Introducing: IT Scout
A lean Continuous Deployment, Testing and Integration Pipeline using CoreOS/Docker/Jenkins
January 18, 2018
Hiring software developers can be a hard & frustrating process if you don’t have the right tools. Experience, technical knowledge, and a pool of candidates may not be enough.
It’s a well-known fact that the technology industry does not have enough skilled people to satisfy its current demand. This can make it difficult for companies to catch a developer’s interest.
After 10+ years of recruiting great talent for our own Tech Team, we have developed a dynamic hiring process that is continuously improved to make it more efficient. We tweak it based on experiences with each candidate.
After achieving amazing results ourselves, we realized we could offer this knowledge to the world. Enter IT Scout: our own headhunting & recruiting agency, created with the sole purpose of helping companies connect the best candidates for their Tech Teams.
Our process is aimed at helping our clients fill their vacancies with the ideal candidates fast and painlessly. Here’s how we make it happen:
Discovery
We start with the hiring company. Understanding the client’s needs is an essential part of the process; specifically, in terms of profiles, qualifications, cultural fit, compensation, and all the small things that really make a difference. In the end, we know the devil is in the details.
Sourcing
Identifying candidates with the required skills for the position, in that exact moment when they are considering a change in their careers, either actively or passively. How can we know this? Well, since we are tech nerds, we’ve developed some ad-hoc tools that help us in our search =)
Video Screening
We make sure the candidates are experienced for the role, evaluate communication skills, and understand expectations and motivations. Soft skills are a must nowadays and we take that into account during this stage. Again, since we are a software company, we speak the same language as them, understand what the different technologies are, and know exactly how to connect with them. Candidates are clients for us as well, and we want them to find the opportunity they are looking for.
Technical Assessment
It’s coding time! If the video screening went well, the next step is to have them write some code and solve a few challenges. We also take a look at repositories and evaluate the quality of the code to find out if they have the best practices in their day-to-day coding.
Client Presentation
Once a candidate goes through each of these stages successfully, they become a potential match and the time to meet each other has come. We schedule a call for both candidate and client to start the company’s hiring process.
Job Offer
This is self-explanatory right? Don’t worry, we are still here for both the company and the candidate to make this as smooth as possible.
Does this seem like a pretty long ride? We know! That’s why we do the work for you. It takes countless hours of effort if you are not an expert in the field. But, thanks to our experience and years of doing this over and over for IT Crowd, we’ve learned how to execute this process in the most efficient and effective way.
You won’t need to worry about getting a thousand CVs from a database and wasting a lot of time in choosing the ones that might fit you. As a boutique agency, our job is to find candidates whose profiles and experience are relevant for the position, get to know them, test them, and move forward only with those interested and up to it. We are keen on not wasting valuable time of our clients and candidates.
Time is money and it’s better to invest it on your core business. So, if your Tech Team is growing and you need a helping hand from an expert, don’t hesitate to reach out. Did we catch your attention? Do you need some pointers? We’ll be happy to jump on a call and find the best way to guide and help you.
