Joris Luijke has lead the People Teams of fast growing software companies including Atlassian, Squarespace. Now, he is the cofounder of Pyn.
All in Recruitment
My title is somewhat misleading, I wouldn't necessarily consider all 2000 applicants to be 'high quality,’ but at least 150 were very strong engineers and designers. We only needed five new employees, so the number of applicants enabled us to be extremely selective.
In February, we launched our "Be A Part Of It" recruitment campaign which introduced four significant changes to our recruiting process with amazing results!
Just before I left Atlassian to start my new adventure with Squarespace in NYC, I was asked to help develop a short video that explained the role that software plays in our daily lives. The video was showed during the annual Atlassian Summit.
During this time of the year, lot’s of organizations are thinking about bring on interns or graduates. How can you develop a program that fits your values. We found it is important that these young folks were inducted in our culture quickly.
Seth Godin explains that many organisations or people have great ideas. If you get your idea to spread wider, you will win (even if your or idea is similar to your competitors). Hiring is no different. You have to get your ideas to speak and reach a wide audience in order to attract the best. Our goal is that ‘every software engineer find out about our jobs’. We realized that with our small team we couldn’t rely on direct search, nor do we have budget for large scale advertising.
