How to recruit excellent tech talent

Webinar topic
How to hire excellent talent
Speaker
Nick Day

Who am I?
Nick Day
Managing Director, JGA Payroll Recruitment, UK
A Payroll & HR Recruitment Leader with a 13+ year
track record of providing Payroll & HR talent to UK
FTSE & SME clients.

Recruiting the right talent
The biggest challenge that businesses are facing and will continue
facing for the foreseeable future
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There’s a global talent and skill shortage
● 46% of employers claim to have difficulties filling job vacancies
● 25% employers say that a lack of applicants is the main reason for this
● 20% employers are paying higher salary packages to hire good talent
5Know more about HackerEarth’s Talent Assessment Software

Reasons for shortage of quality talent
● Shortage of applicants
● Lack of required experience
● Lack of technical competencies
● Very high salary expectations
● Poor soft skills

So, how do you hire excellent talent with these limitations?

Developing a proactive recruitment process
Passive search and candidate mapping techniques
Measuring the correct metrics
Benefits of a bespoke candidate engagement strategy
How to attract the top 15% of talent
Maximising recruitment ROI
Agenda for the webinar

Developing a Proactive Recruitment Process

Only 1 in 18 employees list
themselves on a job board

You need a 24/7/365 inbound candidate engagement
and attraction strategy

The average person checks their phone 85 times per day.
The average person spends 5 hours a day browsing & using apps.
This is twice as much as people realise!
80% of these users are influenced by user generated content.

89% of job seekers are likely to use a mobile device to find work in the next year
1 billion job searches are performed on mobile devices each month
Know more about HackerEarth’s Talent Assessment Software

94% of recruiters now use (or plan to use) social media to help their recruitment efforts
66.7% of first time job seekers use social media to look for work
Social network usage continues to grow year-over-year
Recruiters who do not adapt will be left behind

• Right person?
• Right role?
• Right time?
• Right price?
• Left tenure?
4 recruitment rights to avoid a left

The overall time it takes to hire
The cost of hiring
Value the hire adds to the business (post-placement)
Increasing market share or reducing the strength of a competitor (by hiring their talent)
Retention rates (how long the new hire stays with the company)

Benefits of a bespoke candidate
engagement strategy

Consider overhauling existing talent acquisition strategies.
Provider career development, autonomy, mastery & purpose.
Develop your employer branding and differentiate your business from the masses
Get social!
Invest in employee perks, compensation & benefits (retention).

83% Of Recruiters And Talent Leaders Believe Employer
Branding Has A Significant Impact On Their Ability To Hire.

Focus on passive talent
Employee branding
Inbound applications
Use an expert
Be patient
Use one provider

Locating talent isn’t difficult if you have the right skills and tools at your disposal.
However, recruiting the best talent or the top 15% is significantly more challenging.
Evaluate and shortlist only the top 15% of talent

1. Develop a shortlist of potentially brilliant candidates
2. Follow a consistent step-by-step process
3. Screen talent with intelligent questioning to measure and evaluate.
These can include:
- Competency based questions
- Technical based questions
- Programming questions
- Multiple choice questions
- Subjective questions
- Frontend design questions.
- Technical / skills based testing
How do you do that?

How HackerEarth helps you screen
programmers
Technical jobs are the hardest to fill
According to a report by Careercast, 3 out of 10 of the hardest jobs to fill, are technical jobs

You have a candidate pool of tens, hundreds or even
thousands of programmers.
How do you shortlist the best developers based on
your requirements?

Use HackerEarth Recruit to grade
applicants using online coding tests

With HackerEarth Recruit, you can create online coding tests to grade and shortlist the best
developers from your list.
Here’s why it is used by 4,000+ companies like Amazon, Apple, Walmart Labs and Bosch.
● Pre-Built Question Library with 20,000+ programming questions
● Automated Code Evaluation based on pre-defined parameters
● 32+ Programming Languages like JAVA, Python, PHP, SQL, C++, C#, Ruby and JS
● Detailed Test Reports for each candidate’s performance
● Plagiarism Detector to avoid and detect malpractices
● Custom Question Library for complete control over questions

● Remotely conduct detailed tests & increase your radius of hiring
● Reduce assessment period from weeks to hours
● Create tests for any tech role without any SME (subject matter expert) help
● Drastically reduce manpower required to conduct assessments
● Remove human error/bias from screening process
How this helps you

● Focus on attracting the top 15% of talent.
● Access the overall talent pool (not just the 1 in 18).
● Avoid processes that reward speed over quality.
● Invest in employer branding.
● Invest time in effective qualification and evaluation tools to develop best candidate shortlists.
● Develop a world-class on-boarding process.
● Focus on retention to realise added value

Identify the best programmers from your talent pipeline
hackerearth.com/recruit
Thank you!

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