Do techies need their own headhunter?

Question

Do it yourself

Sawing at work projects on radio engineering and electronics. From time to time we face the problem of finding new hardware engineers, electronics engineers and designers.
Traditional job sites (headhunter, superjob) are gradually disappointing - with a potentially large database, coverage and user-friendly interface, they still give out too much rubbish, it is almost impossible to find a normal specialist in a month. And for a small company without a separate personnel officer, this is a big investment in time and money.
Forums and communities are even worse, there is even less conversion.
So the idea was born - to file an analogue of a headhunter or my circle, but only for techies: without software, web design and managers.
Since the idea was born out of our pain, it seems good by default to many in the team.
I ask for opinions from the outside: how much such a service is needed for job seekers and employers, will we reinvent the wheel (“you won’t do better than a headhunter anyway”), is the target audience too small for project development, won’t the project be initially unprofitable?

Answer 1

audience is small. As for loss, the question is what do you lose. such a project can be done in a couple of evenings, or you can not do it in six months.
but without investing in PR and advertising, it will be difficult to gather people, as HR and applicants will first of all go to the same headhunters and others, as they know them. it will be necessary to somehow actively attract these people from those places where they can now be. IMHO it won't take off by itself. because why does HR register on the site if there are almost no job seekers, and why does applicants register if there is no hr. the classic problem of social networks (why register here if my friends are not here - the same vicious circle).
I think it is not difficult to file such a project, it will be difficult to develop it.

Answer 2

Just usually on the forums, most of this is done.
Offhand :
forum.easyelectronics.ru/viewforum.php?f=21&sid=c3...
monitor.net.ru/forum/forum100.html
monitor.net.ru/forum/forum99.html
radiokot.ru/forum/viewforum. php?f=53
radiokot.ru/forum/viewforum.php?f=54

Answer 3

Hunting of narrowly focused specialists is often found as part of a thematic site.
For example, here you see constantly vacancies on a topic related to a discussion thread.
That is, if you make a "good" site on your topic with a section "looking for a specialist" - _maybe_, it will work, if just a site for finding narrow specialists - it's unlikely.

Answer 4

Hardware engineers are sometimes far from fashionable Internet trends, not to mention the Internet in general, so you first need to figure out what will attract them to this site. An idea can take off provided that the idea is supported by large companies that need engineers, and also the engineers themselves learn about it. All this will require incredible resources, so I’ll just advise you to correctly compose vacancies on HH, describing the main workflow, without going deep into the requirements for the applicant. Why your company needs them, which does this and that. This will be just a shining star among the relatively small number of vacancies in this field. Well, if someone finds to write a couple of interesting technical articles on GT, this will firstly increase the interest of engineers in GT, and secondly, it will create some interest in your company.

Answer 5

Is the target audience too small for the development of the project, will the project initially be unprofitable?

There are no answers to such questions. You can analyze the market and try to predict, but for sure no one will ever tell you what the size of the target audience is and whether the project will be unprofitable.

Answer 6

Of course, you can cut it down, will it be of any use? Who will use it?
It is not clear to me why HH does not like it - with normal filters, the selection of vacancies is normal - well, from the point of view of the applicant.

Answer 7

There is already one: profomotiv.ru.
But as practice shows, the headhunter has the best efficiency. From professional forums (electronics, sugar, and others), there are mainly proposals for remote work.

Answer 8

in the new year, I met the director of an agent who does exactly what hunts techies)))
so I think there is a point.
especially since ordinary hh ask very strange questions (not in the style of Google, but in the style of knowing how to do something, I don’t know what) for specialists in specific areas, I think commentators and the author of the article could come across such questions.

Answer 9

Traditional job sites (headhunter, superjob) are gradually disappointing - with a potentially large database, coverage and user-friendly interface, they still give out too much rubbish, it is almost impossible to find a normal specialist in a month. And for a small company without a separate personnel officer, this is a big investment in time and money.
Forums and communities are even worse, there is even less conversion.

Everything will be the same on a specialized resource.

Answer 10

It hardly makes sense. It is easier, if necessary, to throw a cry in specialized forums. I mean, where the right specialists sit and rub their specialized problems.
And for a systematic solution to the problem, it would not hurt if we had a demand for headhunting. And then everyone and sundry call themselves headhunters, as a result, no one goes further than the usual shifting of profiles from one pile to another.