My work is looking to employ an additional web developer, but I’m a little out of touch as to where tech jobs are advertised these days. I used to get an agent to send a bunch of CVs but I suspected I was still doing all the work in filtering candidates, not to mention probably an old-school way.
We employ a number of warehouse staff that normally come through Jobcenter posts but that doesn’t seem the right forum, not to mention being flooded with inappropriate CVs from people who need to at least say they’ve been applying for jobs.
FWIW probably junior end but depends on fit, min HTML CSS JS desirable some ASP.NET SQL.
Whilst you can advertise on the likes of Indeed, S1 jobs, etc - you'll either get nothing or flooded with people who aren't qualified; I suspect good Web Devs are sufficiently in demand they don't need to go hunting in those places - half the responses you get will probably be from agencies anyway - even if the ad says "no recruitment agencies". LinkedIn Jobs or Stack Overflow is probably more likely to get you hits from devs who are looking - but realistically the supply/demand is such that I think most are via recruiters, who are actually having to work pretty hard both to get your business and to get candidates interested. Just tell them you only want three really strong candidates not a flood, and if they don't get you three good CVs in a week you go to the next company on the list! Make sure you've told them what you actually want / need and they know how to sell your business though - its a touch market for hiring devs at the moment.
Oh, and unless you are hiring graduates expect the candidates to tell you that tech stack isn't interesting enough for them!
+ 1 for agencies I’m afraid.
Any dev hunting for a job is probably a bit shit. Or newly qualified.
You could try LinkedIn. If your biz is suitably interesting it’s worth doing a bit of speculative outreach to people you like the look of. Everyone likes feeling in demand…
Oh, and unless you are hiring graduates expect the candidates to tell you that tech stack isn’t interesting enough for them!
I'd expect even graduates to be telling you that, tbh.
The best web-dev advert I saw was on the bbc homepage....
...as a comment in the source...
If it's not loads of work you might be better off with a contractor as they should be able to work independently. It doesn't sound like you are asking someone to join a tech team more join as a webdev for your company? If so That's a harder sell
When you get into the open market I reckon you will be very surprised at salary expectations- there’s no Job Centre developers around
Out of interest, what is your salary grade for this position?
