Edward Jordan Workshop :: IT Recruitment Method

    Today I was at the Edward Jordan workshop. First of all I want to thank you for this opportunity kotyrev Sergei Kotyreva.

    The topic of the seminar was “The Human Factor in Software Development”.

    I will tell you about one interesting ambiguous method for recruiting personnel in IT. I will also share my feelings received after the seminar.

    So about the method:

    Yordon proposed (according to him personally tested and successful) one of the methods for selecting high-quality personnel in IT. The essence of the methodology was that prior to the interview candidates were offered to demonstrate their skills and experience in the office of the company. Those. they explained to the person that when he came for an interview, he would have to make a small presentation about himself, his skills, and his last works (it is important enough that the narrator speaks specifically about the last works).
    The most important point was that the presentation was appreciated not only by colleagues from the human resources department, but also directly by the team members who had to work with them. After (and in some cases during) the presentation, they rendered a verdict.
    What are the pros:
    • team participation, a very important moment in the process of forming a project team;
    • saving (talking about calendar days) time by reducing the number of interviews (for the opposite example: according to Romuald Zdebsky he had to go through as many as 7 interviews and 3 tests before he got a job at Microsoft);
    • the experience of each observer in the aggregate gave a more objective picture


    But I was a little surprised that after a coffee break, when asked about staff shortages in the states, Edward Yordon explained that they had no such problems. Then it became completely clear to me that this approach to the selection of personnel is most effective only when there is an abundance / excess of personnel in the IT market, or only in large very companies like Google. I want to immediately make a reservation that this is only my personal understanding of this approach.
    Next, I propose to discuss it all together.

    As a result of the seminar, I still have an ambiguous feeling. I realized that I had a lot of knowledge, it was necessary to grow before others (it pleases me), others lead to deeper thoughts and careful steps for scaling, taking into account our geographical identities, views and other features. There was a lot of information, and no matter how I wanted to share it with the others now, my strength is not enough to describe all 120 slides with explanations of the author himself)

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