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Recruiting mistakes cost companies 15 times the salary of an ineffective employee.
Who, by Geoff Smart and Randy Street.
To avoid such hiring mistakes, HR managers have to overcome a lot of non-obvious difficulties while searching for the right candidate:
- During the search, vacancy requirements can change forcing the process to restart from the very beginning;
- The hiring of the prospect specialist is delayed due to a large number of interview stages;
- Often HR managers have to look for the candidates on the market that are “burned through” by other recruiters who did not provide any feedback making workers skeptical about the successful hire.
“Every time I hear about the problems with finding a developer, I recall the above-mentioned statement by the gurus of recruiting,“
– Nick Kuropatkin, the Senior Software Developer and Staffing Supervisor of RealHub, describes the challenges of hiring a successful candidate for the job.
“I completely agree with this opinion, because I understand how substantial these difficulties could be. I am an experienced team lead responsible for finding the right candidates to expand my development teams. I also have a technical background and extensive software development experience. I know well what professional skills are required of technical candidates. Based on my practical knowledge, I have come to the following conclusions:
People from the HR department often are not competent about the issues of technology or technology stack for a particular project. I have observed this fact many times during my over-decade-long IT career. In many companies, HR staff lacks the understanding of qualities required for the technical candidates. Such incompetence leads to hiring the wrong people for the project. Another problem I saw was hiring people with poor communication skills not being able to work as a part of the team;
As professional developers, we, at RealHub, can help companies find experts capable of working with the project’s technology stack and being good team players as well. We search for candidates that put aside their ambitions, contribute to a friendly atmosphere on the project, and have a clear understanding of their roles”.
Key aspects of our technical job interview
The main factors that we evaluate during the search process are the following qualities of the candidate:
- Expertise
- Previous tasks and responsibilities
- Previous position
- Desire to work with program architecture
- Ability to do research work
- Attention and interest to project details
Every project task should be fitted with an expert capable of handling it. Some positions require research skills to define the right architecture, right algorithms for solving specific problems. Some projects need a person who can quickly deliver workable solutions on a short notice basis. Some projects require a person who can negotiate and communicate well with a team. Qualities that we look for in a new candidate are very dependant on the particular project goals and the existing project team.
Experience is the key to project success
The background of the candidate plays one of the most important roles in the selection process. Some developers offer very extensive experience with a particular technology as they work with the same programming language all their lives. Narrowly focused specialists interested in just one technical approach can be considered an asset to a project or a weakness, depending on the technology requirements.
When looking for software development specialists, we take into consideration how many programming languages the candidate tried and learned. We ask what software development technologies and methodologies he or she applied. We attempt to find out if the candidate wrote any libraries for the current project or the future apps in C++ or another programming language. We pay a lot of attention if the specialist we assess is engaged in professional self-development.
The modern world is very dynamic, it changes extremely fast. That is why nowadays candidates are not required to master a given methodology or technique exhaustively. Certainly, it can prove to be beneficial for the candidate to know one programming language in-depth. But in the majority of cases, the developer can quickly learn the most fitting technology for the fulfillment of the set task. Real professionals can quickly fill the gaps in their knowledge base during the development process.
That is why knowing the technology perfectly is not always required of the programmers. Such depositories as GitHub and StackOverflow can offer a solution to a current need, as most of the tasks have already been addressed by other developers and solutions have been found and shared. Another way to solve a larger problem is to divide it into several smaller ones and solve each of them separately, gradually working towards resolving the big issue.
How will RealHub support you?
RealHub seeks to establish effective relationships and cooperation between the customer and developers. We do this by assigning a customer success manager who ensures best practices are being followed both technically and process-wise.
Financial and legal supervision
Your remote team at RealHub is your staff under our umbrella of financial, legal, and administrative management support.
Fully managed development
You can focus on the tasks crucial for your business and leave day-to-day software development management tasks to us. We also take care of building effective and secure communication with your dedicated team.
