Managing talent is not only about recruiting new people, it is about the whole process starting with the necessity of a new employee, followed by its search, recruitment, consolidation in the company and the eventual contract finalization.

Hiring process

Preparation

• Know the company moment and know if it really needs new talent for developing new projects or might miss the opportunity of additional income. Maybe we can use an external resource to materialize a small component.
• Define properly the role description for the position. We need to be inclusive because men apply if they have 40% of the required competences, women a 80%.
• Properly define the culture and the product in a few words
• Transmit company culture during the whole process
• Use services such workable to keep tracking of all the candidates
• Show internal talent and demonstrate we used technologies we ask for. Giveaway marketing, technical blog, open source code, coworkers professional branding.
• Keep an active recruiting through social networks, generate interest for the company.
• Have an open space where all the job positions are offered, as it would be a marketplace. We need to keep track of it.
• Find a way to stand out from the competence.
• Emotional salary: career plan, remote work, bonus, team building, etc
• Define responsibilities of each of the interviewer of the whole process.
• Keep a director figure between candidate and company. This figure needs to know the necessities of the position.
• Technologies that are used have to ease the curve of integration of the person in the team.