Hire In Reverse

In a transforming global landscape, traditional hiring methods are inadequate.

The key to success lies in valuing and understanding people, nurturing a cohesive team culture, and adopting comprehensive, transparent interview practices that prioritize human attributes alongside skills. 

This shift is imperative to attract, retain, and satisfy modern candidates, as ignoring these human factors leads to inefficiencies, dissatisfaction, and mistrust, ultimately requiring a new strategic approach to hiring. 

Hire In Reverse offers solutions that encompass targeted candidate searches and proactive pipeline development, addressing the evolving demands of effective team building.

Contact: jonathan@hireinreverse.com

Hiring Strategist | Founder | Technical Leadership Recruiter - Software Industry

Stealth

Work with founders to assemble initial team following seed funding.  Project Complete.

Fractional Head of Talent

Investment Portfolio

Assembled a small group of investors to purchase, renovate and remarket houses during high growth period in Austin, Texas

Diversion – Rehab and Renovation 

Confidential (In stealth mode)

Co-Founder

Staff at Will - Search Consultancy

- Provided onsite and off site contract and retained recruiting services.
- Served in a variety of capacities within high-growth VC funded start-ups; staffing manager, outbound sourcing recruiter, high-volume recruiter
- Worked closely with hiring managers to define open roles, advertise, screen, interview and manage cycle through onboarding
- Saved hiring managers untold hours by providing key resources for time-sensitive hires
-Staffing experience at all levels from entry to c-staff, all departments; spanning industries, languages and international locals; Asia, Europe

Contract Technical Recruiter | Staffing Manager

Misc 

Technical Recruiter

US Army

Network Installation & Support & Administration

11 WORDS
I help leaders find the hiring equivalent to product-market-fit.

GAME CHANGED
Remember when hiring was annoying, but doable?  Post, slog, wrong fits, frustration. Need more pipe, throw money at it.

Things are changing.  Workforce is different.  Old ways don’t work. Impossibly, hiring seems even more competitive.

Deep down, we’re not even sure our good hires are ok, ‘cause many just don’t make.

It's not the pipeline, nor your interview technique. It's how you THINK about hiring, people and culture.

It's easy to mindlessly slip into treating people more like hardware. But, selecting based on skills alone is destroying our culture, and leaving us with skilled people who don’t fit. 

THE NEW STRATEGY
Hire the right people by giving them meaningful work, learning, growth and impact.  It requires less friction; and creates a team culture that fosters strong bonds, based on trust and respect.

Reality: HR initiatives that fabricate respect and pretend to be unbiased, have the opposite effect.

Don't see it? It's ok. They do. It's your blind spot.

The problem is hiring process that fails to attract, and can’t dependably assess fit.

This feeling of disrespect causes good candidates to opt-out early, even some despite the fact they need a job.  

RULES DON’T DEFY LOGIC
Don’t think a list of skills will attract today’s workforce. And unlike in the past, they won’t stay if the role’s not a fit. 

The key is to understand the human factors at play.

And interview candidates from a from a full 360° vantagepoint. 

LEVERAGE HUMAN NATURE

There’s little chance of getting good results with incomplete data.  

Hiring that builds successful teams requires “two” not “one” well informed decision.

Interviews that aren’t transparent, intentionally withholding details because I think I can “sell them” into the job, is a recipe for recruiting-caused-problems. 

Strategy backfire!

It’s time to consider what ‘you’re not saying’, is communicating.  Because see it or not, the message is clear! 


CONSULTANCY -- NOT AGENCY
Dedicated Search - is done-for-you, full slate of ‘qualified’ candidates and assessment optimization.

Personal Pipeline Alchemy - is a top secret, done-with-you, service where we position you to hire-at-will for future positions with a pre-built passive pipeline. [It’s not what you think, it’s better.]

