Finding The Best Tech Candidates

Your company needs a solid tech candidate. Where do you start?

You can put and ad in the newspaper (do they still have those around?).

You can write a detailed account of what you want, share it with HR, then have to rewrite it, share it with management, and have to rewrite it again for the 10th time before you send it to a recruiter who only skims for buzzwords.

Your company can sponsor a SQL Saturday to meet and greet hundreds of potential candidates that you know take their quest for knowledge and growth a step further. A candidate who spends their Saturday attending a tech conference because they WANT to learn, is the candidate YOU want and your company needs!

What is SQL Saturday?

PASS SQL Saturday is a free training event for professionals who use the Microsoft data platform. These community events offer content across data management, cloud and hybrid architecture, analytics, business intelligence, AI, and more.

Big Network, Bigger Reward

When you hire a new person, you not only hire them but you are hiring their entire network! Think about that for a moment.

If you hire me, you get Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman , Grant Fritchey, Brent Ozar, Ginger Grant, Guy in a Cube, Meagan Longoria….the list goes on and on. How do you get them? I am an active member of the SQL community, and these are SOME of the thousands that I follow for answers to questions all companies have at one time or another. I benefit from their knowledge, and your company then benefits from it as well.

The Sacred Unicorn

Every company wants that unicorn. The perfect candidate who knows everything, has experience with every program ever created, can pick up new programs within seconds, and who always has all the answers. Okay, we all know that person doesn’t exist. But, the closest thing is a person who is willing to put effort into their career and spend their Saturdays in a classroom listening to the trials, failures, and successes of those wishing to share their knowledge. Those candidates know that “just because we have always done it that way” is not the answer. Those candidates know that it is more important to do it right rather than just to put a band-aid on it.

How Does Your Company Find These Candidates?

Your company can meet and network with hundreds of potential candidates as well as industry leaders by sponsoring your local SQL Saturday! Where do you start? You start here! https://www.sqlsaturday.com/939/EventHome.aspx

On February 8, 2020 we will have our very first SQL Saturday Austin BI Edition focusing on Business Intelligence, Data Science, Career Development, AI, and more! We are looking for companies who are interested in searching for awesome candidates, companies who would love to share their product with our network, and companies who will support the tech community in providing free technical education to those who seek it.