The Technical Recruiting Cheat Sheet

"As a software developer, if there’s one thing that that puts me off when it comes to technical recruiters, it’s when they don’t understand the basic technical vocabulary I use in my daily work."

Must Have Technical Recruiting Cheat Sheet for Technical Roles.jpg Part of skillful technical recruitment is being able to effectively communicate with technical professionals and understand the technical roles you’re recruiting for. A knowledge of basic technical terms makes you stand out as a technical recruiter, allows you to perform even better when matching the right developer to the right role.

And yet technology is changing so fast, it’s hard to keep up with the changes and innovations in technical roles and terminology. That’s where a technical cheat sheet comes in handy as a must have tool to improve your technical recruiting.

Why Have A Technical Cheat Sheet?

Hiring for a technical role can be difficult especially if you don't have the know how. That said, how do you know how to recruit developers who have the right skills for the job? First you have to work out what the position requires. Then you have to search for candidates who match up with the right skill and experience. Then your interview and assessment needs to ensure that your chosen candidates are indeed right for the job, before you offer them the position. Despite how extensive this process may be, you also have to move fast, to fill the position more quickly and keep your top candidates interested.

A technical cheat sheet helps you locate valuable technical recruiting information quickly and easily resulting in greater success rates for your technical recruitment process. The benefits of a technical cheat sheet are:

Easy access to the most common technical terms you’re likely to encounter in recruitment.
Increasing your knowledge and exposure to the fast-paced world of tech you’re hiring for.
Build trust and confidence in your candidates and clients that you understand tech roles.
Better screening and assessment abilities to evaluate and choose the right candidates.
Greater clarity and precision when searching for candidates to match a certain job description.

>>Download Must Have Technical Recruiting Cheat Sheet For Technical Roles

Glossary of Technical Roles for Technical Recruiters

A glossary of technical roles can help you understand the skills needed for each role. Here we’ve collected a number of different technical role titles, and the skills associated with those titles. If you’re not familiar with the technical skills required for a role, consult a technical skills glossary for further details.

Area of Expertise: Front End and UX

Technical Role	Skills Needed
.NET Developer	ASP, ASP .NET, C#, VB.NET
Cocoa Developer/OSX Developer	Apple, Applescript, Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, iOS, Objective-C, Objective C++, OS X, Xcode
Flash Developer	ActionScript, Flash
Front End Developer	ActionScript, Ajax, ASP, CoffeeScript, CSS, Flash, HTML, HTML5, JavaScript, JQuery
Interactive Developer	Ajax, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, XHTML
Rails Developer	Ruby, Ruby-HTML, Ruby on Rails
SharePoint Developer	Ajax, ASP .NET, C# , CSS, HTML, JavaScript, SharePoint, SQL, Windows Server, VB.NET, XML, XSL
Windows Developer	ASP, C, C#, C++, .NET, Windows

Area of Expertise: Back End

Technical Role	Skills Needed
Back End Developer	C#, Java, PHP, Python, Ruby
Business Intelligence Analyst	Business-intelligence, BI, C, C++, C#, Cognos, ETL, Java, jQuery, Objective-C, R, SQL, SAS, SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, Visual Basic, SAPUI5 - CSS, CSS3, HTML5, Javascript, OData Dynpro - ABAP, Dynpro
Data Engineer	C, C++, Cassandra, HBase, HDFS, Java, Puppet, Ruby, Scala
Data Mining	Perl, Python
Linux/Unix Proficient Developers	AWK, Debian, Emacs Fedora, Linux, Linux-kernel, RHEL, Unix, vi, vim Shell Scripting: Bourne Shell, Bash, Korn, C Shell Scripting: PHP, Python, Perl
Machine Learning/ Recommender Engines	Java, Perl, Python, R, Weka
Oracle Developer	ASP, .NET, SQL Databases: MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, RDBMS
SAP Developer	ABAP, C++, COBOL, ERP, mySAP, Netweaver, Java, SAP
Site Reliability Engineer	Authentication/Authorization, Cloud, HTTP, Linux/Unix, SQL, Network Design, Security, performance, and disaster recovery, SSL, TCP/IP (languages will vary by company)
Software Architect	.NET, Agile, Ant, API, C++, Cassandra, CORS, CouchDB, Git, HTTP, Java, Maven, Mongo, MySQL, MVC, Oracle, Perl, PHP, Python, Redis, Ruby, SOA, SDK, Teradata, Unit-testing, Websocket (Vary by company, search on languages, frameworks, APIs, tools, databases, etc.)

Area of Expertise: Big Data

Technical Role	Skills Needed
Big Data Engineers	Cassandra, Cloud Computing, Hadoop, HBase, MapReduce, Mongo
Data Engineer	C, C++, Cassandra, HBase, HDFS, Java, Puppet, Ruby, Scala
Data Mining	Perl, Python
Machine Learning/ Recommender Engines	Java, Perl, Python, R, Weka
Oracle Developer	ASP, .NET, SQL Databases: MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, RDBMS
Platforms Infrastructure	C, C++, Cassandra, HDFS, Go, HTTP, Java, MySQL

Area of Expertise: Mobile

Technical Role	Skills Needed
All Mobile Development	Multithreading, Event-handling, Memory-management
Android Developer	C, C++, HTML5, Java, Linux
Blackberry Developer	C, C++, Cascades, HTML5, Java, QT
iOS Developer	C, Cocoa, HTML5, LUA, Objective-C
OS X Developer	Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, Objective-C, Objective-C++, OS X, Xcode
Web Developer	Ajax, ASP, CoffeeScript, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, JQuery, JRuby, PHP, Ruby, Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails