How to recruit excellent tech talent

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Webinar topicHow to hire excellent talent

Speaker

Nick Day



Who am I?

Nick DayManaging 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

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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





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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

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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





Measuring the Correct Metrics



• 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.





Attract The Top 15% Of Talent



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





Maximising Recruitment ROI



● 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

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