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- canoe
Growing leaps and bounds, yet can't find reliable developers, jr designers, pr+social+content generation peoples.
Everything on linkedIn returns Indian results. Thinking of starting a relationship at CCS to see if there's any alumni around.
Facebook hasn't generating any interest either.
Maybe some kind of local tweet service.
Any ideas?
- monNom0
poaching?
- monNom0
or increase your rates so you get less busy?
- zarkonite0
That's because linkedin is shite.
- d_rek0
I'm a CCS alum and work in southeast MI.
What are you looking for?
- design@derekapa.com if you want to hit me up. I can help with overflow or put you in touch with some people in the area.d_rek
- aread_rek
- fredddddd0
Good topic title.
- PonyBoy0
all the good ones are either taken or busy
- dbloc0
full time or freelance?
- canoe0
^ depends on skills, experience - what they bring to the table - mix of part and full time hours, contract.
the more I learn I hear content/social and a separate role design and execution with prob a lot of direction.
- Continuity0
I hate to say it, but you may want to hook up with a specialist recruitment firm/headhunter. They'd be able to filter the gold from the shite in the pile of CVs.
There'd be a fee for you, obviously, but at least you're not facing the glut of cheap and dodgy Indian labour on LinkedIn that way.
- fadein110
I will happily do design / build for you. I am freelance and will quote on a fixed price basis.
Would you like me to send you more info?
- 23kon0
Specialist recruitment is the way to go.
Hiring in the past has been a pain when you have to do it yourself and end up with shed loads of sh*te applications - people not even qualified, people wanting to work from abroad, people chancing their arm to try wangle their way into the job with no prior experience or knowledge of the field.
Recruitment folk ... you give them the spec for the kind of person you want ... then they do the ground work and shortlist folk who are well suited and send you the list.
No f*ckwits ... just suitable applicants.
It does cost, but it is worth it.
- vaxorcist0
make it clear to people that this will be a good gig, don't use the word "rockstar" and do use words like "respect" and such....
are you looking for FT /freelance,.in-office or work anywhere?
Check people with lots of referrals on stack overflow, etc... there are various communities like local meetups for javascript, Django and Ruby on Rails where you can find cool, smart, but often skeptical people, go to a few meetups and listen before you try to start recruiting, offer to host if you have an office, then you can be a soft-seller and let people pre-visualise where they might work and they might contact you....
- d_rek0
If you're trying to recruit for part-time/full-time a headhunter is a great way to go. The other option is to post on more design-centric job boards. ie: krop, be h a nce, dribbble jobs, underconsideration, designjobs.aiga.org
- bulletfactory0
All I know are no talent cunts.
- canoe0
vax - interesting.
- canoe0
Everyone must be working!I can't believe nobody on QBN is interested in freelance work.
- it helps when you post what you're looking for and what the freelance work is and who it's formonospaced
- e-wo0
I emailed you, but returned a delivery error. Where can I reach you?
- canoe0
I prefer if you post your contact information - not you monospaced. All I need is a loose cannon to deal with.
- evinwolverton@gmail...e-wo
- you don't know me, nor am I looking for a freelance gig, you don't need to insult memonospaced
- e-wo0