I'm in the exciting but scary position that my company has got an agreement to provide a small team to create some software for a client. I've kind of done this before, subcontracting work to freelancers, but am hoping to step it up a notch in the "serious business" front - hire 2 or 3 contractors properly for 2-3 months.
Because it's all done remotely, I can look across the world for people and have used this method before (if you are hiring individuals and doing proper interviews you can find decent programmers in Asia, as compared to outsourcing to an offshore company). But I don't want to rule out hiring one person from UK/US/EU to be slightly higher up the hierarchy tree.
jobs.joelonsoftware.com attracts people from all over the world (mainly western world but not only) but obviously it's not the main source of contracts in the UK - it focuses on companies advertising direct. I wondered if people here include it in their searches, of if Jobserve is the only reliable way to reach a wide majority of UK people? The issue is, a couple of hundred quid here and there on several sites soon mounts up so I want to minimise the number of adverts I need to place.
Do you know it exists? Do you monitor it?
Because it's all done remotely, I can look across the world for people and have used this method before (if you are hiring individuals and doing proper interviews you can find decent programmers in Asia, as compared to outsourcing to an offshore company). But I don't want to rule out hiring one person from UK/US/EU to be slightly higher up the hierarchy tree.
jobs.joelonsoftware.com attracts people from all over the world (mainly western world but not only) but obviously it's not the main source of contracts in the UK - it focuses on companies advertising direct. I wondered if people here include it in their searches, of if Jobserve is the only reliable way to reach a wide majority of UK people? The issue is, a couple of hundred quid here and there on several sites soon mounts up so I want to minimise the number of adverts I need to place.
Do you know it exists? Do you monitor it?
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