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How to Find and Grow Your Own
DevOps Talent Pool
Paul Speers
@Paul_Speers
www.speerhead.dk
Tech Entrepreneur & Start Up Junkie
Hired over 2000 People
Created over £50m shareholder value.
I’ve been a Dev and an Op
Mark Andreessen & Opsware
Founded Speerhead to help Open Source
Vendors expand in Europe
International Offices.
Pleasure to be here today.
I Love
Creating
Businesses
and
developing
people
The European DevOps Market
• Candidate driven market
• Contract Roles increasing month on month
• Salaries rising
• Zero unemployment
• Not enough experience & talent
• Traditional Ads & job boards have high failure rate
DevOps people…
Corporates and the hiring challenges
Lack of understanding and Job Specs are sparse and
unconvincing
The HR process is out of date and not suitable
They are interviewed TOO! Hiring is Selling!
Where are the Change Wizards & Mentors from the
Company?
Traditional Approaches – Don’t Work!
• Top people always working
• Hopeless Spamming on LinkedIn
- Bad Emails just create noise…..
- On average DevOps folk are being ‘hit’ twice a day
- Moving away off LinkedIn
- Poor Job Specs a killer for DevOps folk
• ‘Spray and Prey’ approach is having an effect on the
community
• Job boards response - Really! Honestly - DevOps!
Candidate: Hiring Manager:
Career Prospects Hire the Rockstar
Cool Organisation Project deadlines
Great people Budgets
Good Projects New Skills
Cool Tools
Salary Rise
HR:
Cultural Fit
Risk
Skills/Competency
Budgets
Timescales
Recruiter:
Salary Increase =
More fees
Excite the
Candidate
Place 4 times a
year.
Relationship – BTW!
DevOps Hiring Silos
Build a Culture of Engagement
• Who cares about my development?
• Do I get to do what I love every day?
• Can I do what I do best - everyday?
Culture
• Corps find your magic people in the company
- Who will enthral and excite the candidate ?
- Could it be the CTO/CIO
- Who will buddy the short list?
- The new language of Open Source & DevOps
- How will you Woo the candidate
- Job Spec and Company Website just don’t do it
I’m afraid!
- Over Communicate in the process
Some things we do to Help…
• Networked and Profiled over 15,000 DevOps folk
• Create & Manage Virtual Talent pools for Vendors
• All profiles with personality & soft skills
….and finally Grow your Own
Takes four talented development grads,
geeks…..cool IT folk needing a career path….
Imagine a Service that…..
….Add a 100Kg of willing Corporations or IT
Company's….
….Stir in to mix ….. 6 months of Training…..on
and off the job.
Mentorship, Soft skills, Process, Tooling Training
Take out the oven after 6 months and let them loose……
Our DevOps Academy – Needs you
Creating the syllabus
Placement Mentoring
Launching 2015…

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Grow Your Own DevOps CoDepCPH

  • 1. How to Find and Grow Your Own DevOps Talent Pool
  • 2. Paul Speers @Paul_Speers www.speerhead.dk Tech Entrepreneur & Start Up Junkie Hired over 2000 People Created over £50m shareholder value. I’ve been a Dev and an Op Mark Andreessen & Opsware Founded Speerhead to help Open Source Vendors expand in Europe International Offices. Pleasure to be here today. I Love Creating Businesses and developing people
  • 3.
  • 4. The European DevOps Market • Candidate driven market • Contract Roles increasing month on month • Salaries rising • Zero unemployment • Not enough experience & talent • Traditional Ads & job boards have high failure rate
  • 6.
  • 7.
  • 8.
  • 9. Corporates and the hiring challenges Lack of understanding and Job Specs are sparse and unconvincing The HR process is out of date and not suitable They are interviewed TOO! Hiring is Selling! Where are the Change Wizards & Mentors from the Company?
  • 10. Traditional Approaches – Don’t Work! • Top people always working • Hopeless Spamming on LinkedIn - Bad Emails just create noise….. - On average DevOps folk are being ‘hit’ twice a day - Moving away off LinkedIn - Poor Job Specs a killer for DevOps folk • ‘Spray and Prey’ approach is having an effect on the community • Job boards response - Really! Honestly - DevOps!
  • 11. Candidate: Hiring Manager: Career Prospects Hire the Rockstar Cool Organisation Project deadlines Great people Budgets Good Projects New Skills Cool Tools Salary Rise HR: Cultural Fit Risk Skills/Competency Budgets Timescales Recruiter: Salary Increase = More fees Excite the Candidate Place 4 times a year. Relationship – BTW! DevOps Hiring Silos
  • 12. Build a Culture of Engagement • Who cares about my development? • Do I get to do what I love every day? • Can I do what I do best - everyday?
  • 13. Culture • Corps find your magic people in the company - Who will enthral and excite the candidate ? - Could it be the CTO/CIO - Who will buddy the short list? - The new language of Open Source & DevOps - How will you Woo the candidate - Job Spec and Company Website just don’t do it I’m afraid! - Over Communicate in the process
  • 14. Some things we do to Help… • Networked and Profiled over 15,000 DevOps folk • Create & Manage Virtual Talent pools for Vendors • All profiles with personality & soft skills
  • 15.
  • 17. Takes four talented development grads, geeks…..cool IT folk needing a career path…. Imagine a Service that…..
  • 18. ….Add a 100Kg of willing Corporations or IT Company's….
  • 19. ….Stir in to mix ….. 6 months of Training…..on and off the job. Mentorship, Soft skills, Process, Tooling Training Take out the oven after 6 months and let them loose……
  • 20. Our DevOps Academy – Needs you Creating the syllabus Placement Mentoring Launching 2015…