In the context of the booming Internet, BAT is always ready to engage in various "talent plans" to grab elites, so it is increasingly difficult to find suitable talents. For startups, spending money on major recruitment websites, expecting that "everything will be fine" and demanding talents who are willing to step into your quagmire are as unreliable as "poor" attacking "white". Of course, there will always be beautiful women who have ideals and ambitions and don't want to take the road of starting a business in golden handcuffs, but that is rare after all. So overall, it may be the best time for startups to make money, but it is also the worst time to recruit people. It is not feasible to recruit through traditional recruitment websites.

Two years ago, we attracted three or four outstanding young talents from Chinese Academy of Sciences, Peking University and Beihang University. In the campus recruitment in innovation works, I finally overcame the psychological barriers and gave me a package that I thought was already very good for the fresh graduates, but it was quickly carved up by local tyrants such as Netease, Tencent and Microsoft. Backed by the big tree of innovative works, we still do so with its radiation effect among students. Startups with no fame, no funds, no background and only dreams are more difficult to get favor. Therefore, it is difficult to take the road of school recruitment.

So startups need to explore other paths.

The first path is to use the team's contacts to find talents. This is an ordinary slow job, and it can't be completed overnight. Therefore, the company's technical partners should pay attention to expanding the contacts in the technical circle on weekdays and be prepared for danger in times of peace, just like the fable story of grasshoppers and ants that everyone saw when they were young. Don't wait until winter (need to recruit people) to remember to store grain (expand contacts).

Of course, expanding technical contacts is not as simple as meeting, exchanging business cards and making a haha. Otherwise BD will do it. Why bother those technical partners whose writing is not particularly good and difficult to be familiar with? Engineers are unruly, subject to technical level, technical vision and project ability, not glib. They cater to imaginary things on the surface, but they will have their own calm judgment in their hearts (alas, engineering male/engineering woman ~), and it is difficult to have a sense of identity; Only technology-related discussions, even live ammunition code, can poke their G point. Engineers often approve people first and then projects. And this recognition of people is gradually formed in repeated exchanges.