By utilizing a scalable IT hiring strategy, your company can consistently find, source and hire talented candidates in a timely and effective manner, while living up to your quality and culture values. 

Why Scaling IT Hiring is Important

Delays in hiring result in delayed product launches, increased technical debt, and increased burden on employees - lowering morale and retention.

By developing a scalable hiring engine you can react to growth, pivot if necessary, and take advantage of opportunities without sacrificing the quality or alignment of the new hires.

Primary Issues to look for

• As you set out to develop (or improve) your hiring machine, you will want to be conscious of common pain points so you don't fall into traps:
• Dedicated and scarce talent for specific technical areas.
• Long candidate pipelines and required to hire fast, or hire for urgent needs and not for fit.
• Inconsistent interviewing / evaluation processes, resulting in inconsistent hiring quality.
• Poor alignment of hiring managers, HR, and product/engineering teams.
• Poor employer brand and candidate experience that turns off passive candidates.

Final Thoughts

Scaling IT hiring is not just about hiring more people; it is about hiring the right people in a faster way while maintaining culture, quality and engagement.

That said, think about you hiring process as a product. It requires iterations, measuring and continuous improvement.

With proper planning, technology, standardization and care for people - both candidates and the internal team, you can build a hiring engine that scales with your aspirations, rather than in spite of it.