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mustafakidd | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: Applicant Tracking + Code Reviews = Simplified Hiring

Hey Folks

We've been cranking on a new project that we're calling Handshake to help companies, especially smaller tech companies, do a better job hiring.

We're still in development right now, but we wanted to get the conversation going with people that we think would benefit from this kind of service. With all of the entrepreneurs and business owners on HN, I'd love to hear what pain points their organizations face when it comes to hiring people.

Handshake comes out of our experience growing an engineering team. Our problems were a lack of formal process that led to disorganization on our part when figuring out things like : Who will review incoming resumes? Who will interview this candidate? What'd we think of them? All the while, of course, coordinating this with our team and getting back to people who applied in a timely way.

If you're like us, you set up an email alias ([email protected]) and had people send you resumes that blast out to a few people on the team. Great start, of course, but you also know that once you have more than one or two people on the email thread it gets tough to have a conversation about or with candidates. Quickly, reviewing these emails becomes a bottle neck in your hiring process, creating context switches throughout the day for your team, lowering productivity. Handshake sits transparently between that email inbox and your team, centralizing all incoming resumes and conversations associated with a job post and giving your company a sane workflow that to help you collaborate on your hiring decisions.

Please sign up for our mailing list if you think your company can benefit from having a tool like Handshake. We'll be sure to reach out to you so you can give the app a trial run once we get closer to release and make sure that we're providing the value you need to help you make great hiring decisions.

http://handshakecentral.com

Thanks everyone!

mustafakidd | 12 years ago | on: Writing in the 21st Century: Essay for Sale

Mr. Kreider's work was linked on the front page recently so I thought it appropriate to 1. expose more people to his work and 2. talk about his idea to try and make a living as a writer in the 21st century by selling his essays at 99cents a pop.

mustafakidd | 12 years ago | on: NeoCities

"We've come full circle"

I love getting old and seeing technology continually reinvent itself.

mustafakidd | 12 years ago | on: Effective Technical Leadership

Great article with many excellent points, especially those about unblocking/blocking - essentially the two main activities you'll participate in to keep a project moving forward. Everything else exists just to serve these two goals, in my opinion.

I'd also add that a great tool that a tech lead can direct is post-mortems (corrections of errors, whatever your company calls them). Effectively leading these discussions improves a company culture, educates individuals both involved and those not involved in sometimes obscure errors, and elevates the team's overall experience level.

Thanks for the write up.

mustafakidd | 13 years ago | on: Do Elite Colleges Discriminate Against Asians?

Isn't it strange that middle easterners have to go through life being treated as non white and dealing with all sorts of social issues around that - especially in the past decade - and yet get no "benefit" when it comes time for admissions?
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