[BNM] Wired Sussex

[Tom Nixon]

We had some really good candidates for our recent round of developer hiring so it's working for us. There is a war for talent going on though so no matter where you advertise you have to work extra hard to persuade the best people to work for you. Make sure you really sell your company and the benefits of working for you in the job ad and not just talk about what YOU want. The folks at Wired Sussex are really helpful if an advert isn't working for you. Just drop them a line and they'll see if they can make some suggestions.

Another tip: It's very common to advertise a salary as 'Dependent on experience', but this can put off a lot of candidates, particularly in an industry like ours where there are a lot of smaller employers who aren't paying the market rate. Great candidates aren't short of companies to apply to so show them that you're serious by giving the salary range, however wide that might be. I suspect that the fear is that if you give a salary range, candidates will naturally ask for the top end, however your recruitment process should be thorough enough to gauge how good someone is so you can then make them an offer commensurate with their ability and market rates.

You can try the jobs board at www.sussexdigital.com - I think they're still offering free placements, however I'm not sure how many people would be looking at this jobs board and not Wired Sussex which is the established leader locally.

T.

-----Original Message-----
From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org on behalf of Peter Kelly
Sent: Mon 8/6/2007 11:40
To: 'Brighton New Media'
Subject: Re: [BNM] Wired Sussex
 
We at Sigmer use the Wired Sussex job board extensively and have done
successfully for a number of years, but recently we're having trouble with
the volume and quality of candidate responses. Are others finding this? Is
there a change in the recruitment climate? Or are there now other job boards
that software developers and new media types now use in preference?