emergency live about hiring

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Listen, first off, the market's going nuts right now. I want to tell you this. I'm getting calls from all over the country It is bonkers at the moment Clients I will tell you this if you are in a hiring position right now and you are having problems finding candidates You are probably doing two things wrong one. You're not offering full remote and two. You're not paying enough I'm sorry But if you're upset from a HR perspective or hiring perspective that you're not getting candidates from your recruiting firm That is your fault for the most part for the most part. There are a lot of recruiting firms who are really bad at their jobs I won't get into that here I've gotten that into the last previous episodes But I will tell you this if you are in hiring and you are not finding candidates is because the candidate mom If the candidate mark is absolutely bonkers right now Tasha what's going on?

It's good to see you Mohammed was going on So I will tell you this can't hiring managers if you're also if you're recruiting firm if you have a Recruiting firm and they are not partnering with you on how to hire faster. You need to find another one You need to find another because right now I'm having so many calls with CTO's VP's of engineering across the country on how to staff their teams better I will also tell you this hiring managers staff People who are hiring in any capacity right now that lead time for developers Specifically, but anybody is two to three maybe even four weeks if you have a hey We'd like to have this position here soon.

We need to go ahead and work on it You need to be sending those out to your cannons listen I don't do an emergency press conference. I don't do an emergency live session if I don't mean it right now We are getting inundated with job opportunities, but I will tell you this. I will also talk to you about this right Let's talk about fees. This is one thing that companies don't like, but I'm gonna go ahead and lay it out right now Our fee structure is 25% 25% of first-year salary that'll get you to the top. I will tell you this right now You need to probably be paying north of 25% at this point if you want the top town because you know why I'm recruiting my team at Beiko in Nashville's recruiting on 60 plus software development orders right now and if you're like oh Taylor That's expensive.

Well, yeah, how expensive is it when you're not gonna be able to fill any of your entire team for the next year Listen you have to think differently right now companies hiring managers you have to think differently The game has changed I have had so many recruiters from not only Beiko, but other recruiters I know at the Nashville that are DMing me and going what is happening? No one's responding back on LinkedIn no one's on the job boards where is everybody? Where is everybody people don't have to be anywhere because they're finding jobs 100% remote on their own and they're paying a crap ton of money So if you're in hiring right now and you're having problems one join the club to you got to pay more three You got a partner with recruiting firm who actually knows what they're doing But it's going to take time right also hiring managers you have to entertain all ways of staffing right now pure consulting Which Beiko does pure contracting Taylor what's the difference between consulting and contracting consulting basically?

It's a group of people they come in they take on a project that get out consulting is like hey I need one developer for a year right then on top of that we also do contract to hire direct hire those are incredibly important Right now at in a hiring position you need to entertain all of them and you need to have a recruiter or Or you need to have a somebody within a recruiter organization to be able to speak to all of that and be able to help you And guide you do that because I will tell you right now There's never been a more of an arms race and there ever has been right now for talent And if you're sitting there and you're trying to pay below market salary because that's what we've always done You're gonna get beat and your positions aren't gonna be worked on and you're gonna be sitting there at the end of the year Wondering why your businesses either gone under or you're gonna need to go under in 2022 All right, so let's talk about from a candidate perspective can't listen you gotta be responsible You gotta keep up with your recruiters.

You gotta keep checking in you gotta be responsible with your resume and where you're putting yourself out there Don't be double submitted everywhere, right? Be intentional with how you work with recruiters right now be smart Constantly check in with them because they are going to be your advocate right now And I will tell you this recruiters are inundated. We are inundated because what's going on is that? while the good while finding super senior talent is Very hard right now the more junior to mid levels are all over the place right? Which is another thing let's go back to hiring right hiring managers listen you're trying to find the unicorn Maybe uh, maybe you hire some mids Maybe you hire some juniors I don't know just the thought if you have so much problems finding these senior principal staff level engineers Maybe build out some of your teams.

Maybe build out some responsibilities. Why don't you slow down as a company? and figure out your responsibilities and build out some more junior teams to be able to obviously scale up faster down the road just the thought But hey, can't it's listen keep keep grinding it is very very hard out there and It's going to take time especially from a junior to mid level but also listen from a senior staff principal level like you guys get to pick up a little right now Right and the companies need to realize that I will tell you this companies if you are still watching hiring managers if you are still watching You need to be smart About how you hire Especially from a seniority perspective Devant devante you crush it seniors with juniors at one point just the thought just the thought and listen, I'm gonna finish this out.

I don't want this to go super long. You're probably watch this like Taylor Who are you you don't know what you're talking about? Listen at the end of the day. Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about right been in the industry for 10 years now I've met over 4,000 engineers probably closer to 5,000 software developers now right I've placed over 500 people under dream jobs Right at the end of the day. I'm only one recruiter But I will tell you this what I see in a sliver of this market is what other people's are seen across the country because I'm getting DMs from recruiters candidates all over the all over the country I got hiring managers calling me from all over the country Right trying to strategize on how to best find Candidates it is a war on talent right now people and if you are not being smart and you're just Trying to do things the way you've always done things you are going to get left behind All right, that's all I got listen.

I just wanted to call an emergency family meeting listen sometimes And listen I view my community as a family right everybody commented right Alex Muhammad Tasha, Devante Kenneth right you all my family listen It's hard right now. I will tell you it will turn and it will be good hiring managers. You have to do better companies You have to do better job seekers stay consistent stay aggressive Stay top of mind things will happen But I will tell you this right now. We are going through unprecedented times This has never happened before in the 10 years. I've been recruiting This year is going to be a wild ride.

Thank y'all for tuning in to my emergency press conference today Y'all have a wonderful Tuesday and I'll see you tomorrow morning I got a guest tomorrow morning from a startup here in Nashville built technologies is coming on tomorrow morning So see y'all tomorrow morning peace