Spencer Allen - Veteran Tech Recruiter

Featuring Spencer Allen, js.la co-organizer and veteran tech recruiter Talking Points: The path to get to where a recruiter is seeking you out What hiring managers are looking for How to send the right signals to hiring managers How to communicate effectively in an interview Preparing for an interview How to know if a company is an engineering culture dumpster fire The role of nervousness in an interview What good hiring managers do The right path for a code school grad / new developer How to approach tech meetups when looking for a job Quotable Quotes: “Building tools and using them yourself is the hallmark of a great developer.” -- DG “Your path for trying to understand the developers and engineers you were trying to recruit is identical to the path that I recommend any junior developer or new developer taking” -- DG “Making sure that I’m adding value whenever I can -- a lot of the conversations that I have are as a sounding board and just having coffee.” -- SA “There’s a trope with junior developers where I’m waiting for them to ask me if I have any jobs for them.” -- SA “Time is such a negative resource for hiring managers. They’re working as hard as they can to find that person to fill a job -- and that’s in addition to their job.” -- SA “Communication is one of the most difficult things in a software engineering team. Technical challenges get a run for their money for the people challenges you face in an organization.” -- SA “To be interested is interesting. To be bored is boring.” -- SA “Communication, being coachable, those are skills that are worth their weight in gold.” -- DG “What you’re doing here is selling yourself. A resume is a sales document that’s intended to get an interview. An interview is you showing up and selling yourself.” -- SA “Establish yourself as a known quantity.” -- SA Notes: Junior-to-Senior Community community.juniortosenior.io