Finding the perfect IT person for your organisation
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- Category: Career Resources
- Published on Monday, 04 July 2011 19:45
Sourcing qualified and dynamic technical staff can be a time-consuming and difficult proposition. With unemployment low, finding the right resources is a tricky exercise demanding a strategic approach.
Firstly, you need to identify exactly what it is that you’re looking for in a new recruit. It’s important to analyse the gaps that you’re trying to fill in your team by hiring a new person:
- If you’re recruiting for an existing position because a staff member is moving on, think through the attributes you’re seeking in an individual in order to make sure they fit in well with the rest of the team.
- If you’re creating a new position because of organisational change or need to increase workload due to organisational growth, it’s more a process of reviewing the way your entire team functions. You need to consider how a new position would impact on the work of the rest of the team. In this scenario, it’s advisable that you look critically at your business processes and redesign the work of the team, resulting in an increase in manpower. This is done best in consultation with the entire team.
Once it’s clear why you’re recruiting, and you know the type of person you want, you need to clearly define the job for which you’re recruiting. Ensure that a concise and detailed job description is available, outlining the objectives of the position, a description of the work of the team, the role’s specific responsibilities and duties, and the essential and desirable skills required to fulfil the position. The position description can also outline the lines of reporting for the position to give the candidate a feel for where they are in the organisation.
Once your position description is finalised, it’s important to write an advertisement for your IT job that will attract the type of job seekers that you’re interested in employing. Visit Posting a job that attracts hits for hints in how to get your advertising noticed.
With a clear idea of what type of person you’re seeking and what you want them to do, it’s time to think about how you want to source your new hire. You need to decide whether to recruit directly or to go through a recruitment agency to manage the searching and finding for you.
LinuxCareer specializes in attracting Linux professionals seeking new challenges. If you’re seeking quality resources to join your Linux or open source development team, why not register as an employer with us? We can put you in touch with our large job seeker base with a variety of Linux and open systems expertise.
Registering as an employer on our site enables you to:
- search resumes: we have a large base of registered Linux job seekers with solid Linux and open systems experience waiting to be contacted by your organisation to start a conversation about job opportunities. Searching our resumes available online enables you to find quality people with the specific skills you are seeking.
- post your jobarmed with your job description, which can be listed on our website: the benefit to you is that once your job is posted, it will be immediately emailed to prospective new hires that have the key skills you are seeking.
- Receive resume alerts of newly registered Linux job seekers who upload their resumes with us that match the skills sets you’re seeking for the listed positions.
- Sign in to LinuxCareer using your organisation’s LinkedIn and Facebook account
Other effective online jobs sites include Monster, Linux.com's jobs section and more. These portals enable you to get your job specifications out to a large array of job seekers.