Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky's Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent

<p>A guide to attracting, recruiting, interviewing, and hiring the best technical talent.</p> <ul> <li>A comprehensive system for hiring top?notch technical employees</li> <li>Packed with useful information and specific advice written in a breezy, humorous style</li> <li>Learn how to find great people—and get them to work for you—in an afternoon!</li> </ul> <p>The top software developers are ten times more productivethan average developers. <i>Ten times</i>. You can’t afford <i>not</i> to hire them. But if you haven’t been reading <b>Joel Spolsky</b>’s books or blog, you probably don’t know how to find them and make them want to work for <i>you</i>.</p> <p>In this brief book, Joel reveals all his secrets—from his years at Microsoft, and as the co?founder of Fog Creek Software—for recruiting the best developers in the world.</p> <p>If you’ve ever wondered what you should be looking for in a resume, if you’ve ever struggled to decide whether to hire someone at the end of an interview, or if you’re wondering why you can’t find great programmers, stop everything and <i>read this book</i>.</p> <p class="null1">Table of Contents</p> <ol> <li>Hitting the High Notes</li> <li>Finding Great Developers</li> <li>A Field Guide to Developers</li> <li>Sorting Resumes</li> <li>The Phone Screen</li> <li>The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing</li> <li>Fixing Suboptimal Teams</li> </ol>

Author(s): Joel Spolsky  

ISBN 10: 1590598385
ISBN 13: 9781590598382
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover
Publication: May 2007
Edition: 1