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If you want to hear more of Dan, you can listen to last week's episode, as well as some others, uh,
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Ask The Programmer Episode 254 - Dan Ferrisi Asks What to Know About Hiring & Retaining Programmers
episodes 236 and 237, and then many more before that.
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Ask The Programmer Episode 254 - Dan Ferrisi Asks What to Know About Hiring & Retaining Programmers
So Dan, I'll turn it over to you.
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Ask The Programmer Episode 254 - Dan Ferrisi Asks What to Know About Hiring & Retaining Programmers
So this is a really important question, Dan.
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Ask The Programmer Episode 254 - Dan Ferrisi Asks What to Know About Hiring & Retaining Programmers
And I, as a business owner and as somebody who does recruit and employ and hopefully retain programmers and software developers, I live this quite often.
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Ask The Programmer Episode 254 - Dan Ferrisi Asks What to Know About Hiring & Retaining Programmers
And it's important, first off, to understand the makeup of a programmer because it may not be the makeup...
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of the person hiring or maybe of many of the other people on staff.
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Ask The Programmer Episode 254 - Dan Ferrisi Asks What to Know About Hiring & Retaining Programmers
And we talk a lot, I'm a big advocate of personality profiles and I mentioned the DISC profile quite often.
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Ask The Programmer Episode 254 - Dan Ferrisi Asks What to Know About Hiring & Retaining Programmers
And if you do follow that,
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Ask The Programmer Episode 254 - Dan Ferrisi Asks What to Know About Hiring & Retaining Programmers
Programmers tend to be a C personality type or even a CS.
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C is standing for compliant.
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S is standing for stability.
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Ask The Programmer Episode 254 - Dan Ferrisi Asks What to Know About Hiring & Retaining Programmers
There's many other adjectives that you could use, but I'll describe a little bit about that.
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Ask The Programmer Episode 254 - Dan Ferrisi Asks What to Know About Hiring & Retaining Programmers
Programmers are also introverted typically.
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They like to work independently.
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They like to work in a quiet space.
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Ask The Programmer Episode 254 - Dan Ferrisi Asks What to Know About Hiring & Retaining Programmers
They don't like necessarily to be put on a pedestal or have a spotlight on them, but they do like to be considered.
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Ask The Programmer Episode 254 - Dan Ferrisi Asks What to Know About Hiring & Retaining Programmers
And, and they still do have feelings and they, and, you know, as, as an S personality type, they, they're, they're supportive.
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Ask The Programmer Episode 254 - Dan Ferrisi Asks What to Know About Hiring & Retaining Programmers
They like to help other people succeed.
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Ask The Programmer Episode 254 - Dan Ferrisi Asks What to Know About Hiring & Retaining Programmers
They may not always take the lead, but they want a, you know, the desirable outcome that they really take a lot of pride in the work that they do.