How to Find a Programmer

The profession of a programmer is becoming more popular all over the world, and it's no wonder - the amount of electronics is growing, programs are required in virtually all areas of human life. The success or failure of many endeavors depends on the quality of the programmer's work. In search engines, the query "Find a programmer ..." stably has a high frequency. So how do you find this programmer ?

There are not really many ways:

1. Independent free search through acquaintances, and via the Internet with the help of search engines, social networks, free resume bases, analysis of posts of participants in thematic forums and blogs, etc.
2. Independent search using commercial databases summary.
3. Appeal to a recruitment agency.

Consider all the pros and cons of each of these approaches to finding a programmer.

The number one on our list is a free search. In free-of-charge, of course, the main advantage of this approach. Why pay money when you can find it for free ?! However, this ends the strengths of this method. The shortcomings are the following: for today access to the most representative databases of resumes of specialists is paid. Since serious IT professionals are usually not inclined to spend their time on posting resumes on secondary free resources and social networks, many of them have a resume exclusively on recruiting sites with paid access. So, if you need a highly skilled programmer and a scarce specialization, then you can not find such a person on free resources.

Now we turn to the second method of search - paid resume databases. On the Internet appeared a lot of online recruitment agencies. There is already much more probability of finding a programmer for the profile you need. However, the next question immediately arises: how will you assess the real competence of your competitors? Of course, if you already have qualified IT specialists in the staff, they will be able to determine the level of another programmer (by the way, they can reject the best candidate, being afraid of competition). And if you have no other programmers in the firm? (Let's say you only need one software developer to develop your project, which you are looking for). In this case, you may well be mistaken if you yourself are not an expert in this field.

Now let's move on to the third source of professional cadres - the recruitment agency, there are plenty of them now. Of course, the cost of recruitment agency services will be higher than simply the cost of information from paid resume databases, but in this case you will not only have to provide the required specialist, but also conduct an adequate assessment of the level of his professional competence. This is ideal. But the reality is that, most likely, the recruitment agency will not be able to assess the qualifications of the programmer. Why? Because to evaluate a professional can only another professional in the same professional field, i.e. programmer. And in recruitment agencies, even if they declare their IT-specialization, they are not practical programmers, but recruiters who, with programming, are familiar at best theoretically (for example, they can be graduates of universities with IT specialization).

The best choice is to contact a specialized recruitment agency engaged in qualitative selection of specialists in the IT field. HR-agencies engaged in professional selection of programmers, for example, Gorenburgov IT Recruitment , not only "close the vacancy", but also assess the professional competence of software developers. Therefore, if you want to save time, your nerves and other resources while searching for a good programmer - contact the professionals.