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Marcel Panse, CTO and co-founder of Unless, was in the middle of hiring for a number of roles during his startup’s rapid growth stage. With so much work to do, he needed to hire tech talent quickly and efficiently. Turning to Honeypot, Marcel successfully discovered and hired a perfect match in just 14 days.
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In a highly competitive hiring environment, the success of a startup often hinges on the ability to bring skilled in-house team on board.
But how can a startup stand out in the crowd and attract talented developers?
Marcel Panse, the co-founder and CTO of Unless, reveals his practices for hiring developerts for his startup.
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As a Senior HR Manager, Greg Penola oversees HR for Rover’s European workforce. While reviewing recruitment costs, Greg observed that tech hiring at Rover was becoming expensive and the process unusually slow. With Honeypot’s help, he and Rover’s recruiting team cut tech hiring costs by an outstanding 45%.
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In the startup world, CTIOs like Christian juggle both team leadership and talent acquisition. It can be a real struggle to manage such important areas of work, but once Christian discovered Honeypot, he was able to hire new team members in as little as 20 days. That’s 80% faster than before he used Honeypot.
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Startups often have difficulty forming their first tech teams. Konstantin, the Head of Operations at Valuecase, encountered this exact problem. He tried various methods to recruit tech talent and after trial and error, found that Honeypot was the most effective option for the job. In the end, 80% of Valuecase’s tech team was hired through Honeypot.
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Betrachten wir doch mal die Personalbeschaffung als hohe Kunst. In diesem Sinnbild ist Tech-Rekrutierung wie die Arbeit eines Maestros. Man verfolgt die neusten Technologietrends, studiert das Fachjargon, reagiert auf ständig neue Marktchancen und auch Herausforderungen. Es ist, alles in allem, ein gewagtes Unterfangen.
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Die Rekrutierung von Fachpersonal im Technologiesektor gehört bereits zu den größten Herausforderungen vieler Personaler weltweit—Tendenz steigend. Nach aktuellen Prognosen wird die Zahl der offenen Tech-Jobs in den kommenden Jahren größtenteils zunehmen. Parallel dazu verknappt sich der Pool an qualifizierten Entwickler*innen: Bis 2030 rechnen wir mit einem weltweiten Mangel von mehr als 85 Millionen Tech-Fachkräften!
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SoSafes Recruiting-Prozess war stark abhängig von externen Agenturen. Als Nico als Talent Acquisition-Partner ins Team kam, wurde er damit beauftragt, den Recruiting-Prozess des Unternehmens wieder verstärkt inhouse abzuwickeln und gleichzeitig SoSafes Einstellungskosten zu reduzieren.
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Getir ist bekannt dafür seinen Kunden Lebensmittel innerhalb weniger Minuten zu liefern. Als eines der am schnellsten wachsenden Scale-ups in Europa steht das Unternehmen jedoch vor einem bekannten Problem: effizientes Tech-Recruiting.
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Attracting and retaining top tech talent is no easy feat in today’s bustling job market. But there’s a secret weapon that will help: salary benchmarking.
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Money isn’t everything, but let’s face it: we all want to be compensated fairly for our hard work. When talented candidates are weighing their options, a competitive salary and benefits package can be the deciding factor.
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Enpal’s tech recruiting team leverages Honeypot to connect with relevant tech talent. The platform’s detailed candidate profiles, coupled with the high engagement of talent, significantly reduce the time and effort required to fill open positions.
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Jonathan, Belden’s EMEA tech recruiter, used Honeypot to overcome the company’s limited brand recognition among developers. This allowed him to effectively reach his target audience and lower hiring costs.
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Tech talent can be hard to reach, especially for startups like neoworx, who don’t enjoy the same brand recognition as established brands. Honeypot’s reverse recruitment model helped Oxana, Senior HR Manager at neoworx, attract relevant talent and make hires in an average of 37 days.
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Jelle initially found his job as a developer at Litera Clocktimizer through Honeypot. Since his promotion to Manager of Software Engineering, he now uses Honeypot as his sole (and favourite) tool to grow and scale his team.
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Projektionisten is often on the lookout for great, new developers, and they were recently looking to hire two German-speaking developers to join their tech team. To achieve this, they decided to turn to Honeypot. After conducting just six interviews on the platform, Projektionisten made three hires.
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SoSafe, a fast-growing tech company based in Germany, had been relying heavily on external agencies for recruitment, which was both expensive and limited their control over the recruitment process. To address the high cost per hire, Nico joined the team as a Talent Acquisition Partner.
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If you’re struggling to find software developers with enough experience to fill your senior roles, then you’re not alone. According to Bitkom, 41% of employers can’t fill a tech position due to the general lack of professional qualifications in the market.
