to find superheroes! 🕵

9. Hiring in WordPress 🌐

10. Typical Hiring Process

11. Get Applications
Screening
Interview
Offer

12. 1. Get Applications

13. • Blog/Career site
• make.wp.org
• WordCamps
• wp.org slack
• Social Media
• Forums
Checklist

14. 2. Screening

15. The Unlucky Ones! 🤭

16. • Core Contributions
• Online Presence
• Blog, Portfolio site
• WordPress.org, Github, StackOverflow
• Social Media
• Quality of previous work/assignments
Checklist

17. 3. Interview

18. • Be Nice. You are not doing a favor to them
• Respect. It costs them time and money too
• Offer language choices (if possible)
• Leave good memories
• Rescheduling is ok
• Give them a glass of water
Checklist

19. 4. Offer

21. Reject with respect 🙏

22. Summarize

23. Get Applications - Reach Out
Screening - Real Work
Interview - Be Nice
Offer - Respect

24. Takeaway 🚚

25. You are NOT doing any
favor by hiring!

26. We are hiring! 🤗
rt.camp/join

27. Thanks!
@rahul286
rahul@rtcamp.com