Re:Ask HN: How can engineers profit from tech recruitment
by gigatexal on Friday December 09, 2022 @04:42AM
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You 100% can take some of that pie.
Get involved with recruiting if your company has internal recruiters. Start advertising on your LinkedIn page open roles and offer to refer people from your network for those roles. But here's the kicker -- don't just whore out your referrals -- vet these folks. I setup, much like a recruiter would, a video call with the person if they're not a friend but a connection and we talk. I get to know them. Figure out their desires and what they want out of a role. I try to get a sense as an engineer of what their skills are and coach them in the roles that they'd have the best chance for getting hired for.
Then I reach out to the hiring manager and the recruiter and introduce them. This is after the refer-ee applies to a role and I endorse them internally. And anyways all of this doesn't turn into a referral bonus but when the whole thing works out and they get hired a bonus is paid out and then just rinse and repeat.
Get involved with recruiting if your company has internal recruiters. Start advertising on your LinkedIn page open roles and offer to refer people from your network for those roles. But here's the kicker -- don't just whore out your referrals -- vet these folks. I setup, much like a recruiter would, a video call with the person if they're not a friend but a connection and we talk. I get to know them. Figure out their desires and what they want out of a role. I try to get a sense as an engineer of what their skills are and coach them in the roles that they'd have the best chance for getting hired for.
Then I reach out to the hiring manager and the recruiter and introduce them. This is after the refer-ee applies to a role and I endorse them internally. And anyways all of this doesn't turn into a referral bonus but when the whole thing works out and they get hired a bonus is paid out and then just rinse and repeat.