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The workplace as we know it has ceased to exist. Was that too dramatic? Perhaps. But we can’t deny that the last few years created a drastic shift in working conditions. And that shift opened up a new avenue of employment possibilities - one of them being globally remote.
HR Tips Mikaella C.
It’s a tricky time to hire. The cumulative effects of COVID, the Great Resignation, and global economic shifts have led to a scarcity of skilled tech workers in Germany. The problem is both Europe-wide—where the Korn Ferry Institute found that by 2030 the tech industry labor-skill shortage will reach 14.3 million workers—and specific to Germany, where Bitkom reported that 96,000 vacancies for IT experts in Germany remained unfilled in 2021.
HR Tips Hayley Kuhl
When you’re building a digital solution as sophisticated as OMRT’s, it’s important to get the best developers on board. However, the time, energy and money it takes to find them is like banging your head against a wall.
HR Tips Iolanda Saló
The future of work is forever changed – and many say for the better. According to the recent New World of Work Report, 63% of companies went fully remote by the time COVID-19 hit its peak, and 82% say it will be important for candidates going forward. Not only that, but the option to work remotely is a number one priority for most job-seeking developers.
HR Tips Eli McGarvie
At the beginning of this year, Talent Board predicted that “the number one recruiting focus for 2020 will be employer branding” and they weren’t wrong.
Two years ago, searching ‘employer branding’ in Google would yield around 2 million results. Today, you’ll find over 98 million. The workforce is more competitive than ever; the best candidates have more options than they can handle, and if you hadn’t thought too much about your employer brand before, then now is the time to think about how to differentiate your company. According to Google, many of you already are.
HR Tips Sophie Soulane
Recruiting tech talent is the main challenge for many HR managers and recruiters around the world, and it’s about to get even more challenging. In the coming years, the number of available tech jobs is expected to largely increase. At the same time, the pool of qualified developers will decrease – by 2030, we anticipate a global shortage of more than 85 million tech workers!
For this reason, it’s more important than ever to prepare. Even companies that already have a healthy pipeline of candidates should be proactive in improving their recruitment strategy to remain competitive, and reverse recruitment is the way to do it. We’ve listed the most important performance indicators in tech recruitment you should be looking at, how to measure them and how to improve them using reverse recruitment.
HR Tips Eli McGarvie
If there’s one thing we’ve learned from COVID-19, it’s that working from home has actually proved very manageable, and the cloud of assumptions surrounding distributed teams have been set straight. This pandemic has already defined the future of work, and while the crisis will surely end, the trend towards remote work will not.
HR Tips Eli McGarvie
We have quickly learned how much of a struggle it is to take our company culture and all the rituals we enjoyed and upload them to an online workspace. It’s not quite the same, is it? We can’t really identify what makes our company different from the next, and that’s just one station away from ‘why do I even work here in the first place?’ When the humanised element of work is stripped away, engagement suffers, culture and morale take a hit, and that’s when a team and the company begins to suffer from lower productivity and employee satisfaction.
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This is part four of Honeypot’s Remote Hiring Guide. Here’s part one: How to Source and Screen Developers Remotely, part two: How to Interview Developers Remotely and part three: How to Onboard Developer Teams Remotely.
Though it’s been a standard practice of developer work for years, managers still get nervous about remote work - especially when it happens suddenly. The path to remote work can be bumpy, meaning managers need to rethink their leadership style - you’ll have to say goodbye to those quick coffee chats and spontaneous meetings!
To curtail the nerves of managing a remote team, we’ve created this handy guide which’ll help you understand some of the best practices of remote management so you can effectively direct staff with confidence through the rocky and rough roads of transition - good luck!
HR Tips Alexia Paradzai
So you’ve received the news that in an attempt to cut down on costs, you have to slow down or completely pause your recruiting efforts. Now that you’ve finally settled into a new routine, you may be finding yourself with a few more hours at hand (a big shock compared to the usual hectic pace of recruitment!). And you think to yourself, now what? When the chaos is over and it’s time to start recruiting again, how do you make sure you are at the top of your game? Here are seven things to do in a hiring freeze to make sure you come out on top.
HR Tips Hayley Kuhl
This is part three of Honeypot’s Remote Hiring Guide. Here’s part one: How to Source and Screen Developers Remotely and part two: How to Interview Developers Remotely
Developers have been requesting remote work for years and they are not alone - 99% of workers say that they would like to work remotely at least some of the time for the rest of their careers. By developing a remote onboarding process now, you’re not only getting ahead, you are likely fixing a flawed process (just 12% of respondents in a Gallup Survey stated that their company does a great job with onboarding). To help you get off on the right foot, we’ve compiled some best practices for you to implement in your own company onboardings.
