[consulting] Hiring People

[Henri Poole]

Where is the recruiting effort giving you trouble?

We have found that our client need strategic advise in several areas
which include (not necessarily in this order of importance:
* grassroot organizing
* online and offline community building
* search engine optimization
* technology (scaling, availability, interoperatility, integration)
* internationalization

What types of strategic services are you looking to provide?

We also reach out to our clients and look at trends around them to
determine what strategic services they may need in the future. Depending
on the types of organizations that you are targeting, you may find
certain services that are more important to a number of them.

As for the actual recruiting, we tend to provide strategy from within
our organization. This may include our engineering team members, as well
as project managers - who have a particular knowledge about the areas of
interest to our clients.

-Henri

On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 10:17 -0400, Michael Haggerty wrote:
> Trellon is growing and I am giving a lot more thought to how our team is
> composed. Something I want to do is hire an internet strategist. This would
> not necessarily be a programmer, but someone who can really understand the
> goals clients are looking to accomplish and advise them on the best ways to
> get there. This person would craft strategy documents, review projects under
> development to make sure they are really meeting the client's goals, and
> keep things organized outside just the production of a Web site.
> 
> The problem is I don't really know how to recruit for this position. I have
> spoken to people with a lot of experience in specific areas, but finding
> someone who is a generalist and knows enough about a lot of things seems to
> be a tall order. It looks like this kind of work especially appeals to
> project managers, but it's not really a production role so much as a client
> relations role. It's hard to convey the difference.
> 
> Wondering if anyone on this list has any advice...
> 
> Thank you,
> Michael Haggerty
> Managing Partner
> Trellon, LLC
> http://www.trellon.com
> (p) 301-577-6162
> (c) 240-643-6561
> (f) 413-691-9114
> (aim) haggerty321 
> 
> 
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