{"id":999881431,"date":"2015-08-10T15:49:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dice.com\/?p=600947957"},"modified":"2025-06-23T13:33:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T19:33:27","slug":"prepping-your-profile-for-tech-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dice.com\/hiring\/recruitment\/prepping-your-profile-for-tech-engagement","title":{"rendered":"Prepping Your Profile for Tech Engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 18\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">If you want to make sure your social profiles demonstrate your tech-recruiting credibility, take a look at these steps from the new eBook I produced with Dice, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dice.com\/career-advice\"><strong>The Definitive Guide to Engaging Top Tech Candidates<\/strong><\/a><\/em>, and ask yourself the following:<\/div>\n<h3>Question One<\/h3>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 18\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">Do my summary and open job descriptions emphasize my focus and expertise in recruiting tech pros? (Include information about your company\u2019s technology stack, the kind of candidates you regularly recruit, and the kind of interesting tech problems the teams you hire for are working on.)<\/p>\n<h3>Question Two<\/h3>\n<p>Do I follow tech companies and tech leaders?<\/p>\n<h3>Question Three<\/h3>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 18\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">Do I post articles or videos or link to information about my company\u2019s technical work, or do I just come across as a traditional HR recruiter or sales-centric agency recruiter looking to make a dollar?<\/p>\n<h3>Question Four<\/h3>\n<p>Am I connected to engineers or just other recruiters? Am I park of relevant tech communities\/groups?<\/p>\n<h3>Question Five<\/h3>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 18\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">Do I have recommendations from engineering candidates and hiring managers, who rave about my professionalism, my abilities to help them in their career, my abilities as a tech recruiter, the quality of the candidate experiences I create, etc.?<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 1px solid #CCC; border-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 5px; max-width: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/key\/4YRIE2qNTjrYMx\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\"><strong><a title=\"The Definitive Guide to Engaging Top Tech Candidates\" href=\"\/\/www.slideshare.net\/Dice\/dice-guide-toengagingtechcandidates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Definitive Guide to Engaging Top Tech Candidates<\/a> <\/strong> from <strong><a href=\"\/\/www.slideshare.net\/Dice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dice<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to make sure your social profiles demonstrate your tech-recruiting credibility, take a look at these steps from the new eBook I produced with Dice, The Definitive Guide to Engaging Top Tech Candidates, and ask yourself the following: Question One Do my summary and open job descriptions emphasize my focus and expertise in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":600947957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2154],"class_list":["post-999881431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sourcing-candidates"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.5 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - 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