How to Find and Grow Your Own DevOps Talent Pool

Paul Speers@Paul_Speers

www.speerhead.dk

Tech Entrepreneur & Start Up JunkieHired over 2000 People

Created over £50m shareholder value.

I’ve been a Dev and an Op

Mark Andreessen & Opsware

Founded Speerhead to help Open SourceVendors expand in Europe

International Offices. Pleasure to be here today.

I LoveCreatingBusinessesanddevelopingpeople

The European DevOps Market•  Candidate driven market

•  Contract Roles increasing month on month•  Salaries rising

•  Zero unemployment•  Not enough experience & talent

• Traditional Ads & job boards have high failure rate

DevOps people…

Corporates and the hiring challenges

Lack of understanding and Job Specs are sparse and unconvincing

The HR process is out of date and not suitable

They are interviewed TOO! Hiring is Selling!

Where are the Change Wizards & Mentors from the Company?

Traditional Approaches – Don’t Work!•  Top people always working

•  Hopeless Spamming on LinkedIn-  Bad Emails just create noise…..

-  On average DevOps folk are being ‘hit’ twice a day-  Moving away off LinkedIn-  Poor Job Specs a killer for DevOps folk

•  ‘Spray and Prey’ approach is having an effect on thecommunity

•  Job boards response - Really! Honestly - DevOps!

Candidate: Hiring Manager:

Career Prospects Hire the RockstarCool Organisation Project deadlines

Great people BudgetsGood Projects New SkillsCool Tools

Salary Rise

HR:

Cultural FitRisk

Skills/CompetencyBudgets

Timescales

Recruiter:

Salary Increase =More fees

Excite theCandidate

Place 4 times ayear.Relationship – BTW!

DevOps Hiring Silos

Build a Culture of Engagement•  Who cares about my development?•  Do I get to do what I love every day?•  Can I do what I do best - everyday?

Culture

•  Corps find your magic people in the company-  Who will enthral and excite the candidate ?

-  Could it be the CTO/CIO-  Who will buddy the short list?

-  The new language of Open Source & DevOps-  How will you Woo the candidate

-  Job Spec and Company Website just don’t do itI’m afraid!

-  Over Communicate in the process

Some things we do to Help…

•  Networked and Profiled over 15,000 DevOps folk•  Create & Manage Virtual Talent pools for Vendors •  All profiles with personality & soft skills

….and finally Grow your Own

Takes four talented development grads, geeks…..cool IT folk needing a career path….

Imagine a Service that…..

….Add a 100Kg of willing Corporations or IT Company's….

….Stir in to mix ….. 6 months of Training…..on and off the job.

Mentorship, Soft skills, Process, Tooling Training

Take out the oven after 6 months and let them loose……

Our DevOps Academy – Needs you

Creating the syllabus

Placement Mentoring

Launching 2015…