QUESTION; Companies that write in their tech job adverts things like 'we don't care what tech background you've got, we hire for problem solvers' or 'don't worry if you don't hit all the requirements, we're interested in you as a person'... ...Do you ACTUALLY do what you say? I have been recruiting for 12 years now and never have I once had a company say the above to me and genuinely follow through with it. There's always an "err, well, they don't really have any experience with the tech we use so we can't consider them". #recruitmentquestion #recruitment #careers #hiring #rebelrecruiters
Carl Johnson
1mo
I have done this multiple times historically taking people with say a STEM degree and training them up and that continues to this day. It depends on a business having the appetite to do it and a strategy to do that within a reasonable time, which absolutely requires use of natural mentors, not everyone is. It is quite possible if well done to do this in a very compressed time scale. This very much depends on the aptitude and drive so it is actually not a random person methodology. This will only fail when the process fails rather than the person to provide the required support and react to individuals own ways of learning. I am not aware of any not still doing that career in some shape or form years later. So yes it does happen.
Robert Gamble
1mo
Absolutely. They even hired me.
Luke Storer
1mo
We hired a junior. No previous industry experience but an absolute sterling attitude and very motivated
Ian Read
1mo
"don't worry if you don't hit all the requirements, we're interested in you as a person" = "our budget won't afford a candidate that can hit all these requirements"
Billy Williams
1mo
100%. We've never hired an engineer who uses our primary tech stack (on the backend).
Iain Stevenson
1mo
That’s code for we didn’t like them but we don’t want to appear discriminatory. Please dont assume companies don’t lie through their teeth when its convenient. Its an old HR trick.
Life experience demonstrates such promises rarely translate into practice.
CTO and co-founder, Cronofy - scheduling tools for high-performance teams
1moAbsolutely, and at Cronofy the facts back it up. 💎 Ruby-heavy stack, ~50% of our full-stack engineers have had Ruby experience. 🕸 Don't think either of our current frontend engineers had used React professionally. 🚀 We chose Go for some of our backend services, none of us had used it professionally before. 🌐 No-one in the SRE team had used Terraform before joining us. 👩🎓 Two, imminently three, people with no professional development/SRE experience have come through our support team.