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Recruitment Strategy

Recruitment Strategy

Owned by James Ji (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Jan 04, 2023 by Angella Pham (Unlicensed)
2 min read

Overview

We have taken recruitment much more seriously than many other subcoms/societies. Despite this, some projects are held up by single individuals who we cannot afford to leave. Some roles require niche talent that we cannot find. Recruiting in tech is notoriously hard and this is true even at the university level. It is crucial we establish a proper recruitment strategy (or see websites get re-written for the 1239081230th time ).

How we will achieve this

Establish a strong recruitment pipeline

Retain talent

Scout actively

Barrier on external applications

Pipeline

Open Dev

A development program that is open to the public. No commitment is required.

Internally referred to as: “External Development”

Recruits from:

  • Anyone can join

Training Program

A smaller internal program aimed at funnelling Trainees into the Flagship Projects. Trainees are expected to have strong commitment.

Recruits from:

  • Open Dev

  • External Applications

 

Flagship Projects

The teams working on our deployed projects. Everyone is expected to have strong commitment.

Recruits from:

  • Training Program

  • Scouting

  • External Applications

Open Dev → Training Program

Standouts from Open Dev will be encouraged/invited to participate in the Training Program. They will already have a strong foundation which will allow the Training Program to properly focus on developing its Trainees for the Flagship Projects.

External Development + Training Program Pipeline

Cohesion

There is mutual interest throughout the pipeline.

  • Training Program will be invested in Open Dev to help future Trainees

    • e.g. Training Leads/Trainees helping at dev sessions

  • Flagship Projects will be invested in Training Program to develop strong members

    • e.g. Providing specialised challenges/curriculums/help to prepare Trainees for specific projects

 

Subpages are private to Team Leads

Talent Retention

https://devsoc.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/Projects/pages/429155

Scouting

Send scouts to hackathons, dev jams, personal project competitions, etc.

Keep tabs on discord (active in CSESoc discord is a great indicator!) and around uni

External Applications

Read more in the subpages!