The modern software developer recruiter: providing no value at a very high cost.

1. Industry Thieves
THE MODERN SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT RECRUITER
PROVIDING NO VALUE AT A VERY HIGH COST

2. Who are they?
 Business majors
 NFC Cheerleaders
 Car salespeople
 Non technical people of any sort

3. What do they do?
 Nothing
 Encourage developers to leave perfectly good employment utilizing
various tactics
 Business development
 Catalyze the “developer cycle”
 Encourage dishonesty in representation
 Finance wages for employers

4. What do they claim?
 Highly specific technical screening
 Any job they know of is better than your job
 Anything but what they actually do

5. What is our message?
 Business: You do not need them: they provide no value and add
considerable cost
 Developers: You do not need them: developers are sparse and
needs are abundant
 Everyone: We have a long term solution, we need your help and
participation with the above and more to succeed

6. Take action
 Help us start to break the developer cycle
 Preregister at breakthedevcycle.com (live 11/2013)
 Educate your leaders and human resource people on using job boards
like dice, stackoverflow, careerbuilder
 Realize that while it may be difficult now there are only so many
developers; consider mentoring, internships, career fairs
 Build your network on linkedin
 You have the same if not greater access to the pool of developers in
existence, your people are more qualified to develop
requirements, screen candidates, and interview; recruiters don’t do any
of these things now anyways

7. How can we help?
 We Develop Software
 We will not focus on business development, but will focus on people
 We mentor and encourage those interested in software
development already
 We recognize that development is and has been the fastest
growing field for years: this coupled with the low supply and
premium of recruiters is pushing jobs overseas
 This usually results in an even higher cost
 We will actually help both parties as we have the ability to provide
the services technical recruiters currently lie about

8. Thank You!
We look forward to a revolution.