Lead Dev 2016 London: How to succeed at hiring without really trying

• Melinda Seckington @mseckington
• slides: http://fr.slideshare.net/mseckington/how-to-succeed-at-hiring-without-really-trying

How do we expose our teams so that people want to work for us ? transparency instead of a black box?

Create a relationship between your company and customers. Make some “employee evangelism”: talk to events, write blog posts. Will bring new developpers to your company.

Make your users badasses.

How to show more with your team ?

• give them a compelling context. Start with culture first
  • be great: find something worth talking about
  • be authentic
  • be open (willing to share information and data)
• give them a compelling reason. What motivates your team ?
  • helping others
  • build confidence in communicating: become better speakers/writters
  • build personal reputation. (ex: people want to be an expert in a specific field)
  • -> understand your team’s motivations
• help them keep wanting to
  • what makes them stop ? There are always fears for sharing
  • what pulls them forward ? find progression paths
  • lead by example, share the fears you have (or had)
• help them actually get better
  • perpetual expose
    • start a library
    • “talks we love” (watch a video)
    • highlight existing content
  • deliberate practice. ex:
    • lightning talks (5 minutes about anything)
    • (weekly) learning hour: teach to the team something userfull (help to practice speaking in front a of small group)
    • conference clubs: prepare for talking in a conference
    • collaboration blog post (one paragraph written by someone in the team)
    • internal blog
    • pair on blog post (what is the story you want to tell ?)

Every team can and should do this.