I work as a technical recruiter. I find technical (computer
programmers etc) for Telecom, Financial and Pharm companies. I use the
usual Monster and Dice Web sites but would like to expand into other
areas/ways I can find potential candidates. For example someone
mentioned ?User Groups? but how do you do that without intruding into
their space. What may be some Books or articles I could read to better
find all these technical people on the Internet.
I need all types of skills from .NET to J2EE . Web Developers to
Project Managers. I may need a programmer in particular software like
Amdocs (Telecom Billing Software) or Oracle.

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Request for Question Clarification by lot-ga on 07 Oct 2004 18:09 PDT

Hello gibson1941

Do you want to find these professionals in a specific geographical
location to be employed onsite? Full time or freelance, and are you
looking for those on the internet who provide their skills remotely?

regards

lot-ga

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Clarification of Question by gibson1941-ga on 07 Oct 2004 18:45 PDT

I am looking for candidates in the USA .They are mostly
Temp(consulting) or Perm employees that we hire to do Project work.
98% of the time they would need to be on site . They can live in
California and travel back and forth to a psotion in Denver or Atlanta

Feel free to post in the "Pay for Answer" forum at
www.vbaexpress.com/forum. While our site is directed primarily at VBA,
you can believe me that we have coders of all types there. You can
also feel free to "bump" your post back up to the forefront from time
to time or directly solicit our coders via private message or other
means based on our member list at
http://www.vbaexpress.com/forum/memberlist.php

Just please don't *spam* anyone. :)

being a programmer who's currently looking for work, I would suggest the following:
1) Never spam (email, messageboard, etc).  Every single programmer I
know HATES spammers.
2) Expand the sites you use.  For example, there's computerjobs.com,
careerbuilder.com, etc.
3) Try getting into communities that have many programmers in them,
and develop personal relationships with said programmers.  For
example, slashdot.org is FULL of programmers.
4) Advertise your site/or jobs on sites where programmers frequent. 
For example again, Slashdot.org, fark.com, homestarrunner.com, and
fark.com.

What i would do is set up a well informed website about your buisness
and what you do. And list all current jobs and specfications one would
need for a job. Then advertise a good place to start is the places
where all of the geeks hangout. I would try tech-tips.com I mean there
are just so many places but this happens to be one of my favorite
sites for helping others.

I think davids77 means www.tek-tips.com

:)

While a decent forum, they have no area designed for "lounging" or
getting to know others. However, many of those coding professionals
hang out at vbaexpress, where we do have off-topic forums.

I would lay off the alphabet soup. Code is code and the boundaries are
pretty vague. Just seek a programmer/analyst. If you find someone who
has done any serious programming for 3-10 years, they should be able
to handle maintenance work with very little coaching and also be able
to develop original material in a couple of months. Cross training is
much easier than finding someone who previously worked "there".
Computer languages are not at all like studying French, Russian, or
Arabic.

I don't think Technical Recruiters can "lay off the alphabet". I used
to work for Computer Assistance, which was bought by Coopers &
Lybrand, which was bought by...gee, I don't even know anymore!

But you cannot recruit technical professionals for projects that range
from 2 weeks to 1 year without knowing that they have specific
experience in the area needed. We used to bill $75 for these guys, and
that was 1985. I can't imagine what they're getting these days. We
also had a big database program wherein we could track their
capabilities, including the level of that capability (beginner to
wizard). Now, if you're a big IT department with senior IT people,
then maybe the gumbo is fine, but I think this guy really needs to
stick to the alphabet soup. :) Just MHO.

check out this link

check out this link 

http://www.programming-x.com/programming/recruiting.html

As a seasoned programmer I have been programming for 9 years in
languages of C, C++, C#, Microsoft Qbasic, Visual Basic (versions
3-6), vb.net, c++.net, SQL and crystal reports. I have found the
following pages useful in finding contract jobs. I could probrably
find a perm job somewhere, but I only do temp/contract jobs. Becuase I
feel it keeps my skills sharp, its never the same thing twice but when
it is it can be easy money (If you know what I meen).
Check out theese sites, on most of theese places there are programmers
that really know their ins and outs of how things work.
http://www.developers.net/ (the website that I frequent the most)
http://rfp.forbes.com/index.aspx (who knew forbes was into theese things?)
http;//pscode.com (has resources for programmers which I belive runs
the next site on my list)
http://www.rentacoder.com has dozens and dozens of catagories and
several thousand programmers
read http://www.rentacoder.com/RentACoder/SoftwareBuyers/FAQ.asp if
you have any  questions here.
I have a resumes on Monster.com and Hotjobs.com, I hope you find this
information useful.
Thoose are the sites that I can remmber off of the top of my head