presented at agileindia2012

1. WORLD WAR 4 TALENT!
EXPERIENCE REPORT
FEBRUARY 2012

2. OUR BACKGROUND
OUR SECRET WEAPON
OUR LESSONS LEARNED
OUR SHARED EXPERIENCES
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3. OUR BACKGROUND
OUR SECRET WEAPON
OUR LESSONS LEARNED
OUR SHARED EXPERIENCES
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4. OUR BACKGROUND
OUR GROUP
•We are part of
a globally distributed
application development
team
•We deliver high business
value IT solutions
•Leveraging AGILE for over 5
Jill Caporrimo years Belkis Vasquez-McCall
Product Owner Senior Product Owner
2011 Recruiting Co-Lead 2011 Recruiting Co-Lead
•Have over 12 years of IT •Have over 13 years of IT
experience experience
•Certified Scrum Master •Certified Scrum Master
•Certified Scrum
Practitioner
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5. OUR MISSION
Move from recruiting
the right talent to
attracting exceptional
people
WHY?
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6. OUR BACKGROUND
OUR SECRET WEAPON
OUR LESSONS LEARNED
OUR RETROSPECTIVE
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7. OUR SECRET WEAPON AGILE
Prototype
Experiences
2
Sprint
Prioritize 1 3 Develop
2-4 week work
Roles & cycles Deliverables
Skills
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Validate
with Candidates
& Interviewers
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8. OUR SECRET WEAPON AGILE
Prioritize 1
Roles &
Sprint
Skills
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9. PRIORITIZED High Priority Roles
Software Architect Product Owner Data Architect
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10. PRIORITIZED Current and Needed Skills
Sonal ? ? Rahul
High
Product Owner Skills
? Ashish
Low
Riken ?
Low High
Agile Knowledge/Experience
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11. OUR SECRET WEAPON AGILE
Prototype
Experiences
2
Prioritize 1
Roles &
Sprint
Skills
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12. PROTOTYPED Our Recruiting Process
ATTRACT FILTER
INTEGRATE SELECT
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13. PROTOTYPED Our Recruiting Experience
Phases
Select Best Fit:
Experience
Attract Candidates Filter Talent Pool Passions/ Personality Integrate into IT
Days 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Let me just collect a I can influence IT projects
Did you know that IT Let’s exchange our
few details about you and culture
is hiring? experiences
Activities/Interactions
Must Convey: Captures following info: Enable candidate to share their talents: Enable new hire to navigate IT:
▪ IT organizational culture ▪ Experiences, passions and ▪ Innovative interviewing format ▪ Share knowledge on basic
▪ Technology and domain aspirations ▪ Expose IT experiences, passions and of IT culture, and projects
available to experiment with aspirations
▪ Distinctness of the group
√ Sounds interesting √ I want IT to learn about me √ Sounds like this is a great place to work √ I’m starting to
Candidate
Response
√ Worth 10 minutes of my time √ This is a really efficient way for! understand the culture
to hear about IT to collect my details! √ I never thought about some of the √ I feel comfortable getting
√ Sound like a fun innovative √ Hope to hear from them ideas that were shared staff to a project
group soon. √ Best interview I ever had!
√ I felt like my time was being valued x I am clueless about the
x Don’t have time x Why do they need this group
x Another recruiting scam information? x They made me waste my time x I am staff to a project
x I have no idea who they are x This is taking far to long x Interview was boring and I was able to and not sure where to
predict their next question start
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14. OUR SECRET WEAPON AGILE
Prototype
Experiences
2
Prioritize 1 3 Develop
Roles &
Sprint Deliverables
Skills
4
Validate
with Candidates
& Interviewers
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15. DEVELOPED & VALIDATED To ATTRACT Talent
Referrals
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16. DEVELOPED & VALIDATED To ATTRACT Talent
Referrals
Social media outreach
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17. DEVELOPED & VALIDATED To FILTER Talent
Coding/design exercise
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18. DEVELOPED & VALIDATED To FILTER Talent
Coding/design exercise
External presence
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19. DEVELOPED & VALIDATED To FILTER Talent
Coding/design exercise
External presence
WHY us?
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20. DEVELOPED & VALIDATED To SELECT Talent
Paired Programming
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21. DEVELOPED & VALIDATED To SELECT Talent
Paired Programming
Group Exercise
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22. DEVELOPED & VALIDATED To SELECT Talent
Paired Programming
Group Exercise
Tech Talk
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23. DEVELOPED & VALIDATED To INTEGRATE Talent
Meet and Greet
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24. DEVELOPED & VALIDATED To INTEGRATE Talent
Meet and Greet
New Hire Buddy
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25. DEVELOPED & VALIDATED To INTEGRATE Talent
Meet and Greet
New Hire Buddy
Readiness program
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26. OUR SECRET WEAPON AGILE
Prototype
•Process
•Experience
2
Develop
Deliverable
Prioritize 1
•Roles Sprint 3 •Coding Exercise
•Peer Programming
•Skills
VALUE DELIVERED
4 Flexible and attractive
recruiting process to
Validate to build great teams
With Candidates
& Interviewers
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27. Lessons Learned
You need
It is important You need to invest to get enablers
to build a brand time in building of your process to
to attract your recruiting champion your
exceptional talent brand recruiting brand
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28. OUR STORY
OUR SECRET WEAPON
OUR LESSONS LEARNED
OUR SHARED EXPERIENCES
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29. OUR SHARED EXPERIENCES
How would you ATTRACT, FILTER, INTEGRATE & SELECT?
ATTRACT FILTER
YOUR MISSION
Map Out the Recruiting
Experience For One
of the Four Areas
INTEGRATE SELECT
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30. APPENDIX
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31. OUR MISSION
Expand our presence
in India to build great Agile teams
40+ 2 20+
20 distributed agile
teams
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32. OUR OUTCOME
Pre-screened over
400 resumes
Interviewed over
100 candidates Hired
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