I am in another recruiting phase for a particular website. It has been a mixed journey so far. For technical types this will be a ASP.NET MVC website using TDD or BDD.

For cost reasons collocating in the UK would not have been feasible, I still think this is the most ideal solution if you have enough money. Therefore I have been trying to outsource the development.

I had started working with a company in the Philippines but their interest in the project waned when the necessity for TDD became a blocker, they had tried to recruit experienced TDD of BDD developers but seemed to have very little success. The next conversation was about training their existing developers but that proved too tough to pull off.

Since then I have advertised the job on odesk and had floods of applicants! This was not that surprising but showed the level of talent out there. The next challenge is working out the best value developer on the site to do the job, do you get what you pay for on here? At the moment I have some good candidates.

Another route I have taken is try to and find suitable candidates through linkedin.com. At the moment I have not had much response but I have been able to target the exact skills in certain of their groups. Recruiters have long targeted the groups I have been a member of and I will see how that route goes.

One other successful route I have taken, more for the design elements of the project, is my existing network. I am having the design done by an old employee in India. This is great as I know I can trust the level of work, however he is not able to work full time for me.

I guess this is not of much specific interest but hopefully will be of some interest to anyone looking to explore the different technical recruitment avenues available.