Technology has started eating the world already and that has made talent hunt competition more fiercer. By the end of 2020, the growth in IT would be doubled. We meet a lot of tech recruiters everyday and love listening to them, each one of them are different and have different stories. Tech recruiting is frustrating at times. Here are some quotes which will motivate you:
“The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.“ -Marc Benioff, Salesforce CEO
“Make your team feel respected, empowered and genuinely excited about the company’s mission.” - Tim Westergren, co-founder of Pandora
“Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.” - Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux
“If you can hire people whose passion intersects with the job, they won’t require any supervision at all. They will manage themselves better than anyone could ever manage them. Their fire comes from within, not from without. Their motivation is internal, not external.” - Stephen Covey, American Author and Keynote Speaker
“Recruiting talent is no different than any other challenge a startup faces. It’s all about selling.” - Vivek Wadhwa, Technology Entrepreneur and Academic
“Make something people want” includes making a company that people want to work for.” – Sahil Lavingia, founder of Gumroad
“The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Companies that give extra flexibility to their employees will have the edge in this area.” - Bill Gates, Former CEO of Microsoft
“Competing for tech talent never gets easier, nor is it a perfect mathematical equation. Instead it’s about understanding your market, knowing what your current and prospective employees are looking for, and doing your best to create the environment that attracts the right workers to your company.” - Stacey Carroll, Principal Consultant at Payscale
“Time spent on hiring is time well spent.” – Robert Half, Human Resources Consulting Firm
“Great vision without great people is irrelevant.” - Jim Collins, Author of Good to Great
“I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.” – Lawrence Bossidy, Former CEO of Honeywell
"Tech companies have a finite lifespan: For the successful ones, an IPO or exit is never more than a few years off. But by recruiting locally and developing homegrown talent, companies can build something that remains after they’re gone. People, skills and a culture of innovation persist.” - Ryan Holmes, CEO of Hootsuite
“You need to have a collaborative hiring process.” – Steve Jobs, Co-Founder of Apple
“Two of the biggest challenges in technical hiring are identifying people who are smart but don’t get things done and people who get things done but aren’t smart. A company in a competitive industry needs to avoid hiring both classes of people.” – Joel Spolsky, CEO of Stack Overflow
“Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he’s hired to do.” – Malcolm Forbes, Publisher of Forbes magazine
Co-founder and Chief Customer Officer at DoSelect, my primary focus is on building awareness about DoSelect's dent across the tech recruitment sphere among prospective clients, while also developing and maintaining relationships with current and past customers. Hailing from NIT Jamshedpur, I believe in the philosophy of innovation driven by execution in my work.
