http://procnew.com/interviewing-and-hiring-programmers.html Dynamic Languages, Databases, and Startups Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:39:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://procnew.com/interviewing-and-hiring-programmers.html/comment-page-1#comment-68 10 cheap ways to get clients for freelance consultants « Proc.new Sat, 24 Nov 2007 08:36:56 +0000 http://procnew.com/?p=18#comment-68 [...] 9. Get to know the professors at your local university. Particularly the ones in the department that teach your specialty. Many business owners will contact the universities and find out if they know of anyone that can handle the projects they need done. The school may want you to take one or more of their students on as an intern to help grease the skids. This is typically a win-win situation, the student gets invaluable work experience, and you get someone to handle those parts of the application that are tedious but non-complicated to work on. Make sure they send you several candidates to choose from. I’ve written previously about how to interview and hire programmers. [...] [...] 9. Get to know the professors at your local university. Particularly the ones in the department that teach your specialty. Many business owners will contact the universities and find out if they know of anyone that can handle the projects they need done. The school may want you to take one or more of their students on as an intern to help grease the skids. This is typically a win-win situation, the student gets invaluable work experience, and you get someone to handle those parts of the application that are tedious but non-complicated to work on. Make sure they send you several candidates to choose from. I’ve written previously about how to interview and hire programmers. [...]

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