On behalf of employer: KMP Interactive Marketing and Technology
Reposted from our blog: http://blog.kmp.co.uk/daily_digital/2008/08/recruiting-a-ne.html
Trying to recruit a .Net Developer in Stockport
You would think that this would be an easy task wouldn't you? Five Universities all pumping out IT graduates. And Manchester is supposedly second only to the capital for digital companies.
Well recently for us it has been very difficult. Our recruitment agencies haven't been able to find us a suitable candidate with the right skills, experience and qualifications at the right price. Moreover we had a bad experience with a Leeds based recruiter RMI Recruitment UK, who helped us to hire a .Net developer. The candidate lasted exactly 5 weeks, got into difficulty with the development and then left for another job. RMI Recruitment UK refused to refund our money but agreed to replace the candidate free of charge. To date the agency hasn't been able to find us a replacement. That was 6 weeks ago.
This whole debacle has cost us the recruitment fee, the salary costs (without a result) and the cost of doing the job properly by one of our existing developers. All in all we calculated that this "mistake" cost us over £13,000. Something like 80% of the inward calls to our agency are recruitment consultants touting their wares and quite frankly we don't feel comfortable that any of them give us value for money.
We have found from experience that clever, self motivated people are best suited to the organisation. We would want to pay this new developer about £25,000 based on skills and experience. Reporting to the Head of Development the candidate will be responsible for
• Developing code to a fulfill a specified scope of work
• Feed input into the design process
• Feed into the process of constant improvements
They must have a digital agency experience, a good understanding of C#, Ajax, SQL server, XML, web services, CSS level 2, experience of CMS systems (Sitecore CMS would be an advantage). Java websphere and Domino skills would also be desirable, but not essential.
We are now convinced that the way forward is to blog about this and to use the social networks to try to attract our candidate. So if you know anyone who would like to work for us in web development, or can suggest any useful blogs or social sites where we can get in touch with good candidates please let us know by contacting us below.
Obviously this isn't signal for recruitment agencies to get in touch
Location: Greater Manchester, Stockport
Author: Bill Daring
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:29:44 PDT
Category: Development
Tags: css, .net, ajax, xml, web services, c#, sql server and css level 2
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