Are you considering hiring developers and you need a way to ensure that they actually add value to your team? In many cases that’s easier said than done and you need to find a way to make it happen for you and your team.
Here are some factors for you to take under advisement to ensure that you get real value added to your team when you are hiring Dev people.
The Hard Skills When you are hiring any development person you need to know a lot about their hard skills. These are the job specific things that they are going to need in order to allow them to succeed in their position. Every candidate is going to require the essential hard skills in order to add value to your team and in order to perform well.
Add the Soft Skills. Things like communication and leadership—the ability to get along well with others and to be a real team player are the soft skills you should be lookingfor. These are imperative when it comes to adding value to your team. Getting someone who doesn’t get along with others or who isn’t a good team player can do far more damage than good even if they are a stellar developer.
Ask the candidate for employee referrals.
If you’ve ever had a problem with an employee who was not the best fit, the way to get around that and past it is to be sure that the people who worked with them were good workers and got along well with the team . Ask them for a team mate who was part of their day to day world and find out what they have to say about them before you offer to go any further with the hiring process.
These are just some small tips that can help you to ensure that you add value to your development team and that you get the kind of team that you want.