I'm not from UK but it seems the story is pretty much the same for small companies.
From experience, there's no single place that will just work. Have to keep trying through multiple channels all the time.
Here are some ways that we try.
- LinkedIn Jobs, indeed etc like job boards
- HN (whoishiring), angel.co
- technology specific job boards (welovegolang, pycoders weekly etc)
- references through current employees, their past colleagues etc
- cold pings on Linkedin, Twitter, github
- Some slack/discord channels for specific technologies
In personal experience, quality of the crowd depends on the channel too, however, wouldn't call this a confirmed observation.
From experience, there's no single place that will just work. Have to keep trying through multiple channels all the time.
Here are some ways that we try.
- LinkedIn Jobs, indeed etc like job boards
- HN (whoishiring), angel.co
- technology specific job boards (welovegolang, pycoders weekly etc)
- references through current employees, their past colleagues etc
- cold pings on Linkedin, Twitter, github
- Some slack/discord channels for specific technologies
In personal experience, quality of the crowd depends on the channel too, however, wouldn't call this a confirmed observation.