Hi folks,
After my friends kept asking me how we hire such great talent at a fair salary (to us and the developers), I decided to commercialize it.
Basically, we built a bunch of crawlers around the net to find top notch devs, and we then email those devs with a nice, enticing offer.
The conversion rates are surprisingly good -- we've been able to hire all of our development team this way, and absolutely swear by it.
We have used TalentDraft and it's really sweet. I write up an email, tell them I want a Rails developer - and within a few days I've pretty much already hired someone.
Wizardshot
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