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| Simon:
Yes finding people is hard. I was in a way lucky to end up here as things came together at the same time with frustrations at my last job the availability of engineers and the uniqueness of this place or at least it's perfect fit for me and me for them. |
| tszaboo:
You have to decide on the job title. Make a job description, task list, requirement list. Even if you are self taught, it doesn't mean that you want to hire someone who is. Because you will be essentially responsible for the hiring process, and the candidate who you select. Then you can go ahead and outsource the searching, or have internal HR do it. I really suggest a pre-selection done by someone else, because I would rather pass on 5 good candidates due to HR idiocy, than interview 100 candidates myself. |
| Simon:
That was the point of this thread, to brainstorm on the sort of person we can expect to find so that we can come up with that spec. We don't really have a HR department as we are small. My boss and myself will be the first to see CV's. These may come via a recruiter but they use a decent recruiter that does the sifting for you and seems to be good at matching people to the company. I'm not expecting to hire a self taught person and officially I'm not self taught. I am self taught despite 3 years of college in Italy and nearly 2 years of UK university that have been so atrocious that all they mean to me is 3 letters I can use to impress. I'm not saying that all education is garbage, I've just been unlucky with the only UK university that does distance qualifications. However any amount of qualification does not "make" you smart or mean that you now know it all. Engineering is about as much learning more stuff as producing new solutions. If you don't have a personal interest in you field you are unlikely to be good. |
| Ed.Kloonk:
One thing I'd be wary of who the recruiter is prolly more important that your ideal candidate. I mean, often in the field when you don't need customer facing, someone on the spectrum can fill the shoes nicely. However, the recruitment firms tend to hire young women who (sorry, not sorry) tend to misinterpret spectrum for rudeness and disregard the candidate. Seen it happen. To be fair though, it think the awareness has increased and is perhaps less likely to happen. |
| dietert1:
Are you married? And she wants to be No 2? You may have to change your attitude to find somebody who makes a difference. Nowadays we try to build a team. The person should be similar to you and you won't stay No 1 because you arrived first. Regards, Dieter |
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