My experience in building and improving recruitment process to create and grow great teams. You can find the video here (in Italian): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5YQbVNBhZ4&feature=youtu.be

1. Hiring Great People 3 maggio
2018
Sponsored by
How we improved our recruiting process to build
and grow great teams!

2. PIETRO DI BELLO
Agile Coach
Señor Coder
Love pizza and ice-creams
Works at XPeppers in a great team!
@pierodibello
@xpeppers

3. A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS
FOR YOU…

4. “THROUGH GREAT HIRING,
YOU WILL BE ABLE TO
TRANSFORM YOUR
ORGANIZATION”
Sean Landis - “Agile Hiring”

5. GREAT COMPANIES
ALWAYS HAVE
THOUGHTFUL AND
ADVANCED HIRING
PROCESSES

6. MANY COMPANIES TEND
TO EITHER OVERLOOK OR
UNDERESTIMATE HIRING

7. WARNING SIGNS THAT THE
RECRUITMENT PROCESS IS
UNDERESTIMATED IN YOUR
COMPANY

8. don’t know what your hiring process is
not involved in the hiring decisions
involvement is irrelevant
skill level of the teams is not where it should be
new colleagues do not fit

9. few new applications
tons of applications, too many just out of target
candidate doesn’t accept the offer
your company doesn’t grow at all or is growing too damn fast

10. THE THREE PILLARS OF RECRUITMENT
★ Sourcing
★ Assessing
★ Onboarding

11. SOURCING > ASSESSING > ONBOARDING
a proper job description
online job boards
social media
sponsor events
external recruiters
open-source projects
university affiliations and internship programs
How to make the good people apply?
And BTW discourage the not-matching candidate from applying?
Techniques you’ll use to attract suitable candidates

12. review résumé
testing skills
in-person interviews and auditions
take the decision
make an offer
Is this person the right one for our team and our company?
This is where you get to know the candidate!
SOURCING > ASSESSING > ONBOARDING

13. bootcamp
study path
tutoring
peer reviews
How can the new employees reach a good level of proficiency and
integration in the team in the shortest time possible?
The first period of employment of a newcomers, from the first day on
SOURCING > ASSESSING > ONBOARDING

14. A CLASSIC RECRUITMENT
WORKFLOW

15. A MORE MATURE
RECRUITMENT WORKFLOW
1. screen the résumé
2. phone interview
3. in-person interviews and audition
4. hire decision
5. make an offer

16. OUR ACTUAL RECRUITMENT
PROCESS
1. screen the résumé
2. solve unattended test
3. in-person interview
4. audition
5. hire decision
6. make an offer

17. HIRING
PRINCIPLES I
LEARNED

18. VISUALIZE
YOUR
RECRUITMENT
PROCESS

19. VISUALIZE TO START IMPROVING

20. VISUALIZE THE CANDIDATE FLOW

21. DON’T FALL IN LOVE WITH
YOUR RECRUITMENT
PROCESS

22. Collect metrics from your recruitment board
to improve your process.
For example, in the résumé screening step you can measure:
résumé quality: how many résumés are filter out?
résumé filtering quality: how many résumés we accepted then fail
to pass the next hiring step?
METRICS METRICS EVERYWHERE

23. METRICS METRICS EVERYWHERE

24. METRICS METRICS EVERYWHERE

25. METRICS METRICS EVERYWHERE

26. METRICS METRICS EVERYWHERE

27. METRICS METRICS EVERYWHERE

28. INVOLVE ALL
THE TEAM

29. VALUE SOCIAL
SKILLS OVER JUST
TECHNICAL
SKILLS

30. CULTURAL FIT
MANTRA

31. …CULTURAL FIT
“Cultural fit will trump all technical skills. Every
time. It doesn’t matter how technically great a
person is. If a candidate’s cultural preferences
do not match your organization, that person
will not fit.”
Johanna Rothman, “Hiring Geeks That Fit”

32. VALUE DIVERSITY

33. KNOW YOUR ORGANIZATION,
KNOW YOUR TEAM

34. HIRE GREAT
PEOPLE :-)

35. RESPECT THE
CANDIDATE

36. USE HIRING
CHECKLISTS AND
DRIVING
QUESTIONS

37. REBOOT YOUR
TEAM WITH
INTERNS AND
GRADUATES

38. WAIT FOR
GOOD
CANDIDATES

39. COME UP WITH
YOUR OPINION
BEFORE EVEN
ASKING OTHERS
THEIRS

40. BEWARE OF
CARGO-CULTING

41. SO….
REBOOT YOUR
RECRUITMENT
PROCESS!

42. 1. Describe the workflow of your recruitment process: try visualizing all
the steps and the flow of the candidates. Discuss the outcomes with
your team and your HR department.
2. What is working and what is not in your current recruitment process?
Use the workflow diagram drawn in the previous exercise to
highlight unrealized improvement opportunities
3. How the current recruitment process is supporting the growth of
your team / your company and helping them become what they’re
still not?

43. TWO GOOD
BOOKS
“Agile Hiring” by Sean Landis
“Hiring Geeks That Fit” by Johanna Rothman

44. THANK YOU!

45. QUESTIONS?