#85 - Agile Recruiting: Hiring in a Complex and Uncertain World - Jens Olberding

“Today, employees want more autonomy, e.g. work-life balance and working from home, and at the same time, they want more social inclusion to get as many authentic insights into the company and the new job as possible." Jens Olberding is the author of “Agile Recruiting” and an expert in agile HR management. In this episode, we opened our conversation discussing the great resignation trend and its underlying reasons. Jens then shared the concept of agile recruiting and explained how it is very much relevant to the latest changes in the current job landscape. He emphasized that recruiting should not only put focus just on the hiring departments’ needs but also equally on the candidates to understand better what they truly want from their career. Jens also shared a few recruiting best practices, such as getting the recruiting teams’ involvements in the recruitment process, building cross-functional teams, and the SuSiBOL interview technique that he shared towards the end to help in assessing candidates’ behaviors and competencies better. Listen out for: Career Journey - [00:06:00] The Great Resignation - [00:07:33] Agile Recruiting - [00:11:10] What the Candidate Wants - [00:14:12] Recruiting Team Involvement - [00:15:55] Hire for Talent, Train for Skills - [00:18:50] Cross-Functional Team - [00:20:24] Assessing Potentials - [00:22:52] Communication Among Equals - [00:24:23] Preselection - [00:26:22] Diversity of Experience - [00:30:51] SuSiBOL Technique - [00:34:21] Onboarding - [00:39:14] Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:42:48] _____ Jens Olberding’s Bio Jens Olberding is an expert in agile HR management and recruiting. He is a qualified organisational psychologist and has a Master’s degree in Human Resource Management. He is also a lecturer for diagnostics and recruitment and teaches methods for competence-based recruiting processes. His focus is on supporting agile transformations and the development of agile HR organisations in medium-sized companies. As a coach for leadership and transformation, he accompanies teams, leaders and organisations on their way to more agility. Follow Jens: LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/jens-olberding-130b618a/ Twitter – @jens_olberding Website – https://www.jo-agilehr.de/ Website – https://www.laeuft.io/ Our Sponsor Today’s episode is proudly sponsored by Skills Matter, the global community and events platform for software professionals. Skills Matter is an easier way for technologists to grow their careers by connecting you and your peers with the best-in-class tech industry experts and communities. You get on-demand access to their latest content, thought leadership insights as well as the exciting schedule of tech events running across all time zones. Head on over to skillsmatter.com to become part of the tech community that matters most to you - it’s free to join and easy to keep up with the latest tech trends. Like this episode? Subscribe on your favorite podcast app and submit your feedback. Follow @techleadjournal on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram. Pledge your support by becoming a patron. For more info about the episode (including quotes and transcript), visit techleadjournal.dev/episodes/85.