Articles tagged “hiring”

• Faut-il embaucher un développeur inexpérimenté ? Lorsqu’on est at­ten­tif à ce qui se dit dans les com­mu­nautés comme les sites de Stack Ex­change, ou en­core par les lead­ers, tels que Joel Spolky, en matière de l’or­gan­i­sa­tion du tra­vail au sein des…
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• Programming made easy When I start­ed pro­gram­ming, a few peo­ple around me told me that this may not be the smartest ca­reer path, be­cause it may hap­pen that in a few decades, we won't need pro­gram­mers any longer. The idea is…
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• Relevance of tags on Careers Ca­reers pro­files in­cludes a list of tags the per­son is top 10%, top 20% and top 30% in. Sur­pris­ing­ly (maybe not), those tags are fol­lowed re­li­gious­ly by some re­cruiters. They make a big mis­take. If we want tags to be rel­e­vant, i.e. to have a…
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• Hiring process part 1 · job posting When I worked as a free­lancer, one of the tasks I did was to help com­pa­nies hir­ing tal­ent­ed peo­ple. Aside the case of Melusyn start­up, I was most­ly han­dling the tech­ni­cal in­ter­views with the can­di­dates, and gave my ad­vice to the com­pa­ny: this…
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• Hiring process part 2 · finding and capturing talented people It's dif­fi­cult to in­ter­view can­di­dates for a spe­cif­ic job. It's scary to hire some­body who shouldn't be hired, and it's un­for­tu­nate if you don't hire some­one who should be hired. While it's prac­ti­cal­ly im­pos­si­ble to sug­gest any­thing on the choice…
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• Hiring process part 3 · interview The can­di­date is in the hall, wait­ing for the in­ter­view. What should be your next steps? How to guide the can­di­date through the process of the in­ter­view? Prob­a­bly the worst thing a com­pa­ny can do is to have a per­son from hu­man re­sources in charge of…
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• Hiring process part 4 · after the interview In 2013, I was search­ing for a flat in Paris. For peo­ple who are not fa­mil­iar with this spe­cif­ic task of search­ing for a flat in this spe­cif­ic city, I should ex­plain that flats are huge­ly ex­pen­sive there, but there are still many per­sons who search…
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• Les non-talents Après avoir écrit la série d'ar­ti­cles sur la recherche des tal­ents, j'ai reçu de nom­breux com­men­taires et ques­tions de la part, no­tam­ment, des développeurs français. Pour beau­coup, je dois faire une pré­ci­sion : cette série d'ar­ti­cles par­lait des…
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• Dunning–Kruger effect Dun­ning–Kruger ef­fect con­sists for un­skilled per­sons to be­lieve that they are more ex­pe­ri­enced, and for high­ly skilled per­sons to un­der­es­ti­mate their lev­el, be­liev­ing that tasks, which they find easy,…
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• Interview questions I'm of­ten sur­prised by the low qual­i­ty of an­swers I get from the can­di­dates dur­ing in­ter­views. Tech­ni­cal ques­tions quick­ly show a deep mis­un­der­stand­ing of the ba­sic con­cepts, and I'm won­der­ing how could it be that a per­son who claims be­ing a…
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• Ratings in a CV Heard to­day a dis­cus­sion of two col­leagues about a pos­si­ble im­prove­ment of a CV by adding for every tech­nol­o­gy a rat­ing, show­ing the mas­tery lev­el of the per­son in this par­tic­u­lar tech­nol­o­gy. I'm sor­ry about those col­leagues. They have a deep…
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• The essential skills of a developer I was re­cent­ly ap­proached by a man­ag­er work­ing in a large (more than a thou­sand em­ploy­ees) com­pa­ny. Aside his man­age­ment job, he was also ac­tive­ly con­tribut­ing to the hir­ing in­ter­views. He have read the se­ries of ar­ti­cles I wrote on the sub­ject back…
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• The essential skills of a developer, and why don't we check them during an interview A few months ago, I de­scribed a frac­ture which ex­ists be­tween the skills con­sid­ered de­sir­able dur­ing an in­ter­view and the skills which are ac­tu­al­ly valu­able for an em­ploy­ee. I haven't ex­plained, how­ev­er, the rea­sons for this frac­ture. This is the…
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• Hiring process is inherently wrong Reg­u­lar­ly, man­agers ask me ques­tions about the hir­ing process. All of them com­plain about three things: They have a lot of bad can­di­dates—can­di­dates who clear­ly don't qual­i­fy for the job. They have few good can­di­dates. They of­ten hire per­sons who end…
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