MY EXPERIENCE
- Top agency recruiter; support hyper growth startups
- Built numerous VC startups, as insider; variety TA roles 
- 26 years helping software leaders build cohesive teams

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Jonathan Schultz

SailPoint

Engage with users in the Developer Community gathering feedback and liaising with internal support, product management, and engineering teams

Review and edit Developer Community technical blog submissions

Manage and host Developer Community livestream program

Maintain public facing API documentation

Present at in-person workshops and virtual conferences

Senior Developer Advocate 

Delivered training to customers, partners, and internal employees both in-person and remote

Developed training curriculum including exercise guides and elearning content

Provided technical guidance and expertise to curriculum development team as SME

Developed stand-alone technical training content and delivered by webinar

Answered community forum questions and created technical wiki articles

Wrote automation scripts which increased efficiency of student environment configuration by 50%

Trained internal and external partner instructors in train the trainer program

Wrote, reviewed, and maintained technical certification exam content

Customer Technical Trainer

Smartwebs, Inc.

Utilized MSSQL and T-SQL to analyze internal and external data issues

Investigated and resolved integration issues with back end systems

Communicated complex technical scenarios to clients in understandable terms

Interfaced with other teams and 3rd party system support staff to resolve client issues

Contributed to internal documentation

Trained colleagues on internal processes and database configuration

Completed custom client projects from design to implementation

Continually refined existing processes and improvised new ones to increase departmental efficiency

Participated in interview process of new team members

Data and Integration Analyst

Configured database for new client roll outs and existing client account requests

Utilized knowledge of MSSQL and TSQL to troubleshoot data issues

Refined existing processes and improvised new ones to increase departmental efficiency

Voluntarily took on additional responsibilities to free up other team members as resources for critical projects

Investigated and resolved integration issues with back end systems

Guided clients to solutions by phone and email

Contributed to internal documentation

Participated in interview process of new team members

Technical Operations Specialist

Rebel with a Camera

Developed and maintained responsive websites in PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, WordPress

Created SEO optimized blog content

Provided excellent customer service by phone and email

Successfully booked 30% of total sales by phone only

Managed client relationships with CRM software

Photographed weddings and portraits

Edited digital images with Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop

Managed social media accounts

Developed online marketing strategy

Built extensive business referral network over 11 years in Austin market

Took active leadership role  in professional networking groups

Successfully utilized Google Apps to increase business efficiency

Web Developer, Photographer, Marketing Director

Beyond Technology, Inc.

Developed custom test applications in Visual Basic for large defense contractors

Granted Secret security clearance

Software Engineer

Line9 LLC

Rescued company from dire emergency as only remaining employee; worked 80 hour weeks to complete slated software release

Interfaced with a former employee who was out of hand to repair and document code while coping with low level of cooperation

Developed stand-alone ecommerce web application in ASP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL

Integrated FedEx, UPS, and various credit card processing gateway APIs

Wrote custom modifications of e-commerce web application according to client specifications

Wrote client side scripting data validation routines
 
Developed and implemented testing methods to achieve a commercial level of software functionality
 
Answered customer questions and  guided customers to problem solutions  by phone and email

Web Application Developer

Software by Design (now known as Vortx, Inc.)

Developed custom applications for corporate and small business clients

Trained 100% of end user clients for all projects I participated in

Constructed  ecommerce website portion of seamless integrated order fulfillment solution  in ASP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for small business client  resulting in significant increase in productivity and efficiency

Wrote and ran SQL queries on SQL Server and Access databases
 
Designed custom web-based intranet report generation application for corporate logistics firm with Java applets and Crystal Reports

Developed company website according to corporate guidelines

Maintained code source integrity using Microsoft Visual SourceSafe  

Received vary favorable employee evaluation and pay raise after six months

Southern Oregon University

Assisted students with operating PC and Mac computers and logging into university network

Successfully solved software and hardware issues 

Tutored students in computer science coursework

Supervised other lab assistants

Computer Lab Assistant

Raytheon

Demonstrated use of new JSP and JavaBean technologies with an open source SQL database in a POSIX environment to web team

Exhibited superior level of maturity compared to peers

Demonstrated diligence in all tasks resulting in informal job offer

Summer Hire

Tech professional with a wide range of experience and outstanding people skills.

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