It might be worthwhile leaning recruiting efforts more toward local Meetups than conferences. They're much more casual/informal, provide recurring chances to meet and get to know folks, and it's common for people to pitch each other ideas and opportunities.
Some Bay Area Meetups of direct interest:
* http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-NLP/ * http://www.meetup.com/sf-text/ (run by a friend of mine) * http://www.meetup.com/Elasticsearch-San-Francisco/
Some Meetups are more indirectly related, in that they attract smart/enthusiastic people who like to spend their free time learning and solving problems:
* http://www.meetup.com/sv-jug/ * http://www.meetup.com/sf-php/ * http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-Haskell-Users-Group/ (run by me) * http://www.meetup.com/scala-study-group/ (run by me) * http://www.meetup.com/jsmeetup/ * http://www.meetup.com/oakland-scala/
It goes on and on...
On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Oliver Keyes okeyes@wikimedia.org wrote:
Yeah. I was recently at the NYC R conference; similar problem. Don't get me wrong, there were a lot of recruiting pitches, but the structure of company-led conferences does not, in my (admittedly limited) experience, lend itself to direct recruiting. It absolutely lends itself to making contact with awesome people and chatting to them and 6 months later finding a perfect role for them, buuuut.
On 8 May 2015 at 12:46, Nikolas Everett neverett@wikimedia.org wrote:
Sooooooo I went to the big Elasticsearch conference and made an effort to reach out for recruiting. It didn't really work out well. Maybe I'm just
bad
at it.
If there is someone in SF and its not super expensive then I don't object but we have to think of these as opportunities to make contacts rather
than
recruiting.
On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Moiz Syed msyed@wikimedia.org wrote:
It would be worthwhile for someone to go just for recruiting purposes alone.
On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 4:20 AM, Wes Moran wmoran@wikimedia.org wrote:
May be interesting - let me know if you plan to attend https://openair2015.com
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