Hi Barry,

I'd be willing to help.

I interviewed around 20 devs last year for Java and PHP roles and hired 4.

Cheers,

Chris

On Mon, May 18,[masked]:40, Barry Cranford wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
>
> I wonder if you could help me with something. Earlier in the year we ran
> an event which was called 'Cracking That Interview’. It was an event
> designed to help developers understand directly from hiring managers what
> they look for in interviews. We have been offered a venue on the 4th June
> to repeat this event so I wanted to find out if we had ex or current
> hiring managers that would be interested in coming along to share their
> experiences on what *you* look for when you are interviewing candidates.
>
> If you personally have hired developers in the past (doesn’t matter if
> you’re not currently recruiting) **and you are free on the evening of the
> 4th June** and would be open to share your experience then let me know on
> [address removed]. If I hear from enough people to make this event a
> success, we’ll put the event on the Meetup site ASAP.
>
> Please feel free to share your experience if you came to the last event…
>
>
>
> Here is the original email which explains the point in full:
>
>
> "As recruiters we speak to clients every day and very often we hear about
> all the things that candidates do wrong in interviews. The LJC associates
> (organisation committee) were recently discussing the subject of
> interviews and the idea of putting on an event to help developers
> understand interviews from a hiring managers perspective... so this is
> exactly what we’re going to do.
>
> The event will be on the Meetup site shortly but in the meantime I am
> interested to hear from people that have interviewed developers in a
> hiring position in the past. It doesn’t matter if you are not hiring at
> the moment, or don’t have plans to - we are interested in people that
> have interviewed in the past. Please email me directly on
> [address removed] and I can discuss details moving forward.
>
> The event will be based around helping developers understand what hiring
> managers look for in interviews and how people’s opinions vary in this so
> we are looking for 5-10 hiring managers that have been in hiring
> positions in the past and would be happy to sit down and discuss their
> opinions. It is a highly subjective subject so we feel the best way to do
> this is to give developers a chance to speak to lots of different hiring
> managers so it will run like a typical Meet a Mentor event in which
> you’ll get a chance to hear opinions from all the hiring managers at the
> event in small groups.
>
> This event will be focused around learning NOT recruitment/matchmak­ing
> so, again, it is not important whether you are hiring now or have plans
> to, what is important is that you have interviewed and hired people in
> the past and have strong opinions on what makes a good and bad interview.
>
>
> Thanks in advance for your help, any thoughts or questions let me know.
>
>
> Kind regards,
> Barry"
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