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Comment by ldehaan | Hacker News Reader

Using all of these hiring tools is the issue.

They didn't work 20 years ago, still don't work, however interviewing someone like they're a person, asking questions, finding their passion, that has had 100% return for me and my companies.

Word of mouth has been the best way I've been able to hire a lot of really skilled people. My team members have told me many times that I'm the best manager they've ever had.

It's because I don't do anything the way you're supposed to.

Try being a place worth working for and you'll see skilled people show up, and they know how to get ahold of you since they're highly skilled and motivated.

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I'm curious though - if I'm a skilled person who wants to find "a place worth working for" how would I do that? Especially in a remote work world? Most of the places I've worked over the years are smaller and more niche companies and teams that I wouldn't have known to look for if I didn't already know someone working there.

If you're a small company who has tapped out their current team's referral network, how do you get out the word that you're a good place to work, and how would people find out that you're a good place to work?

>If you're a small company who has tapped out their current team's referral network, how do you get out the word that you're a good place to work, and how would people find out that you're a good place to work?

One thing I might do is have a blog which had genuinely interesting content that's both related to what the company does and working there.

Perhaps, but I don't make a habit of reading blogs about jobs I don't currently have from smaller companies. Not that I have anything against them, but you still have a discoverability problem.

I'm not sure what you do besides networking in some form.

But that's the problem though. At that point you either have to have one of the top 10 smartest and most interesting people in your field willing to write for you and bring their clout to it, or you have to have a network already strong enough to bring in the staff you need. It's almost literally impossible for that to be the case outside of a tiny set of companies, and that's why the current hiring system exists.

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