Tech-Recruiter.org finds candidates for a Blockchain Architect position
When hiring a subject-matter tech expert, it is important to have evidence of proven professional skills. This is a story of how Tech-Recruiter.org agency was able to find several candidates for an architect role on DevScanr.
Anastasiya Mozgovaya
IT tecruiter at Tech-recruiter LLC with an educational background in nuclear physics.
About Tech-Recruiter
Tech-Recruiter is an online academy and recruitment agency. Yazilya Nasibullina, its founder, is a well-known talent sourcing expert and influencer who helped to kick off a recruiting career for over a thousand people.
Tech-Recruiter students are taught a strategical vision of the recruitment process. The knowledge is first-hand, as the academy is built by practicing experts. As Albert Einstein said: “Example isn’t another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.” This is the exact spirit of the agency, where mentors provide master classes of closing real recruitment orders.
Anastasiya Mozgovaya has been working in the IT recruitment since 2021. Her scientific and financial background helps her to better understand candidates and market demands. Anastasia believes that the work of a recruiter is never boring, and every day brings interesting new tasks.
Sourcing Challenges
Finding a strong talent with rare skills is a common challenge for recruiters. The pools are small, by definition, so you have to rely less on filters and more on manual reviews. Another sourcing challenge for Tech-Recruiter is that it takes time to find and validate active talent contacts.
The response rate to emails is decreasing. LinkedIn messages are often ignored by engineers. Engagement works better with social networks and messengers, but it takes time to find such contacts.
In the summer of 2024, Anastasiya is looking for an architect for a Blockchain project. The specialist must be familiar with smart contracts, know the Solidity programming language, and, finally, is expected to become a team leader.
Having access to all standard recruiting platforms, Anastasia is initially seeking for blockchain architects there. But her pool is not large enough, so she opts to search for engineers on DevScanr. Anastasia has used the platform before, and she knows that here you can find talent with proven skills and verified contacts.
Finding subject-matter experts and
talent with unique skill combinations.
Finding valid and active
talent contacts.
Sourcing Solution
Skill evidence is one of DevScanr unique strengths. Where other platforms rely exclusively on what developers SAY, DevScanr is able to see and evaluate what they DO. The platform utilizes state-of-the-art machine learning and algorithms, and applies them to publicly available data like GitHub repositories.
Another great way to find out whether someone meets the bar of expertise is to ask the community. DevScanr does that in the background, collecting the number of stars and other endorsements someone receives. So you don’t have to guess or perform all that manually.
When Anastasiya is searching for Solidity engineers on DevScanr, the result list is properly sorted, with the most-experienced (by requirements) talent shown on top. The Tech-Recruiter team prefers to contact via Telegram and, so it happens, there is a corresponding filter for that.
Statistics
Search filters used for initial matching (locations, skills, seniority) of the architect for the Blockchain project resulted in about 600 matching profiles. Anastasiya chose 19 best matching profiles and contacted them. All 19 talent responded, and 5 of them were invited to the screening interview. 2 talent passed the interview successfully. Eventually, another talent was selected and hired, but, as reported: “It was a tough choice, they were great candidates.”
Since 2024, Anastasiya is using DevScanr to find more engineering tech stars. We wish her, and her colleagues, the best luck in their recruitment adventures.
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