Designing an effective approach to hiring through continuous improvement
Hiring is time consuming and infrequent enough that it's hard to get much practice, but it has far-reaching consequences for your team's happiness and productivity. Marisa Brandt draws on a broad mix of best practices and personal experience to detail an approach to developing a concrete strategy that addresses your unique hiring needs.
| Talk Title | Designing an effective approach to hiring through continuous improvement |
| Speakers | Marisa Brandt (White House Custom Colour) |
| Conference | O’Reilly Velocity Conference |
| Conf Tag | Build systems that drive business |
| Location | London, United Kingdom |
| Date | October 31-November 2, 2018 |
| URL | Talk Page |
| Slides | Talk Slides |
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Hiring is time consuming and infrequent enough that it’s hard to get much practice, but it has far-reaching consequences for your team’s happiness and productivity. Marisa Brandt draws on a broad mix of best practices and personal experience to detail an approach to developing a concrete strategy that addresses your unique hiring needs, including best practices for improving diversity at every stage of the hiring process. A successful approach to hiring rests on a strong foundation. Marisa starts by describing how to quickly assemble the building blocks that you’ll need in order to define a hiring strategy. She also shares real-world examples that take an initial set of requirements for hiring through every stage of the process, from writing a hiring plan and job posting to making decisions after finalist interviews. Throughout, Marisa focuses on producing reusable materials that will make your initial hiring process more successful and allow you to learn from and iterate on your process in subsequent searches. Topics include:
