what was that like for you when you got the first individual to to go from a candidate to
finally giving them an offer i was like finally but i i learned a lot through that one of them
i still remember to this day it was i believe like a senior software engineer with specific
like a text specific that was a niche skill set that they were looking for and at the end of it
i i felt grateful that i was able to connect with this person along the way because one of
the things that i've i've realized is that the market is incredibly competitive and people are
interviewing with multiple companies so it i learned how to really build fast relationships
within within my time at judge uh not only fast relationships but
meaningful ones as well where my first placement was it was so interesting because
again just being able to work with them on like what they're going to earn and all these other
these other aspects to it one thing stuck out to me about the specific candidate actually
uh i can share this cat this person actually works at ingram micro now and still there they
were taking on a 12-plus month contract but one thing that really stood out to me is how
i'm not saying easy it is to break into the technical world but this person didn't have
like an official college degree well and they primarily took classes to get a certification
so it really impacted me in a positive way because i thought i've been connecting with
this guy and then my account manager and i scheduled to actually have lunch with him
one of the nicest people that i've met and even since then i you know still followed up with this
guy afterwards and a lot of it is maintaining those relationships even afterwards but
i mean as much as the relationship did impact me it also helped me realize that you know if
someone is out there and they don't they feel like there's this gap between where they're at
and you know this industry and technology just realize there are people out there that didn't
go to college and still made it into the technical world as an engineer developer but they they took
different steps you know they were able to get us a couple certifications like their aws
certification and other ones and it led them to being a part of a solid organization ingram micro
is actually because i believe another consumer electronics company uh within that industry i
believe that's the industry that they're in but what i learned from that as well is that
if again if you wanted to seriously take another career trajectory another crew around that you
can do that it's just going to take a lot more effort and intentionality to do so but
i i'm still impacted by that because this you know i asked him i was running his background
and they're like i was like hey man by the way they're asking for like your education your
you know your your transcripts for college and it's like hey i didn't go to college
yeah and i was like wow and i wasted my time and i was like wow you know and just to get some insight
in the technical world as as you know louis i mean these are high-paying jobs you know for architects
for people that are like senior or developers senior software engineers you know python senior
pipe senior python developers you know etc these are people that are that are high income earners
and being able to take a step back see what i was offering him or what judge with the contract that
we were offering him it really opened my eyes as to okay you know it feels like there's this gap
but someone if they wanted to could take those steps so it was really reassuring so what was
it that made um is it ingram ingram wanna hire him even though there was that gap of education
experience like why did they take their chance uh with him or or at judge like were they like yeah
let's give him a chance what was the reasoning he was very personable as well as he he was still
able to go ahead and start from the ground up with his experience so it started out as like a
service desk technician and then he'd jump into it so a lot of it was just him being able to have the
right door open and sometimes you know that can't take networking having the right connections but
he had the right experience without the education yeah and even to this day something that
most engineering or i'm not i don't want to speak for all engineering teams for mo you know
throughout the board but right i think in a time right now where it really is a candidate driven
market that's another thing too for managers out there to to really think about it to consider you
know what are areas that we can make sacrifices on when it comes to finding talent and that's one
of those areas education just because someone has a computer science degree or maybe rather
than an engineer i mean engineering depending on what that would look like were we willing to
make sacrifices if someone has four plus years of experience of what you're looking for so