Any technology stack
You are not limited to the technologies your personnel already implements. You can choose the stack that will bring you the most value at the moment.
Flexible contracts
You don’t have to worry about keeping your team busy. You pay only for the work done. Depending on the nature of your business, you can choose the contracting model most appropriate at the moment.
Full-service recruiting of software developers
We recruit your dev team and after they are hired, we take care of all the logistics, admin, and HR staff. We manage payroll and benefits, office, equipment, off-site events, business trips, and keep the fridge stocked with frosty beverages. We also handle all the red tape and legal hoops to keep you compliant and your IP safe.
We take all this stuff off your hands so that you can focus on building your company.
Benefits for project parties
Each client expects to receive a solution to his emergent business problem – within a certain time and, most often, operating on a limited budget. Therefore, each customer expects that the solution to the problem will be delivered within the planned period and designated budget.
Benefits for the client:
- Expert staff. Customers who turn to Ukrainian teams for software development can find excellent specialists that are ready to complete a given task within the required time frame.
- Quality development on a budget. In Ukraine, customers can hire a qualified development team on an economic budget that won’t exhaust their salary fund.
- Employees for shorter projects. In Ukraine, developers are used to working on projects that last for a year or two. That is why they are more likely to take a position in a small American project in comparison to the US developer, who worked at Google, Apple, Amazon, or a similar company for many years …
- Extensive experience. The customer most often looks for the worker’s expertise. In Ukraine, developers after 5-6 years of work history get broad professional experience gained while working for 3-4 different companies. In the American job market, developers work for 5-6 years in one company. As result, our programmers have more expertise in different areas of software development.
Benefits for the developer:
- Salary. A developer who works for a company with foreign partners receives a higher salary than workers in similar positions in Ukrainian companies.
- Team communication. Developing a project requires teamwork. The role that each member fulfills is very important for the overall success of the project. Effective communication allows the team to combine many individual efforts into the pull of achieved tasks moving whole projects towards conclusion faster.
- Technology stack. Most software engineers are looking for opportunities to apply a new technology stack on the project, as they strive for continuous professional development and self-improvement. Such tendency is very characteristic of the IT sphere, which is very dynamic and requires the knowledge of new technologies and ever-changing libraries. If an IT specialist neglects the process of self-education for six months, he loses qualification and subsequently job-market value.
- Remote work. Due to the global tendencies to switch to remote work or work from a home office, office positions become less relevant to the current situation.
High-quality education
Ukraine is well-known worldwide for the solid technical university background of its engineers and a high number of workers with college and university degrees. The country has a long history of a quality STEM education and a well-deserved reputation of high technical expertise of college and university graduates.
Mentality
We understand well our partners globally as we share similar work ethics and business values. The atmosphere of creativity, openness, and support that we foster at RealHub, makes communication with the team easy and fun.
Language trainings
We ensure the proper level of spoken English of our team, together with the appropriate level of written English for the technical documentation accompanying the product development process and business communication with our counterparts through emails and messengers.
Timely response
All our team members are very “time and schedule” aware and are used to work according to various time zones’ timetables. We can plan the right time for the meetings, conference calls, and sprint demos, choosing the most convenient hours for both the client and the technical team.
Easy travel
Direct flights, no visa requirements to enter Ukraine, short travel time – all these factors provide our clients and customers with a valuable opportunity for face-to-face meetings with the RealHub team located in Kyiv.
Human resources service
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You send us a job description
Give us some info on your company and the positions you need to be filled. Tell us exactly whom you want.
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We source candidates
We apply our secret sauce to our database of devs and voilà – our recruiters will provide you with a shortlist of candidates you want to interview.
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You interview
We facilitate the selection process in any way you like. We can apply the processes your company uses for its U.S. staff to your candidates in Ukraine.
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We hire and onboard
When you’ve found the right dev, just give us the green light, and soon he will be sitting in a beanbag chair contentedly coding away.