This document discusses recruiters and how to find developers from the perspective of both recruiters and developers. It outlines that external recruiters work for agencies and are focused on placing developers to earn fees, while in-house recruiters focus more on volume of applicants. The document suggests responsible in-house recruiters could help with onboarding, offboarding, and diversity in the applicant pipeline.

1. Recruiting, Recruiter, and
how to find Developers
Learn about all sides of the table,
and how to solve this problem

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3. About me
Daniel Fahlke (aka Flyingmana)
● Working as a Software Engineer with Magento and PHP
● Doing lots of open Source
● For over 7 Years now
● http://flyingmana.name/
● https://github.com/Flyingmana
● https://twitter.com/Flyingmana
● https://www.patreon.com/Flyingmana
● https://www.openhub.net/accounts/flyingmana

4. Why Iam here today, Part 1

5. I got this on LinkedIn

6. As a Developer I see:
● I get 1 to 2 offers per month
● Often for Java
○ even as I have no references saying, I have experience there
● I got offers, which contained a move to Berlin
● I even got offers for the Company who just asked me to leave
○ Via targeted Ads in this case
○ I will explain later, why this has a very bad effekt

7. As a Developer I think:
● They
○ write this offers to hundreds of Devs
○ dont even try to read the CV
● Therefore
○ The offered companies are to big
○ Have a bad reputation
○ I probably wouldn’t like it there
● And I dont even look for a NEW job

8. Personal Experience
● My first technical Interview was with an Recruter from an agency
● Some years and jobs later, I had again contact to one
○ Had okayish offers
○ Provided informations about the company
○ Helped with preparation for the interview
○ No annoying worrying about the salery

9. Why do recruters write so many, and often

10. When is a Developer actually searching

11. ● The default type
● Work as agencies
● Have usually a bigger number of Companies to work for
● Are interested to find a good fit because
○ Payment is bound to the Dev, beeing there 1year (still valid?)
○ Less arguing with the company about money
■ In case they want to fire you before the year is finished
● Less worrying about a fair salery
The Types of Recruiter: External

12. ● Maintain jobAds on a lot of different plattforms
● Do the organisatorical work related to Interviews
● Are measured by number of signed contracts
● Typical for big companies
○ Facebook
○ ResearchGate
○ Google
● Optimize mostly for a big number of applicants
The Types of Recruiter: Inhouse

13. ● Cares still about you, after you signed the contract
● Improves the OnBoarding practices
● Trys to reduce the number of OffBoardings
○ And helps to end them with a positive impression
● I did start to late to search for examples
The Types of Recruiter: Responsible Inhouse

14. Recruter(agencies) help with the diversity problem
● Do you?
● They find the places, who accept diverse candidates

15. Recruter(agencies) help with the pipeline problem
● Do you?
● They find the places for juniors
● They work together with coding schools and similar

16. I need to start earlier with writing the Presentation