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Hiring

Why you should expose your Facebook profile for potential employers

We just went through another round of hiring here at 12 Spokes. We always get a flood of applicants for open positions, and of course, all the stereotypical job-seeking advice applies here—write a cover letter that addresses the individual job posting, keep your resume to one page, yada, yada, yada. There’s one stereotypical piece of [...]

What to do when you’re bombing a job interview

True story: Last year, Trey was conducting a phone interview with a developer. It was going badly. Five minutes in, Trey was thinking, “There’s no way I’m going to hire this guy.” The interviewee’s voice was flat, his answers were uninspired, and he just wasn’t fun to talk to. When you’re bombing an interview in [...]

“Just one word: Plastics.”

Or rather, “software development.” It’s nice to read articles with headlines like this one: “For Software Developers, A Bounty of Opportunity” Of course, as a business owner, I recognize that there are two sides to the coin: when you’re in a hot industry, it can be tough to keep hot talent. Still, that’s the kind of [...]

Where’s the best place to find Ruby developers? Here’s what’s worked (and hasn’t) for us.

Update: I’ve changed my tune and am sold on the 37 Signals board. Last month, we needed to hire some good Ruby developers. In the past, we’ve listed our job postings free on Craigslist and Rubynow, and we’ve always gotten dozens of responses. Moreover, we’ve hired really great people that way. But Rubynow began charging [...]