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Hiring engineers in a candidate-driven marketplace

Darragh O'Riordan on January 16, 2022

I’m writing this at the start of 2022 and it’s never been tougher to hire engineers. There is a very strong candidate market in software engineerin...
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Darragh, I wonder where you go to find candidates and what are the filters / criteria you use during your initial search.

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Darragh O'Riordan

Hey I've tried a bunch of technology-specific locations online like forums and chats but usually get spammy responses from consulting companies. So now it's mostly linkedin to be honest - both ads and targeting. Had great success with local organisations connecting students with industry also.

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Darragh O'Riordan

And filters are role dependent but mostly targeting demonstrated growth, learning. Would expect senior folks to have good skills of course