[Do you have a work trial? This will be a deal breaker for many]
Based on your conversations with developers, do you have a rough guess at what % this is a deal breaker for?
I’m curious if this is typically specific to an in-person work trial, vs how much deal-breaking would be avoided by a remote trial, e.g. 3 days Sat-Mon.
do you have a rough guess at what % this is a deal breaker for?
It’s less of “%” and more of “who will this intimidate”.
Many of your top candidates will (1) currently be working somewhere, and (2) will look at many EA aligned jobs, and if many of them require a work trial then that could be a problem.
(I just hired someone who was working full time, and I assume if we required a work trial then he just wouldn’t be able to do it without quitting)
Easy ways to make this better:
If you have flexibility (for example, whether the work trial is local or remote, or when it is, or something else), then say that in the job post.
It was common for me to hear that candidates didn’t even apply because of something like that which is written as a strict requirement, and then for me to hear from an employer that they didn’t really care about it.
If your candidates will feel comfortable talking to you and telling you about things like this, and then you can find a solution together—I imagine that would be great.
Also, some candidates will WANT a work trial to see how the job actually is. I asked for a work trial in my current job.
Also, CEA does work trials. You could ask them how it goes. (But they won’t hear about people who didn’t even apply, I guess)
Based on your conversations with developers, do you have a rough guess at what % this is a deal breaker for?
I’m curious if this is typically specific to an in-person work trial, vs how much deal-breaking would be avoided by a remote trial, e.g. 3 days Sat-Mon.
It’s less of “%” and more of “who will this intimidate”.
Many of your top candidates will (1) currently be working somewhere, and (2) will look at many EA aligned jobs, and if many of them require a work trial then that could be a problem.
(I just hired someone who was working full time, and I assume if we required a work trial then he just wouldn’t be able to do it without quitting)
Easy ways to make this better:
If you have flexibility (for example, whether the work trial is local or remote, or when it is, or something else), then say that in the job post.
It was common for me to hear that candidates didn’t even apply because of something like that which is written as a strict requirement, and then for me to hear from an employer that they didn’t really care about it.
If your candidates will feel comfortable talking to you and telling you about things like this, and then you can find a solution together—I imagine that would be great.
Also, some candidates will WANT a work trial to see how the job actually is. I asked for a work trial in my current job.
Also, CEA does work trials. You could ask them how it goes. (But they won’t hear about people who didn’t even apply, I guess)