HR Tips Hayley Kuhl
This is part two of Honeypot’s Remote Hiring Guide. Here’s part one: How to Source and Screen Developers Remotely and part three: How to Onboard Developers Remotely
You had your interview process down. Your candidate experience was stellar. Glassdoor was packed with positive reviews, your inbox overflowed with candidate emails thanking you for the smooth experience. But then COVID-19 hit, and your company, like many others, adopted an indefinite work-from-home policy. No more face-to-face interviews, no more onsite days, no more get-to-know-the-team-lunches.
HR Tips Eli McGarvie
This is part one of Honeypot’s Remote Hiring Guide. Here’s part two: How to Interview Developers Remotely and part three: How to Onboard Developers Remotely
Corona has highlighted the need for better and more efficient remote working practices. Jumping into this new reality means rethinking recruiting practices to remain agile. When it comes to sourcing and screening for tech positions you’re going to want to be on your A-game.
HR Tips Geneva Brooks
As recruiters, we’ve all experienced the heartbreak of a newly hired employee leaving after only a short time. Sometimes we’re left wondering what happened, and other times it’s quite clear, but the resulting frustrations are almost always the same. As we scramble to restart the hiring process and find a replacement, we often ask ourselves: is there something we could have done differently?
HR Tips Stefan Kingham
The second edition of HiveConf is fast approaching and it promises to be another fantastic opportunity for HR and Talent Acquisition Leaders to gain actionable insights from some of the most respected thought leaders in the industry!
But hey, if you’re still on the fence about the whole thing or just unsure how to convince your manager to let you attend, here’s a quick recap of the main reasons why you’d be mad to miss it (and your manager would be mad not to let you come 😜).
HR Tips Katharina Kretschmer
Tech recruitment can be tough, for employers and developers alike. Employers often have to send hundreds of messages and get few responses, while developers have to read through dozens of generic messages. Here at Honeypot, we want to change tech recruitment, for the better, and make sure companies can easily connect with the best tech talents from around the globe.
HR Tips Priscilla Tenggara
Last week, 200 HR and engineering leaders gathered in one of Berlin’s iconic venues, Festsaal Kreuzberg, to participate in our first ever Hive Conference. Throughout the day, attendees gained the latest insights on recruiting top tech talents, scaling an engineering team and building an effective leadership pipeline while listening to industry speakers, participating in workshops and networking with HR and tech professionals.
HR Tips Stefan Kingham
Are you a HR professional looking to recruit the best tech talent or a CTO wondering how to scale up your engineering team to greatness? Whether you’re yearning to learn more about employer branding, employee experience, organizational design or reward systems, you won’t want to miss our very first Hive conference!
HR Tips Mia Bijman
Building a great team can be expensive, particularly in the field of engineering where seasoned developers with over 8 years of experience can earn upwards of 58k per year.
But before you whip out your bank statements and start questioning the financial viability of your business, know that the Dutch government regularly supports local organizations and offers various grants and incentives to companies in the tech sector.
HR Tips Stefan Kingham
Unless you’ve been living under a rock or quite simply have no interest in business, the chances are you’ve heard about the NOAH18 Conference and know this year’s Berlin edition took place on the 6th-7th of June at the Tempodrom!
HR Tips Stefan Kingham
18… That’s the number of emails I’ve received so far today from companies updating their privacy policy and terms of service. For what it’s worth though, I’m not complaining. I mean, all these privacy updates are in our best interests as consumers and web users, right? Plus we sent out our own GDPR email last night so we’d hate to be hypocrites! 😂
HR Tips Stefan Kingham
Back in 2004, a Google search of the term “employer branding” would have yielded 3000 hits. Today that number is well over 2 million.
Employer branding is quite evidently gaining greater strategic importance with each passing day, but what’s it all about exactly?
HR Tips Emma Tracey
Running a developer conference is challenging. Really challenging.
But I’m lucky. I ran GraphQL Europe 2017 with a team of four people who care deeply about GraphQL and were determined to create a special event.
This article is a guide - and a reflection - on what it took for us to plan, organize and execute Europe’s first GraphQL-dedicated conference. We got a lot of help along the way and my intention is to opensource the knowledge we inherited, picked up and learnt.
HR Tips Emma Tracey
Venture capital and private equity companies invested $1.87 billion in HRTech during the past two years. The increasing expenditure on HR and workforce-related products demonstrates the will to modernize - an effect which is spurred by demographic shifts and changes in workplace expectations.
HR Tips Hunter Wright
We’ve put together a curated list of the best HR events in the Netherlands in 2018. Without further ado, here they are:
HR Tips Hunter Wright
The start of the year is the perfect time to plan your events schedule for 2018. Learning from experts and networking with peers is the best way to keep up to date on all areas of Human Resources and Talent Acquisition, from sourcing, staffing and recruiting to onboarding, analytics, performance management, employer branding and everything in between. This article summarizes our top picks for HR and Talent Acquisiton events in Germany in 2018.
