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

512-560-6337

Jonathan<at>hireinreverse.com

Jonathan Schultz

Pulselight

Sr. Software Engineer

Fourth

Back-end development, maintaining and adding new features to a large, complex legacy application that is a leading provider of workforce management for the hospitality and retail industries. 
Batch data processing and communication via Azure Service Bus.
Implemented changes to complex overtime calculation.  
Coded changes to rule-based forecasting engine. 
Handled integration of AI forecasting results with legacy application.
Tech stack:  Java, JUnit, Mockito, SQL, Azure Service Bus, IntelliJ, Docker, Git, Confluence, Rally.

Senior Software Engineer

Zilliant

Web services development for a large, complex legacy price optimization and management application.
Tech stack:  Java, JUnit, SQL, microservices.

Staff Software Engineer

Phunware, Inc.

Collaborated with other senior engineering staff on architecture, design, and implementation of mobile-as-a-service platform applications including web services, analytics, and reporting.  Close cooperation with front-end, mobile SDK, and back-end analytics teams.  Analyzed back-end systems and algorithms, and implemented improvements resulting in significant performance increases.  Created RESTful web services with Java, Jersey, JUnit, Tomcat, MySQL, Spring JDBC, and also with Node.js, Mocha, and RabbitMQ.  Technical stack also included IntelliJ, Eclipse, HBase, Kibana, and Linux.  Drafted API documentation for web services and integration with analytics back-end services.

Sotera Defense Solutions, Inc. (Potomac Fusion)

Development, integration, and support of software components and web services, particularly RESTful web services on the Java technology stack on JBoss.

Senior Software Developer

Kforce Inc. (contracting at Sotera Defense Solutions)

Development, support, and integration of software components and web services, particularly RESTful web services on the Java technology stack on JBoss.

Fiserv

Major contributor on multiple projects for secure, electronic document presentment, the majority of the time focusing on middle tier and back end of customer-facing web applications in Java/JSP running on Tomcat, and occasional work when needed on legacy server code in C++.  Use of Open JPA and JDBC for database access, as well as other tools and technologies including Eclipse/MyEclipse, MySQL, and small amount of Visual C++ 6.0.   Leader and organizer of a long-term, best practices seminar to improve overall code quality and practices on the development team.  Mentor for developers in refactoring and unit testing techniques and tools, resulting in a significant and measurable increase in number of unit tests written, and an improved focus on quality throughout the development and SQA teams.  Evaluation of code analysis tools and plugins.  Orchestration of multi-departmental "test fest" for a major release of Enterprise View, a core product.

AlterPoint, Inc.

•	Created new Web Services API in the REST (Representational State Transfer) architectural style for DeviceAuthority, AlterPoint’s network change and configuration management suite (running on JBoss), using Java, Servlets, XML, JavaCC, Ant, Eclipse, and Perl for testing
•	Wrote Perl API modules to interact with Java service

Software Developer

Landmark Graphics Corporation

Led a small development team in meeting a challenging release schedule for one of Landmark's flagship products, the oil and gas industry's most advanced surface mapping and modeling system, Z-MAP Plus. Wrote GUI enhancements in C/X/Motif, provided time estimates to program manager, assigned tasks, conducted defect triage with test lead and program manager, fixed bugs.  Led the team in porting the application from Unix to Linux.

Development Project Leader

Java application development, including writing and maintaining code for rendering in Java Graphics2D, and GUI development in Swing.

Java application development (Z-MAP Plus PowerView).  Wrote JNI code to allow new Java application to call algorithms written in C++.  Created automated nightly regression test system of C++ algorithms, using shell scripts.  Used Forte for Java GUI editor to develop new user interface panel.  Assigned tasks, conducted defect triage, conducted code reviews, fixed bugs.

Z-MAP Plus group.  c. 1995 – 2001. New GUI development using C/X/Motif, bug fixing, and source code administration through release to manufacturing in a multi-platform unix environment.  Used ClearCase and RCS code management systems.  Performed maintenance programming and some work with shell programming (primarily csh), and acted as the group’s “buildmaster”.  

c. 1991-1994. Part of small team that developed and brought to market the oil and gas industry's first knowledge-based gridding and contouring productivity tool, called Contouring Assistant.  Did algorithm programming in C and FORTRAN; interface programming in C/Motif/UIL; knowledge-based programming using Neuron Data's Nexpert Object; source code administration and release to manufacturing in a multi-platform unix environment.

Research Group.  1990 -1991. Implemented enhancements and new modules for subsurface mapping and modeling programs; used analytical skills to test ideas about computational geometry algorithms.

Flexible developer with a wide array of experience, who enjoys tackling software challenges and is committed to lifelong learning. Solid track record of delivering successful projects.  Good communicator, leader, mentor, and teammate.  Skilled in design, coding, analytical problem solving, debugging, and testing.

•	Extensive current experience with Java, JUnit, RESTful web services, Object-Oriented Development, and Agile Scrum process.
•	Practical experience with Linux, IntelliJ Idea, MySQL, Spring JDBC, Tomcat, Git, and Bitbucket.  
•	Previous mastery of C, and previous practical experience with Node.js, Mocha, Ant, gmake, Eclipse, XML, Maven, Servlets, JPA, JNI, FORTRAN, C++, shell scripting
(primarily with csh), Perl, SVN, CVS, ClearCase, and RCS.
•	Light experience with Scala, Impala, HDFS, HBase, and RabbitMQ.

Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform 1.4.

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