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Hiring the Best Knowledge Workers, Techies & Nerds: The Secrets & Science of Hiring Technical People | Johanna Rothman, Gerald M. Weinberg
Dorset House Publishing Company, Paperback, Published September 2004, 336 pages, ISBN 0932633595 | List Price: $37.95
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Good technical people are the foundation on which successful high technology
organizations are built. Establishing a good process for hiring such workers
is essential. Unfortunately, the generic methods so often used for hiring skill-based
staff, who can apply standardized methods to almost any situation, are of little
use to those charged with the task of hiring technical people.
Unlike skill-based workers, technical people typically do not have access to
cookie-cutter solutions to their problems. They need to adapt to any situation
that arises, using their knowledge in new and creative ways to solve the problem
at hand. As a result, one developer, tester, or technical manager is not interchangeable
with another. This makes hiring technical people one of the most critical and
difficult processes a technical manager can undertake.
Hiring the Best Knowledge Workers, Techies & Nerds: The Secrets &
Science of Hiring Technical People takes the guesswork out of hiring and
diminishes the risk of costly hiring mistakes. With the aid of step-by-step
descriptions and detailed examples, you'll learn how to
- write a concise, targeted job description
- source candidates
- develop ads for mixed media
- review résumés quickly to determine Yes, No, or Maybe candidates
- develop intelligent, nondiscriminatory, interview techniques
- create fool-proof phone-screens
- check references with a view to reading between the lines
- extend an offer that will attract a win-win acceptance or tender a gentle-but-decisive
rejection
- and more
An effective hiring process is crucial to saving an organization the costs
and consequences of a bad hiring decision. Not only is a bad hire costly in
terms of recruiting expenses and the time spent hiring, it can also bog down
or derail projects that may already be running late.
You, your team, and your organization will live with the long-term consequences
of your hiring decision. Investing time in developing a hiring strategy will
shorten your decision time and the ramp-up time needed for each new hire.
Technical leaders, project and program managers, and anyone putting together
a team of technical workers will greatly benefit from this book.
About the Author
Johanna Rothman observes and consults on managing high-technology product development.
She works with her clients to find the leverage points that will increase their
effectiveness as organizations and as managers, helping them ship the right
product at the right time and recruit and retain the best people.
Johanna publishes Reflections, an acclaimed quarterly newsletter about
managing product development. Johanna's book, Hiring the Best Knowledge Workers,
Techies & Nerds: The Secrets & Science of Hiring Technical People,
has proved a boon to perplexed managers, as have her articles in Software
Development, Cutter IT, IEEE Computer, Software Testing & Quality Engineering,
and IEEE Software.
The founder and principal of Rothman Consulting Group, she is a member of the
clinical faculty of The Gordon Institute at Tufts University, a practical management
degree program for engineers.
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