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Recruiting a winning engineering team can be intimidating, especially for first-time and non-technical founders.

Ive served at multiple startups and established tech companies worldwide, and have hired more than 100 engineers. Recruiting great engineers involves four main challenges:

Finding good engineers is a lengthy subject in itself, and there is plenty of information on how to structure offers, so lets focus on how to engage and assess great candidates.

I have identified a few startup-specific tactics that you can apply immediately even if you do not have a technical background.

You need to earn the attention of good candidates. Lets skip the basics like getting an introduction through your network or running engaging LinkedIn and StackOverflow ads.

You are targeting the top 25% of engineers, which puts you in direct competition with the best recruiters in the industry. Because engineers are approached by recruiters all the time, they have become wary of them. This gives you an immediate advantage as a founder or startup manager.

Think of your opening message as a pitch and make it interesting for them: Talk about the magnitude of the problem you are solving and the impact they could have; tell them about the cutting edge tech you are using, and how they will have the freedom to shape the companys future. Dont overdo it, but dont make it sound like they would be exchanging one cubicle for another, either.

Most people youre reaching out to are probably not looking for a job, so do not approach them with a dry copy-and-pasted invitation to apply. Look at their profiles, which communities they belong to, their interests, skills, backgrounds, who they follow, their GitHub profiles, etc.

Personalize your pitch accordingly and tell them why they are an excellent fit for your company and vice-versa.

Poor hiring choices can set a project back by months even permanently and generate tons of technical debt. Experienced engineering managers are probably familiar with tech hiring, but non-technical founders and technical founders with no management experience should learn two ground rules first:

You also want to answer two fundamental questions:

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Onesimus Collins is a junior civil engineering student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and one of the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) Environmental Justice Programs Interns. Through the NWF program he is splitting his internship between two of Birmingham City departments: Floodplain Management under the direction of Attorney Tracey Hayes and Capital Projects under the direction of Jeff McKay. He is also part of the National Society of Black Engineers and a junior minister at his church. Onesimus has always had a passion for the environment and the community. Even when I was younger I was concerned about pollution, and it was always a big issue for me, he says. Ive always wondered what I could do so that the next generation has a clean world to live in. Thats a passion of mine. Hes driven to succeed to make his mom proud, and pay her back for all of the opportunities shes given him, and his uncle whos a civil engineer and role model for him as well.

He mentions that the internship with the National Wildlife Federation has allowed him to push forward even further with his goals. This internship has helped me grow as an individual and has shown me the importance of networking and building relationships, so that you can grow and move forward, he says. It has also helped me see the different sides of engineering, the office part verses the work out in the field and helped me realize what aspects I like the most. Onesimus said his ultimate goals is to work his way up in the engineering field and eventually open his own engineering firm.

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IBM has launched its Client Engineering team in Middle East and Africa (MEA) to drive innovation across the region by providing an enhanced customer experience, focused on co-creation, technical eminence and speed.

Located across four countries UAE, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and South Africa, the IBM Client Engineering teams consist of designers, solution architects, data scientists, cloud engineers, security experts, business transformation consultants and more who work on the agile co-creation of IBM technology and Consultingsolutions for their clients all within six to eight weeks.

As it becomes more critical than ever to innovate with technology, organisations across the Middle East and Africa (MEA) are looking for new approaches to doing business which enable them deliver digital transformation to address fast-changing consumer needs despite disruption, said Saad Toma, General Manager, IBM Middle East and Africa.

According to IBM, the teamof creators uses technologies such as cloud, data, automation and security to deliver solutions that address business use cases and challenges in industries such as government, financial services, telecommunications and travel and transportation among others.

In addition, the Client Engineering teams will have deep expertise in AI, automation, site reliability and security to help optimise business operations and improve client outcomes in the region.

Across the region, Client Engineering will also leverage access to the Global Industry Solution Centres and their expertise and solutions to advise clients across industries on solving their most critical business challenges at speed including those clients in some of the most highly-regulated industries.

With Client Engineerings focus on co-creation and co-execution, these teams will ensure organisations across MEA overcome obstacles to modernise and transform ultimately fast-tracking innovation and helping clients drive lasting, meaningfuloutcomes, Toma added.

IBM, SAP to help organisations embrace hybrid cloud

As Client Engineering teams engagements with clients will be varied based on their specific journey and teams will leverage design thinking methodology for client results. While some will work towards the creation of a Minimal Viable Product (MVP), other engagements will lead to a prototype which integrates features of a product or service or Proof of Technology (POT) designed to test whether a specific technology is a viable solution.

Teams will also engage, scope and deliver MVPs faster through accelerators for open hybrid cloud, data fabric, customer care, business automation, observability and security and build clientjourneys in automation, data & AI, AI applications and security.

Our clients have been greatly challenged by the unprecedented disruption of COVID which increased demand, expectations, complexity and constraints. To truly come out stronger and resilient, organisations must invest in end-to-end transformation, said Mohamed Behiry, IBM MEAClient Engineering Manager.

The time has come for a different approach that leverages the latest open technologies in hybrid cloud and AI combined with agile methods which helps organisations test market fit quickly and expand solutions using real-time data this is what IBM Client Engineering is set to do for businesses in MEA.

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