Tag: Hiring
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oDesk hiring tip: ask for the cat
We’re expanding again, but this time the needs are either fairly specific and short-term or fairly generic and not requiring close team integration, so it’s a perfect window of opportunity for some remote outsourcing. I gave oDesk another try after a fairly disastrous earlier hiring attempt a year or two ago, and partly it’s because […]
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Code thieves and the people who hire them
I saw in the news that there’ve been two cases lately of programmers stealing source code on the way out the door from their employers, presumably to use at their next job. In both cases the code was for financial companies’ high-speed trading systems. Let’s acknowledge that high-speed trading systems are more complicated than, say, […]
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How to use Craigslist to hire effectively
So it looks like Scoble’s discovered the joys of hiring via Craigslist: the signal to noise ratio is off the charts bad. I don’t know if this is the first time he’s tried it, but judging from the helpful list of tips for job seekers, he probably went through the standard emotional ride: Step 1) […]
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An example of knowing your market when posting a job
Something I missed by only reading the Toronto RSS feed – entries on the Joel on Software Job Board display their Joel Test score.