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Kevin Boyle here of Boyle IT and the new host of the new "New Job Video" coming out next
week, link below for that. If you're a hiring manager and it's Monday morning and I;ve sent
this to you, you own a start up company or you're responsible for hiring software developers,
then the next few minutes are going to be worth listening to. I picked up a book recently
on Amazon called "How to Keep Your Best Programmers" by a chap called Erick Dietrich. Now, it's
not exactly a page turned but it's definitely worth a read and I wanted to make a video
about the points he's made in the book, summarise them and show you why they're applicable to
this job market. Listen, in my eight years that I've been recruiting. I've never seen
market like this with so many tech companies looking and so few people available - obviously
that's why I decided to start my own company. Now, it's a great market if you're a developer
but if you're a company, not only is it difficult to find the people but these guys and girls
know that they're in high demand so they're job hopping all over the shop. You can see
my video, I'll put slink to, "Why Developers Leave Irish Companies". The secret to keep
the best guys and girls is how you actually got them in the first place. Hiring like anything
else (like any decision we make) is based on emotion, not logic. So, how did you actually
make your busy and girls feel when they first came into contact with your company. If you're
one of the companies that puts their jobs out to four different agencies on some sort
of PSL and they call the same pool of candidates who hear about the same job, the join your
company with their egos and their salary's inflated. You end of negotiating about salary's
(about salary's sorry) and negotiating about job title and benefits packages, then you're
setting yourself up for a fall and you could be in trouble when it comes to staff turnover
int he future. I'll actually be doing a video on why PSL's are a bunch of BS basically and
I'll post a link when that comes available. You could have been a very talented developers
in your days and now you've become a manager and you're good at what you do but you're
become lacklustre in your recruitment process. And that's now your fault, it's just that
nobody has told you the importance of recruitment, until now. You see, if you want the best recruitment
solution obviously speak to myself, links below. But, uh, in terms of retention it's
not enough to say "Ok, after your first year, we'll give you an increase in your salary
and an extra days holiday". You have to be a lot more creative in how you engage people
and offer your developers a more creative narrative. This is where Erick Dietrich's
book really comes into it;s own. Because it talks about making your narrative deterministic.
(still don;t know if I'm saying that word right or word properly). But basically it
talks about making sure your developers actions are moving toward a certain goal. While I
was reading this book, I came across a keynote by a chap called "Jeff Casimir" at a Ruby
Conf, this is actually last year. He actually goes into Maslows hierarchy of needs and almost
delves into it in an almost spiritual level. This goes back to why people make decisions
based on how they feel as opposed to logic. Everything is based on emotion. I mean, I'm
here in my studio on a Sunday evening you're probably viewing this on a Monday morning
because I believe there is a massive gap in the recruitment industry (in the tech market
here). The most important thing is that you engage with people front he heart and keep
it as authentic
as possible.