“To Hire a Developer, Think Like a Developer”

Or even better, understand what 15,000 developers value when they are looking for their next gig from:

• 15,000 devs surveyed by Workshape.io – Infographic here
• 4.7 million dev-strong Stack Overflow’s head of intelligence
• The truth from dev-centric Landing Jobs

In this double feature event we’ll also hear from Power Hirers who have been involved in hiring hundreds:

• Head of Talent for a 170-startup portfolio fund and
• Founder of Silicon Valley-based Tapulous (sold to Disney) and then Europe-based ZapTravel (sold to Lebara) who dislikes recruiters

We’ll power through the real topics and tricks with people with dozens of years in the trade including:

• The most important job factors for developers (not just cash money)
• Can agents be avoided?
• Candidate-led recruiting processes & employee branding
• Retaining great devs over time

Agenda:

18:00 – 18:30 – Registration, drinks & welcome

18:30 – 19:15 – Insights from the Developers

19:15 – 20:00 – Power hirers share insights

20:00 – 20:30 – Q & A

20:30 – 21:30 – Stick around for chats & drinks

Industry Pros

• Dimitar Stanimiroff – Stack Overflow

Dimitar was the first European employee of Stack Overflow. He launched Stack Overflow Careers in Europe, scaling the team from 0 to 60+ people across UK, Germany and France. Dimitar is currently the MD for Developer Insights – Stack Overflow’s Talent Mapping, Analytics & Business Intelligence unit. Prior to joining SO, he co-founded OVIA (WePow).

• Hung Lee – Workshape.io

CEO & Founder of Workshape.io. A domain expert with 15 years experience in the recruitment industry, Hung is an advisor on staffing to many of the top Startups in London. Led Talent Acquisition for BraveNewTalent, PeerIndex, Qriously & Thought Machine, before launching Workshape.io in 2014 – the revolutionary recruiting platform for tech. 

• Pedro Oliveira – Landing.jobs

Pedro Oliveira is a Portuguese tech entrepreneur, co-founder @ Landing.jobs – a candidate-driven tech jobs marketplace matchmaking great talent with great opportunities. Moved from Lisbon to London a few months ago, always up to meet awesome people

Power Hirers

• Andrew Lacy – Zap Travel

Andrew is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and advisor to startup companies. He is currently based in Europe but commute frequently to the Silicon Valley. He co-founded Tapulous, an early iOS app company that he sold to Disney, and ZapTravel, a inspiration travel meta-search business, that he sold to Lebara. Andrew doesn’t think highly of the recruiting industry in general and will share some of his alternate approaches to hunting great developers and start-up talent.

• Jamahl McMurran – Seedcamp

Jamahl is the Head of Talent at Seedcamp where he works closely with Founders to on end to end hiring strategy and building culture. Always knows someone who knows someone.

Moderated by Alex Hoye, Co-founder of RunwayEast, Faction Skis and AIM-listed GoIndustry