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Agile Hiring 14th Edition
Author(s): Sean Landis (Author)
- Publisher: Artima Inc
- Publication Date: 31 Mar. 2011
- Edition: 14th
- Language: English
- Print length: 213 pages
- ISBN-10: 0981531636
- ISBN-13: 9780981531632
Book Description
Hiring software professionals is a difficult problem, but few books exist on this topic. This book presents a fresh approach that is tested by fire: developed by the author in over twenty years of experience hiring software professionals at both small companies and large. Drawing on principles from the ?agile? software movement, this book offers a different way to think about hiring.Agile Hiring helps with hardest parts of hiring process: reviewing resumes, phone screens, and on-site interviews. It is a desktop reference, designed so that everyone involved in the hiring process can use and benefit from the book. It is also a valuable resource for somebody looking for a job.
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From the Back Cover
Hiring software professionals is a difficult problem, but few books exist on this topic. This book presents a fresh approach that is tested by fire: developed by the author in over twenty years of experience hiring software professionals at both small companies and large. Drawing on principles from the agile software movement, this book offers a different way to think about hiring.Agile Hiring helps with hardest parts of hiring process: reviewing resumes, phone screens, and on-site interviews. It is a desktop reference, designed so that everyone involved in the hiring process can use and benefit from the book. It is also a valuable resource for somebody looking for a job.
About the Author
Sean Landis is a software architect with over twenty years of experience hiring software professionals, has hired in companies with less than ten developers and ones with thousands. He successfully retooled hiring practices at three companies, leading to significant improvements in the quality and quantity of new hires. Sean is a practicing software professional who today practices agile development and has innovatively applied agile principles to hiring.
