This is a guest article published by TalentVine on behalf of SoftwareSeni. To learn more about the outsourcing services provided by SoftwareSeni, click here.
One of the best parts of helping founders and businesses build out products and solutions is watching them grow as they meet with success. With success comes increased options. They can do more. And one of the things they do is double down on their success and expand their team to increase momentum.
And, like anyone looking to add software developers to their headcount, they want to expand their team as quickly and effectively as possible.
Which is where SoftwareSeni comes in.
Unlocking a Dedicated Recruitment Firm
Once you are working with one of our software development team extensions, you’ve basically unlocked your own recruitment firm. When you want to grow your team we have a full set of talent selection options we can pursue on your behalf.
Our primary source is our in-house talent pool. Having so many projects running at once means there is a constant flow of available talent as projects reach completion and new projects are scheduled.
This source of proven tech talent is our go-to. We fill most of our clients’ team extension developer demand from this group.
We provide candidate profiles to our clients who then decide who they would like to interview and we assist with any testing that might be part of their selection process.
But depending on expertise – a client may be looking for a JavaScript developer but we only have C# developers on stand-by – we may need to go outside our active staff to our secondary source – our talent pool.
Swimming In The Talent Pool
The talent pool is our pre-screened candidates that have expressed an interest in working with SoftwareSeni (and our clients) but we haven’t found a good match for their skill base or their experience level. We really mean it when we tell applicants that we will keep their CV on file.
For high demand skills we may find that we need to go to the market. This is one of the greatest benefits of working with a team extension provider like SoftwareSeni – our recruitment experience. Not only do our clients get our 15 years of hiring experience, they get it for free. Because the teams we build for our clients are just a small part of the team we are constantly growing at SoftwareSeni.
When we go to market to find talent we use a complete recruitment process:
- Filtering candidates
- Vetting (police checks, reference checks)
- Testing
- Interview and screen by HR
- Interviews by our Tech Leads
It is only once these steps have been completed that we provide a shortlist of candidates to our clients, and from that shortlist they can select who they would like to talk to or put through their own selection process.
And because we are focused on getting our clients the perfect developers, if incompatibilities do appear with a candidate in the all important first 30 days, we simply go through the entire process again, no questions asked.
This mismatch between candidate and team is quite rare. Our selection process helps, but a major contributing factor is our developer-side management.
Behind The Scenes Support
Unlike remote workers and freelancers, our team extension developers are provided full support by our support managers in Yogyakarta and Bandung, Indonesia. Unless there is a client-requested arrangement in place, all of our developers work out of our central offices. This gives them access to technical support, training, and the rest of the organisational support you would expect. Like recruitment, this is all behind-the-scenes infrastructure our clients can rely on without needing to worry about.
Clients can also have peace-of-mind when it comes to our staff sourcing and working conditions. It goes without saying that we are in full compliance with the Modern Slavery Act and require our full supply chain to be compliant.
All of our staff have the full benefits required in Indonesia, including holiday and annual leave, sick leave, parental leave, and retirement benefits, along with training and development tailored to each staff member.
Play To Your Strengths While We Play To Ours
Finding and hiring developers is hard. By offloading the time and cost of developer recruitment from our clients, we’re helping everyone play to their strengths.
This facet of our services has proven effective time and again, allowing our clients to scale their development capabilities and capitalise on success without the usual growing pains. It’s a winning solution that is core to SoftwareSeni’s offerings, making tech team expansion as straightforward and efficient as possible for our clients.
