Joel Spolsky for Recruiters
On Wednesday, April 22, I had the opportunity to participate as one of five members of a panel at the Employer Open House sponsored by the Wisconsin School of Business MBA Career Management Center. The audience consisted primarily of recruiters from over 30 companies. The panel lasted 90 minutes and consisted of all five members answering questions prepared in advance followed by an open question-and-answer session.
One of the hot topics was the use of social networking sites, blogging, and SMS texting to communicate between recruiters and candidates. I described how I thought Joel Spolsky was doing it right. His company, Fog Creek Software, has always been profitable and is located in New York City – one of the toughest markets in the world. Joel enables transparency by blogging and writing articles for Inc. magazine about Fog Creek Software’s policies and practices. His efforts have made Fog Creek Software one of the most desirable employers in the world.
To help add value to what I said during the panel, I wanted to collect together links to several of Joel’s articles. These articles are relevant to recruiters, hiring managers, and anyone in the position to reveal their company’s policies to better enable candidates to self-select their employer:
- Fog Creek Compensation System
- Fog Creek Professional Ladder
- Incentive Pay Considered Harmful
- The New Fog Creek Office
- Thanks or No Thanks
- Finding Great Developers
- Joel on Software Job Board
- The Joel Test
In: Articles · Tagged with: LinkedIn, MBA, recruiting, Wisconsin School of Business
Shad finds high-value intersections between business strategy and information technology. He currently resides in the Madison, WI area.
on May 6, 2009 at 8:21 am
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Shad,
Thank you for participating in the WSOB panel discussion. It is always wonderful to learn what engages you in your work and studies. Thank you for also sharing your enthusiasm for Joel Spolsky’s approach. This has piqued my interest and I will be pursuing more information about his approach.
Scott
on May 6, 2009 at 8:34 am
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Thanks so much for your comment, Scott.
I also want to congratulate you and your team at AmFam for your AmFam Career Blog. You are definitely ahead of the curve with this informative blog with content about AmFam and careers in general.