tech talent hunting

Tech HuntingStep by step guide to recruit a programmer for your project

Agenda

FIND Right people through right channels

CONNECT Via the relevant tools

CONVINCE Pitch & specs

STEP 1

PUT YOUR IDEAS ON PAPER

•Pitch & value proposition •Design wireframes •Describe the core features •Do your research

What’s a product pitch?

Target Who are my customers?

Pain What do they suffer from?

Solution How do I answer their need?

Example

Target Men who are in a serious relationship

Pain A couple requires a lot of care to avoid breakup/divorce

Solution Henry is a mobile subscription-based service for men,

providing daily suggestions to inspire, educate, plan actions

Target Creative entrepreneurs, marketers, business people

Pain They don’t have the skills to achieve their dreams

Solution Le Wagon is not a traditional school: we've built a very intensive & selective 9-week program to teach product

development to skilled students.

Example

Wireframes

wireframe.cc

Example

Functional specifications

TIMELINE

(PAGE)

CLICK + BUTTON

POTIONS

(WECHAT POST)

CUSTOM ACTION

(PAGE)

ACTION BUILDER

(PAGE)

SWIPE ACTION

CLICK ACTION

DONE NOT DONE

READ

CHANGE DATE

DELETE

SIGN-UP

(PAGE)

ADD TO TIMELINE

(PAGE)

ACTIONS

(WECHAT POST)

READ MORE LINK

WECHAT SERVICE ACCOUNT MOBILE SITE

H E N R Y ’ S – V 0 . 3 ( M V P )

Binded users

New users

g l o b a l f l o w

Example

Do your research

Data science?

Artificial intelligence?

WeChat?

E-commerce? Mobile app?

Website?

Hong Kong?Aliyun?

Do your research

Do your research

https://hackernoon.com

Do your research

https://eng.uber.com/tech-stack-part-one/http://techstacks.io

https://www.quora.com/What-kind-of-technology-does-Slack-use

https://arstechnica.com/business/2011/10/when-clever-goes-wrong-how-etsy-overcame-poor-architectural-choices/

Do your research

To be considered…

RECRUITMENT

RELEVANCY

MAINTENANCE

SCALABILITY

EFFICIENCY

Example

STEP 2

USE THE PROPER CHANNELS

JOB OFFERS

PARTNER

Github

14M developers

Microsoft, Facebook, Nasa…

5.8M active users in 2016

Technical resume for software engineers

China

+97% new user signups in 2016

GithubOrganizations

GithubProfiles

GithubRepositories

Github

Let the hunt begin

http://githuber.cn

http://octohunt.com

http://octohunt.com

Example

Example

StalkTwitter: culture fit?

StalkLinkedIn: mutual connections?

STEP 3

GET IN TOUCH

ConnectEmail

Example

ConnectLinkedIn => Weixin

Everybody is looking for something

Make your boss happy? A new professional challenge?

Some good fun? Learn more stuff?

Do something useful? Be the next unicorn?

Happy Hunting!