How To Impress Employers at Infosessions

• 2015/05/02

Top tech talent knows that industry recruiters often bring a stack ofpre-negotiated offers to university infosessions, so that they can snagprogrammers and UX designers who really stand out. Instead of spending valuabletime validating a particularly promising candidate’s skillset through aprotracted series of interviews, it’s often more efficient to simply give theindividual an offer right then and there. Internal studies at Google have shownthat experienced recruiters can usually tell if a programmer has ‘what it takes’just from how they act at infosessions: the insightful questions they ask, thestickers on their laptop, and how they comport themselves in general.…