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by idm

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Your success as an IT decision maker is based almost entirely on the people that work for you. Every time you hire, it is an opportunity to add value to your team, as well as to adjust the balance of skills sets and personality of the team. As such,each hire should have your full attention and not be dismissed as another administrative chore. The following questions are about the important details associated with the various elements involved in recruiting your IT team.
These elements may include:
1. Hiring personnel
2. Advertising
3. Using recruiters
4. Interviewing candidates
5. Head hunting (making offers)
6. Using human resources department

1) What are your views on these elements, and how does this feature in your company?
2) Are there any other elements regarding staffing which you consider being important?

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by pm100

What you have just mentioned above is just "how" you get to the right people, but more important to this is the human angle.
Are they team players,
what were their last projects.
Have they worked on similar projects/roles/technology before.
Why are they leaving their currnet job.
what drives them/what motivates them
Also you have t look into your organisation and see what kinds of people will fit in.
There are many other factors / paramaters that you would have to look into

Rgds
PM

by daryl_f

I agree with PM. What you have described is how to meet potential team members. Career fairs, staff word of mouth to friends are some additions. Your real duty is to determine not only who will fit into your existing team, but I would suggest you also have to determine what your existing team may be missing. Many techniques, textbooks focus on the power of cross-functional teams, the strength in bringing together the proper mix of very disparate types of team members, etc. Analyze what you currently have, and what you are short of. Then, during interviewing, in addition to checking all that PM has recommended, make sure the candidates bring something your team needs into the mix. No room here to detail all the different mechanisms for determining your existing team mix. Some examples are Porter's Strength Deployment Inventory,Blanshard's Leadership Behavior Analysis, Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation Behavior, Parker Team Player Survey.

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