HR Tips Agathe Badia
Hiring developers is tough, especially for HR people coming from non-technical backgrounds. Getting up to speed on all the frameworks, programming languages and tools that developers use can take months. But knowing key developer terminology and associating it with the skillset of the developer is a huge advantage and will speed up the hiring process. That’s why we created this concise technical HR cheat sheet with a list of backend and frontend languages and their respective frameworks and testing tools.
HR Tips Jelle Groot
Right now, many cities in the EU have exciting tech scenes. While London and Berlin may be the most prominent destinations for developers looking to work with startups, the Netherlands is fast becoming an attractive destination. Understanding the Dutch visa process for developers is important for those looking to work in the city.
HR Tips Emma Tracey
With the rise of the Internet of things (IoT), autonomous driving, and robotics, low level firmware and embedded engineering skills are becoming more and more relevant, particularly in Germany. Writing embedded software requires very different skills from enterprise or application software development. To celebrate the new filter for embedded engineers on Honeypot, we prepared six questions you always wanted to know about embedded engineers, but were too afraid to ask.
HR Tips Emma Tracey
We talk to hundreds of developers each week. Over the course of 2016, we have gathered lots of interesting information about salaries, job expectations and technical preferences. We bundled it all together into this handy blog post so that your developer hiring in 2017 is smoother than ever.
HR Tips Janet Todorova
Have you ever wondered how software is built? Here is an attempt to explain software development by using an analogy with theatre. Let’s imagine we have a theatre production to stage and a software product to launch. The theatre art has some surprising similarities with software development.
HR Tips Kathrine Nicolaisen
DevOps is a pretty new term, which makes hiring DevOps engineers a little challenging. The term “DevOps” first appeared in 2008, as part of a movement to bring greater collaboration between developers and IT professionals while improving software delivery.
HR Tips Kathrine Nicolaisen
Type “what is DevOps” into Google and a staggering amount of results show. Considering DevOps is a relatively new term and job function in IT, there still seems to be some confusion among non-technical professionals as to what the role involves. This blog post gives a history of DevOps, provides a short comparison to System Admin, and finishes off with a glossary of DevOps terms.
HR Tips Emma Tracey
Upon handing Brian Chesky a cheque for $150 million, serial investor Peter Thiel passed one piece of advice to the AirBnB co-founder: “Don’t fuck up the culture.”
Chesky took that advice and ran with it. This year, AirBnB scraped its Human Resource department and replaced it with Employee Experience, with the sole aim of making people happy at work.
HR Tips Ewe Grajko
At Honeypot, we want to make tech recruitment better for both companies and developers. We receive constructive feedback from developers about various recruiting process on a daily basis. We have picked our seven most frequently occurring points, which can help you improve your tech recruitment, today!
HR Tips Ewe Grajko
Summer is a great time to catch up on some reading. Why not spend your time reading something inspirational that will help you shape a productive and positive work environment? We compiled a list of books that we believe every modern HR professional should read.
HR Tips Emma Tracey
Honeypot is a developer-focused job platform. We are changing tech recruitment to make it better for developers and better for companies. How are we doing that? Check out our infographic to see…
HR Tips Ewe Grajko
If you haven’t so far, it might be the right time to think about hiring junior developers. With the help of the Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB) you can now get a grant to support your new “Innovationsassistent”.
HR Tips Emma Tracey
Ever wondered where the developers using Honeypot come from?
HR Tips Kathrine Nicolaisen
As an extension of our previous blog post “interview questions for a frontend developer”, I have put together a helpful list of 5 interview questions for a backend developer.. Being a member of the talent rep team at Honeypot, I know from my own experiences how difficult it can be to figure out where to start a conversation with a backend developer. There are just too many topics, language and tools - not enough time!
HR Tips Ewe Grajko
Honeypot offers free visa support for all non-EU developers hired in Germany through our platform. We believe that for European tech hubs to be great, they need to compete on par with San Francisco in terms of talent attraction. First step is to know all about the visa process here in Germany.
HR Tips Emma Tracey
Hiring someone for a technical web development role is a huge challenge, and when it comes to complex and fast-moving roles like frontend development, even if the interviewer is experienced in that field they may not be caught up on the latest tricks, techniques, and problems.
HR Tips Joana Monteiro
Hiring developers is hard. Really hard. And it’s hard for many reasons. It’s not just the scarcity of good developers that’s challenging, it’s also the difficulty of understanding their skills, judging their code, measuring cultural fit, and on and on it goes.