HOW TO FIND PROGRAMMERS IN UKRAINE IN 2022
WHY UKRAINIAN PROGRAMMERS ARE SO VALUED?
We would like to start the article with an answer to a rather complex and at the same time simple question: "Why are Ukrainian programmers so valuable to Western companies?». Without a doubt, educational background plays an integral role in choosing an employee, but most business owners beyond Ukraine put high esteem upon virtues, such as diligence, constant learning, courtesy, professional accuracy, etc. Most of these qualities are inherent in Ukrainians and this is becoming one of the main advantages in the foreign labor market such USA, Canada, and the European Union.
The similarity in mentality and way of life between Ukrainians and Europeans also helps foreign business owners to establish a common denominator with Ukrainians and build sophisticated and long-lasting offshore development teams in Ukraine. And innate communication skills make Ukrainian developers excellent leaders and excellent team workers.
Also, Ukrainian programmers have gained professional appreciation due to one of the best price-quality ratios in the IT market in Europe. It is because of all these advantages that Ukrainians have become welcomed workers in many Western companies around the world and the rising proportion of new American, and European companies are looking for a programmer in Ukraine. And finding and recruiting a good developer is not an easy task for even an experienced product owner, so before you try to arrange the best employee for your business, it is best to choose the method by which you will search for him or her.
IT RECRUITING IN UKRAINE FOR BEGINNERS
Each time Western entrepreneurs make up their minds to hire Ukrainian programmers for a startup or an expansion of an existing tech project, they are faced with a rising number of issues and setbacks. And all due to the fact that people often choose the wrong way to search for potential candidates. Conventionally, there are many different options for recruiting IT specialists, such as freelance, hiring through staff selection companies, standard interviews, searching among acquaintances, etc. All these methods have their pros and cons, and we will try to find out and highlight the best method of searching for experienced engineers in Ukraine.
Western business owners increasingly prefer to hire programmers from Ukraine, as they are distinguished by many positive qualities, such as sociability, good education, hard work, perseverance, and meticulousness. The methods of hiring employees should be compared with the characteristics of the mentality and professional ethics of Ukrainians.
Ukrainian engineers have always been in high demand in the Western IT labor market, and let’s try to answer the trend question in 2022: "How to find programmers in Ukraine?"
DO YOU ACCIDENTALLY KNOW..? (SEARCH FOR EMPLOYEES AMONG ACQUAINTANCES)
Each of us, in most cases, turns to acquaintances or friends, if we need something, but it frequently works well in business. The fact is that in business the accuracy and special qualities of each employee are more important than the usual recommendations of people not related to your business. This can bring you down from the right course; take a person who will not correspond to your expectations, as well as the loss of precious time, in order to look for another employee in the braid of ends.
This method is probably the most unreliable of all because it does not give any guarantees that the candidate you hire for your startup or dedicated project will correspond to your demands. Above all, such passive requests from the outside can lead not only to an unsuccessful choice of an employee but also to the separation of friendship or quarrels. "To learn from an acquaintance" as a way to search has long been outdated, but nevertheless, periodically, entrepreneurs are still mistaken to choose it.
Of course, such a practice of hiring tech specialists in Ukraine is one of the easiest to implement but is absolutely not recommended for use, due to the above problems that this method can cause.
THERE IS NOTHING BETTER THAN LIVE COMMUNICATION (STANDARD INTERVIEWS)
The better half of the companies have gone from this method of choosing an employee a decade ago, but many still use it on rare occasions. This method of IT recruitment of Ukrainian programmers is better than the previous one, but it has one evident minus – a huge loss of time. On average, the preparation and conducting of one interview with a potential candidate take at least an hour and a half.
One may say that there is always a reason for this: you can personally evaluate the qualities of a person’s character, sociability, neatness, oratory, etc. On the other side, in 2022 you can choose dedicated developers in Ukraine according to your exact criteria without spending so much time and effort. Of course, if you have your own lead of Recruitment and HR, this will simplify the task, but it will entail other expenses such as maintaining your own in-office recruiting team.
With a hand on the heart, this is a justifiable method of hiring in Ukraine, where not everyone is accustomed to working with HR and recruiting companies. It should be said that such an approach takes a vital proportion of your time and conventionally offshore tech partners (such as ‘Go Interactive’) which specialize in the selection of staff and it recruiting in Ukraine will do all this much faster and more professionally.
EASY AND CHEAP OR UNRELIABLE AND COSTLY? (FREELANCE)
For many years, freelancing has filled the niche of finding IT developers and is still a proven method to choose. Within the variety of freelancing sites, you can find a thousand candidates ready to work with you, but as with every single method, freelancing has its own nuances.
During the pandemic of COVID, many programmers went freelance to adapt to the circumstances and increase earnings, and currently, freelance sites are full of people who want to work, but is this a good way to find a permanent employee in the company? In fact, not, even with regarding all the pros: cheapness and ease of searching for workers, freelance is suitable as a one-time service and has many pitfalls for business owners.
In IT, the human factor is crucial, since the work is often carried out remotely, a person may simply be unfair or not to do work within time, which will pull many other problems in your project. Given all of the above, freelance is a rather unreliable method of searching for dedicated candidates, and also certainly not suitable for those who want to create a powerful dedicated development team in Ukraine for their business. It is more suitable for some one-time orders or when the company cares about the cost of work more than its quality.
HR AND RECRUITING COMPANIES
Finally, we moved to the most convenient and productive method of searching for programmers in Ukraine - cooperation with an experienced tech partner. These companies themselves conduct an interview, select the most experienced engineers and provide them to you. We can say that this method shapes the future of the industry, because it practically does not take precious time from the company and, considering the competition in this area, is not an expensive business service.
The most valuable advantage of hiring a recruitment company in Ukraine is the individual approach to each business owner, as you can communicate your exact wishes and requirements for your future employee and they will be fulfilled. The customer company explains in detail its preferences to the candidates and the timing of the task is all that is required.
CONCLUSION
In 2022, there are several proven practices to search for candidates, but it still remains a difficult task for businessmen. After all, the success of your business directly depends on who you work with - with a new employee, you can either take off to a completely new level or fail with losses.
All of the listed methods have both pros and cons, but some are outdated and as time goes on, simply retire from the IT stage, and the product owners who are trying to use them constantly remain at a loss. For the business owner, the most important thing will be to determine what exactly he wants to get from his new employee in Ukraine and how exactly the recruiting and hiring would be performed.
It is important to note that IT recruiting in Ukraine has reached an evidently new level over the past 10 years, so cooperation with tech partners is an obvious choice in 2022.
If you have any questions and have an idea about hiring a team of professional developers in Ukraine, we would be glad to fuel your business idea with our services: contact.us@gointeractive.co
