Do You Scale? It’s Harder in SaaS.
Generally speaking, I think scaling product in SaaS is about 10x easier than consumer internet. Not easy mind you, but 10x easier. Why? Even Salesforce.com only has a tiny fraction of the concurrent sessions of Twitter, let alone Facebook. Your SaaS apps? It will likely barely tax a couple of instances at AWS. I [...]
Why BranchOut is a Better Recruiting Solution than LinkedIn (Hint: It’s Social)
“68 percent of people who understand HTML prefer nonfiction, compared with 48 percent of people in general.” Based on a survey of 44 people who know HTML and 116 people in general. – from Correlated.org Correlated.org is a new site that helps discover unexpected correlations between seemingly unrelated things. It’s fascinating how they develop the [...]
Social Recruiting – 3 Questions Answered
One of the pressing questions surrounding social media these days is it’s applicability to recruiting and other people management processes within an organization. Specifically, there is an ethics debate around how much of the Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter data are employers allowed to discover, request and use in the hiring process. Today I see organizations [...]
Job Posts that Don’t Suck!
Ok, as promised, this is the post with solutions. Job posts should get a prospective candidate excited about a possible gig. Don’t lose top talent the second you post, don’t freak out people and load it up with a “we’re hiring so we just have to throw bait out for all you sucker programmers” type [...]
I’m Not Looking, But These Job Posts Just Suck
BEWARE: This is the beginning of a rant. If you’re temperamental it might piss you off. You’ve been warned, prepare to have a bit of rant with reality thrown on top for good measure. I’m not looking for another gig. I’m extremely happy with what I’m doing right now. The Russell Team I’m working with [...]
Recruiting by Video. Some Get It, Others Just Pretend
Since I just wrote a piece on how your Social Media participation is your new Resume, it’s only appropriate to look at the hiring side, on a lighter note this time. Both myself and Ben picked on a cool video produced as a side-project for Atlassian’s FedEx Day, which I’m sure becomes a perfect recruiting [...]
