Championship market in Russia
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Regardless of the spreading fashion, hackathons andchampionships are still not a routine, but exotic for many recruiters. More often, he does not initiate the championship, but uses its results: he processes the database of potential candidates.
Recruiters-customers of championships for the marketis still rare. But this form of activity has already attracted the attention of devrels (specialists engaged in tech PR) and HR directors. It is they who come to the technical directors of companies and invite their teams to participate in hackathons - to demonstrate solutions to the most difficult problems, to expand the community.
The event brings together experts whoharder to reach with classic recruiting tools. Also, with the hackathon provider, you can agree on the evaluation of candidates, the transfer of data on the winners of the championship. With the database of these candidates, you can communicate or announce the hiring of the winning team as a prize. All of these are useful tools for a recruiter.
The event brings together specialists who are more difficult to reach with the help of classic recruiting tools
Benefits of the Developer Forum
At competitions, the company introduces candidates towith its technologies and sometimes with the problems that it solves every day. Yesterday's graduates can gain real experience in competitions and add it to their resume. Also, while solving problems, you can get acquainted with the developer community.
A number of providers on the Russian market transmitcustomers with high-quality databases of candidates with a link to a resume, a list of skills, confirmed projects. Often this service is included in the turnkey hackathon organization package.
Any developer forum forthe client company is working with an HR brand, an opportunity to express yourself in the hiring market, to show your technologies and real tasks. This increases candidates’ loyalty to the company, product, and level of the project team (especially if it comes up with interesting tasks for participants).
Championships are a quality recruitment tool for everyonecompanies working on their own developments. With the help of competitions, they can attract candidates, develop employer brand awareness.
Championships are a quality recruitment method for companies
recruitment tool
The shortage of IT personnel in Russia exceeds 500 thousand people.person per year. In this situation, standard recruitment methods do not work or are much slower. Developers show interest in companies that let you touch the product. This will help them make a decision about applying for a job faster than a dry job description.
It is also effective to involve mentors on behalf ofcompanies in competitions - with them developers can exchange experience and discuss difficult working situations. This way candidates can see at a glance who they will need to work with in the company if they are hired.
Championships are also a way for an employer to evaluate promising candidates who do not know how to sell themselves. They write great code, but not a summary. Such can be assessed in the case for specific actions.
Competitions give at least some practice to students andyesterday's graduates. Based on live data or live business queries, they gain experience in communicating with the audience, developing a concept, optimizing processes for technologies and technologies for processes. The market is replenished with candidates with real experience.
So competitions become a way for employers to expand the funnel of applicants. For participants - add a line in the resume about participation in the competition and solving a specific problem.
If the championship is organized by a provider for onecustomer, he will share the audience with the company and will not send the hackathon data anywhere. Even more reliable is to organize competitions for your employees yourself to switch from routine to creative. This way you can get new sources of insights about the product, solutions, breakthroughs, ideas. Participation in an external hackathon is always a risk of losing employees for the company. They can be scammed by another company.
Contests are becoming a way for employers to expand the funnel of applicants
Hackathon management
Competitions in the IT industry can be beneficial if managed well. This is what you need to prepare for.
Who is the partner?First you need to determine the competition provider. They will be organized on a turnkey basis or the customer company will take over a significant part of the process.
Area.Where, how and when the competition will take place.
Cases and tasks.What tasks will be solved by the participants of the competition.They should be interesting for the participants, demonstrate the technology stack of the customer. If there are multiple organizing partners in a championship, they compete for the best developers to hire by submitting tasks. You need to prepare the data, upload it, anonymize it and create a task based on it - all this takes time.
Jury.Who will evaluate the results of the competition and by what criteria? Will there be mentors with whom participants will be interested in exchanging experiences?
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