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How Squarespace Actively Engages and Sources Engineers

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Today’s Moderators

Casey Marshall Lauren Maroevich

What is Hiring Hacks? • The hiring hacks series is presented by Greenhouse

• Greenhouse is an end-to-end recruiting optimization platform, helping companies get better at recruiting

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Hiring Hacks Series• Each webinar in the series focuses on strategies and tools that helps

measurably improve the recruiting process and outcomes

• In this Hiring Hacks, Greenhouse partnered with HackerRank to discuss:

• How to write sourcing messages that attract engineers

• Best practices and channels to leverage when sleuthing the web

• How to use data to optimize your sourcing processes to get better and faster each time

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Source passionate developerswith CodeSprints, an online programming

competition.

Screentechnical candidateswith engaging, auto-

scored CodeChallenges.

Interviewstandout programmers

with CodePair, which combines video chat with

live coding.

HackerRank: End-to-end tech hiring

Enhance recruiting by ensuring engineering speaks to qualified

candidates

Recruit candidates that aren’t obvious based on resume

Improve end-to-end tech recruiting process and reduce

your time to hire

Keep top of funnel filled with fresh, passionate talent from HackerRank

community

Why HackerRank works

Hiring Hacks Speaker

Steve WoodTechnical Recruiter

Steve’s recruiting career began as the best after-school job a high schooler could dream of: sourcing for big software companies like Oracle and SAP at a tiny agency. Following stints fixings iPhones at the Apple Store and changing tires, his love of sleuthing drew him back to recruiting at The McIntyre Group, a boutique staffing firm in Connecticut, where he hired developers, project managers, and IT people for hedge funds, investment banks, and small software companies.

He then moved to the big city to leverage his creative sourcing tactics at Google, where he also picked up an appreciation for smaller start-up environments through conversations with candidates along the way. Steve has been a Technical Recruiter/Sourcerer/Level 2 Super Genius at Squarespace for the past two years, engaging engineering talent for opportunities on their fast-growing team. His mastery of the deep web is surpassed only by his passion for pizza

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Hiring Hacks with Steve Wood

• Candidate Discovery • Messaging and reach out• Better Phone Screens• Tools• Q&A

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● Website

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Takeaways

• Engineers live all over the web – they built it

• Leverage your resources and use them appropriately (there is such a thing as over personalization)

• Become a better technical recruiter through sourcing and research

• Find your niche

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The Recruiter Phone ScreenYou should be knowledgeable about:

• Your company

• Teams you recruit for

• The interview process

• Culture

• Technology stack

• Why you like working at your company

You should learn more about stuff like:

• Development process

• How often is code pushed to production?

• Open source

• How is QA and testing done?

• How different teams work together

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The Recruiter Phone ScreenAsk them about:

• On an average day – what % of your time is spent writing code?

• What technologies are you working with?

• How large is your team?

• Is your manager technical?

• What they know about your company

• Significant accomplishments - and what they’re proud of

• What they like & dislike the most?

• What would they change?

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Tools• Rapportive

• Right Inbox for Gmail

• MailTrack for Gmail

• Instapaper

• Greenhouse Gmail Integration & Greenhouse Prospecting

• Context Menu Search (Chrome extension)

• recruitin.net

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Q&A

Steve WoodTechnical Recruiter

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