Software is eating the world and the demand for technical talent outweighs the supply, making it very difficult for companies to reach, attract and engage with technical talent. Here are 5 tips on how to improve your developer communication and their candidate experience. (Taken from my talk at the Candidate Experience Awards, 1 December 2015)

1. @StackCareersUK @angelanyman #TheCandEs
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How to improve the developer
candidate experience
EMEA Candidate Experience Symposium and Awards

2. Stack Overflow Population
ParisLondonNew York + +

3. UK developer job market
of developers
are employed
98.5%
of developers want
less recruiters to
contact them
51.4%

4. What matters the most
Building something that matters
Quality of colleagues
Work / life balance

5. 1. How to contact a developer
vv
Email
Stack Overflow Careers Message
LinkedIn InMail
Phone Call
Twitter
Facebook
Great Tolerate Hate I don't have an account

6. 2. What makes developers respond to a message?
Message is
personalised
59.7%
Salary information
is provided
56.8%
Code or projects
I've worked on
are referenced
43.5%

7. 3. What is most important when evaluating a job opportunity?
Details about the
product or project
I'd be working on
54.2%
Office location
53.0%
Tech stack
42.5%

8. 4. Who do they want to speak to?
vv
My potential manager
A developer who would be on my team
In-house generalist recruiter
Headhunter (contingency recruiter)
Like Tolerate Hate

9. 5. Improving the candidate experience
Introduce me
to the team
50.7%
Show me the
space in which
I will work
42.8%
Prepare me for
who I will be
speaking with
34.3%

10. Key Insights for 2016
Forget professional programming education
Forget traditional CV’s
Think like a developerThink like a developer
Forget professional programming education
Forget traditional CV’s

11. Thank you!
careers.stackoverflow.com
@StackCareersUK @angelanyman #TheCandEs
linkedin.com/in/angelanyman