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Recruiting Software Developers a Survey of Current Russian Practices

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Proceedings of 6th International Conference in Software Engineering for Defence Applications (SEDA 2018)

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ((AISC,volume 925))

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Abstract

Software is mostly a “people” business: the single and most important asset of a software company is its developers. Finding an appropriate software developer is a problem that has created the whole area (and business) of IT recruiting, which is mostly an “art” involving a set of practical techniques and approaches. This paper discusses the typical practices of IT recruiting in Russia. Our aim is to describe its baseline from the point of view of its practitioners and to study ways to improve it. To achieve this aim we conducted a survey among more than 70 professional recruiters, we analysed the results, and we have identified mechanisms to improve it, also partially automating it. The results of our research appear to be applicable and beneficial for professionals and researchers living in several other parts of the world, given the evident similarity of the market structure.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    http://www.michaelpage.co.uk/minisite/most-in-demand-professions/.

  2. 2.

    Jobvite, http://www.jobvite.com; LinkedinTalent, https://business.linkedin.com/talent-solutions.

  3. 3.

    These three point are clearly represent the most significant goals in IT recruiting.

  4. 4.

    At the time of the survey web-site of LinkedIn was available in Russia.

  5. 5.

    For instance, one of respondents wrote “In general, it takes 3–4 days, but it does not happen in a moment: first, forming an application, then discuss it, then generate job description, then correct it, then after first interviews correct job description again”.

  6. 6.

    TAdviser survey of Russian IT market http://tadviser.ru/a/53628.

  7. 7.

    https://medium.com/@hoffa/github-top-countries-201608-13f642493773.

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    Vladimir Ivanov, Sergey Masyagin, Marat Mingazov & Giancarlo Succi

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Ivanov, V., Masyagin, S., Mingazov, M., Succi, G. (2020). Recruiting Software Developers a Survey of Current Russian Practices. In: Ciancarini, P., Mazzara, M., Messina, A., Sillitti, A., Succi, G. (eds) Proceedings of 6th International Conference in Software Engineering for Defence Applications. SEDA 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 925. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14687-0_10

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