Finding the right talent
nirav May 8th, 2006
It’s become so darn difficult to find good programmers (or managers) these days! Watching some TV show the other day and it said IT companies are going to have 45% shortfall on their recruitment needs this year!
We are already facing it! We’ve been running our current recruitment drive for last two months, and have nowhere touched the numbers we wanted to. I remember we used to have the office full with candidates taking the tests / interviews on weekends. Now many don’t even turn up after confirmation.
I thought this may be happening with us, checked up with a few friends and its the same story all over.
The big guys hire straight from the engineering colleges (and they are going beyond the top 125 colleges too now), so the small and medium timers don’t have anything left. It actually means they don’t have much left not only in terms of freshers, but also experienced guys.
Training is the only answer people say. Hire any reasonably guy and train him/her to your levels.
Are we software companies or training institutes?