Ep. 004 of Underserved, Drafting the varsity team

Underserved

Andrew Gelina

Society & Culture, Technology

5.0 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week's guest is Colin Reposa, VP of Resource Management from Syrinx Consulting. Colin's job is to match up technologists with the needs clients have for building teams. It sounds simple on paper but there is a lot to doing it right! Colin talks about the evolution of job boards (and why he rarely uses them nowadays), getting an employer to allow you to work remote, and how contract-to-hire has become more popular and more possible than before.

Some tools and topics Colin mentions:

LinkedIn Recruiter https://business.linkedin.com/talent-solutions/recruiter

Changes to H1B visas in 2019 https://www.forbes.com/sites/andyjsemotiuk/2019/01/02/recent-changes-to-the-h1b-visa-program-and-what-is-coming-in-2019

What is an RFE? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_For_Evidence

A still-relevant article on JS Framework longevity: https://www.bitovi.com/blog/longevity-or-lack-thereof-in-javascript-frameworks

The brutal lifecycle of JS frameworks https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/01/11/brutal-lifecycle-javascript-frameworks/

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this week's edition of underserved the podcast for the rest of the
0:11.6	tech industry I'm your host Andrew
0:13.6	Jalina. I am lucky this week to be joined by Colin Reposa, VP of
0:19.3	resource management at CERrings Consulting. He's the guy in charge of finding everyone when
0:25.2	Syrinx needs to expand and bring more technologists on board. So Colin,
0:29.6	welcome.
0:30.6	Happy to be here. Thank you for having me, Andrew. You've been recruiting for quite a while, a lot of it at CERinks, but you were even before CERinks, but in a different industry. What was that like kind of coming into the tech industry? Correct. I had done building engineering.
0:44.7	So architecture, mechanical, HVAC, plumbing,
0:50.1	much different, let's put it that way.
0:52.1	Much, much different.
0:53.4	Sounds it.
0:54.4	Yeah, that was much more of a, it's funny because the pay rates were actually similar.
1:00.4	We were looking for high-level building architects. So we've as you and I both know we hire a lot of people outside of the tech industry and it's it's a challenge. It's a ramp up when they're coming from staffing where it's commercial in a
1:14.0	warehouse and it's just a completely different type of skill set type of person type of
1:19.0	type of you say for a recruiter or a salesperson. Correct.
1:23.0	Exactly.
1:24.0	Exactly.
1:25.0	So that takes time.
1:27.0	So I was lucky enough that I was already dealing with very high-level skilled laborer.
1:31.0	So it helped me definitely in this industry being able to pick up software development
1:37.2	skill sets and figure out the difference between dot net and Java and JavaScript and that was it was good that I had that recruiting
1:46.2	exposure before. And then you did the boot camp where you come in and kind of
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