When you’re building a digital solution as sophisticated as OMRT’s, it’s important to get the best developers on board. However, the time, energy and money it takes to find them is like banging your head against a wall.

If there’s one thing we’ve learned from COVID-19, it’s that working from home has actually proved very manageable, and the cloud of assumptions surrounding distributed teams have been set straight. This pandemic has already defined the future of work, and while the crisis will surely end, the trend towards remote work will not.

We have quickly learned how much of a struggle it is to take our company culture and all the rituals we enjoyed and upload them to an online workspace. It’s not quite the same, is it? We can’t really identify what makes our company different from the next, and that’s just one station away from ‘why do I even work here in the first place?’ When the humanised element of work is stripped away, engagement suffers, culture and morale take a hit, and that’s when a team and the company begins to suffer from lower productivity and employee satisfaction.

As recruiters, we’ve all experienced the heartbreak of a newly hired employee leaving after only a short time. Sometimes we’re left wondering what happened, and other times it’s quite clear, but the resulting frustrations are almost always the same. As we scramble to restart the hiring process and find a replacement, we often ask ourselves: is there something we could have done differently?

Tech recruitment can be tough, for employers and developers alike. Employers often have to send hundreds of messages and get few responses, while developers have to read through dozens of generic messages. Here at Honeypot, we want to change tech recruitment, for the better, and make sure companies can easily connect with the best tech talents from around the globe.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock or quite simply have no interest in business, the chances are you’ve heard about the NOAH18 Conference and know this year’s Berlin edition took place on the 6th-7th of June at the Tempodrom!

18… That’s the number of emails I’ve received so far today from companies updating their privacy policy and terms of service. For what it’s worth though, I’m not complaining. I mean, all these privacy updates are in our best interests as consumers and web users, right? Plus we sent out our own GDPR email last night so we’d hate to be hypocrites! 😂

Back in 2004, a Google search of the term “employer branding” would have yielded 3000 hits. Today that number is well over 2 million.

Employer branding is quite evidently gaining greater strategic importance with each passing day, but what’s it all about exactly?

Running a developer conference is challenging. Really challenging.

But I’m lucky. I ran GraphQL Europe 2017 with a team of four people who care deeply about GraphQL and were determined to create a special event.

This article is a guide - and a reflection - on what it took for us to plan, organize and execute Europe’s first GraphQL-dedicated conference. We got a lot of help along the way and my intention is to opensource the knowledge we inherited, picked up and learnt.

We’ve put together a curated list of the best HR events in the Netherlands in 2018. Without further ado, here they are:

The start of the year is the perfect time to plan your events schedule for 2018. Learning from experts and networking with peers is the best way to keep up to date on all areas of Human Resources and Talent Acquisition, from sourcing, staffing and recruiting to onboarding, analytics, performance management, employer branding and everything in between. This article summarizes our top picks for HR and Talent Acquisiton events in Germany in 2018.

Hiring developers is tough, especially for HR people coming from non-technical backgrounds. Getting up to speed on all the frameworks, programming languages and tools that developers use can take months. But knowing key developer terminology and associating it with the skillset of the developer is a huge advantage and will speed up the hiring process. That’s why we created this concise technical HR cheat sheet with a list of backend and frontend languages and their respective frameworks and testing tools.

Right now, many cities in the EU have exciting tech scenes. While London and Berlin may be the most prominent destinations for developers looking to work with startups, the Netherlands is fast becoming an attractive destination. Understanding the Dutch visa process for developers is important for those looking to work in the city.

With the rise of the Internet of things (IoT), autonomous driving, and robotics, low level firmware and embedded engineering skills are becoming more and more relevant, particularly in Germany. Writing embedded software requires very different skills from enterprise or application software development. To celebrate the new filter for embedded engineers on Honeypot, we prepared six questions you always wanted to know about embedded engineers, but were too afraid to ask.

We talk to hundreds of developers each week. Over the course of 2016, we have gathered lots of interesting information about salaries, job expectations and technical preferences. We bundled it all together into this handy blog post so that your developer hiring in 2017 is smoother than ever.

Have you ever wondered how software is built? Here is an attempt to explain software development by using an analogy with theatre. Let’s imagine we have a theatre production to stage and a software product to launch. The theatre art has some surprising similarities with software development.

DevOps is a pretty new term, which makes hiring DevOps engineers a little challenging. The term “DevOps” first appeared in 2008, as part of a movement to bring greater collaboration between developers and IT professionals while improving software delivery.

Type “what is DevOps” into Google and a staggering amount of results show. Considering DevOps is a relatively new term and job function in IT, there still seems to be some confusion among non-technical professionals as to what the role involves. This blog post gives a history of DevOps, provides a short comparison to System Admin, and finishes off with a glossary of DevOps terms.

At Honeypot, we want to make tech recruitment better for both companies and developers. We receive constructive feedback from developers about various recruiting process on a daily basis. We have picked our seven most frequently occurring points, which can help you improve your tech recruitment, today!

Summer is a great time to catch up on some reading. Why not spend your time reading something inspirational that will help you shape a productive and positive work environment? We compiled a list of books that we believe every modern HR professional should read.

Honeypot is a developer-focused job platform. We are changing tech recruitment to make it better for developers and better for companies. How are we doing that? Check out our infographic to see…

If you haven’t so far, it might be the right time to think about hiring junior developers. With the help of the Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB) you can now get a grant to support your new “Innovationsassistent”.

Ever wondered where the developers using Honeypot come from?

Hiring someone for a technical web development role is a huge challenge, and when it comes to complex and fast-moving roles like frontend development, even if the interviewer is experienced in that field they may not be caught up on the latest tricks, techniques, and problems.

Hiring developers is hard. Really hard. And it’s hard for many reasons. It’s not just the scarcity of good developers that’s challenging, it’s also the difficulty of understanding their skills, judging their code, measuring cultural fit, and on and on it goes.