The days of post and pray (put out a job ad and wait for people to apply) are over and we believe that is a good thing. Sure, we still put our vacancies online so people know we are hiring, but that is only the first part of our plan of attack. Let's dig in!

1. Job posting

Goal: get word out that we're hiring for a specific role and have something to refer to.

We post our vacancies on our job page, available in Dutch and English:

Blendle

HR is admin and updates pictures and copy on the overall page. If you have suggestions, please poke them.

The hiring manager is responsible for the vacancy and job description.

If you want to create a new job, duplicate the template (all the way down), rename it and put it on private. You can edit the job by clicking the pencil button.

2. Branding

Goal: long term brand building.

At Blendle we are pretty good at positioning ourselves as a company that knows what they are doing. That’s no coincidence: most of the time we do and we have a lot of smart people working here. That’s the basis of course. But to give that image a hand, think about the following things:

• Write a blog about a cool project you did
• Share/open source pieces of your work for others to use
• Show your face at meetups, try to do a talk every once in a while.
• Stay up to date: don’t forget to invest in reading/listening/watching stuff going on in your field. When sharing something cool you learned by looking at new things: +1!

#achterdeschermen

Goal: brand building and keeping potentially interested people up to date.