Comments on: It's not them, it's you: Why new hires are so hard.

By: steve simon

steve simon — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:45:58 +0000

We used a head hunter from a large company–but never again, they were like a used car salesman, did not bring the candidate I wanted and cost me over $20,000 for a fee–I recommend do yourself.

Steve Simon

By: Trevor

Trevor — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:16:07 +0000

So you’d read the first line — and only the first line — of a job ad in order to decide whether it was right for you?

You’re not seeing the full ad here, Evan, it gets into the nitty-gritty of responsibilities and roles later. Every job ad should.

I’m sick of overproduced car ads too, but they got that way because the first few ads in that style broke through the clutter.

That ad, by the way, attracted over a dozen top-shelf candidates.

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lanphuong — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 02:06:46 +0000

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By: Evan Wired

Evan Wired — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:01:13 +0000

“Put your stamp on a sizzling product and company that isn’t simply leading its market, it’s shaping it.”

Sounds like the voiceover in an overproduced luxury car ad. I’d take one read at either version of that ad, think “these people don’t know what they want me to do” and move on.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:52:06 +0000

Dead on. I am a soon to be CS graduate (10 weeks) and have had my own ‘sit-downs’ with two startups in my area. Your script from the ‘blind date’ seems eerily similar – as if you has a mic in the rooms in which we met. To further degrade the encounter, since everyone involved knew my ‘newness’ out of school, not only were incredible demands laid out for me ahead of time, but I was pretty much told I would be paid in peanuts (and “experience”) in the same breath. Sorry, I know me being green merits less pay then a developer with experience, but I also did not go to 4 years of school to be paid $9/hr – yes, that is the real figure. Less then I would be paid to flip burgers and Micky-Ds (and without the free Big Macs)!
For lack of a better way to put it, I was amazed at the smugness that seemed inherent with going into this environment. In my experiences, I was lead through the office by the “golden boy” developer for a quick meet and greet with the current development team before being taking into an office with the owner/investor/guy-who-would-rather-do-nothing-so-is-hiring-me to have the demands laid out before – but not before they tell me how cool they are, how cool what they are doing is and how great and awesome their ideas are. In both cases I was given the distinct feeling that not only would I be treated like crap and paid pretty much in the same manner, but that I likely would not be being paid for long as I could not see how their model and vision would go anyplace but bankruptcy.
Nice article Carleen, I thoroughly enjoyed the read… Now to figure out where to go when I get out of school!
-Matt

By: Anne

Anne — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:00:26 +0000

The site is back up and running now!

By: Angeline

Angeline — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:31:39 +0000

What you said is really true…even in other countries as well. It’s like a brand, like pop corns and cokes. And I tried to access the Red Canary website but it’s unavailable at the moment (sigh). Any ideas when it will be up and running?