Month: October 2019

Categories
Distributed Teams Hiring

Needle in a Haystack

(Decorist : 9/19-9/19)

Challenge

Kept receiving candidates sourced by onsite India HR more corporate than the startup profile actually needed for the team.

Action

Posted Technical Architect, Scrum Master, and Full-stack Django Engineer JDs to Linkedin India, then screened potential candidates.

Results

  • Paid ~$100 total for well-qualified Technical Architect (4/35) and Scrum Master (12/50+) applicants.
Categories
Architecture CMS eCommerce SEO

Better SEO

(Decorist : 9/19-9/19)

Challenge

Deliver SEO value faster.

Action

Prior, the dominant in-house paradigm did not realize the potential of Django to serve in a CMS capacity.

I introduced the idea to to leverage Django as a CMS to power Landing Pages, like this one:

Results

  • Empowered Marketing to manage content and reduced time-to-delivery for Landing Pages by 30%.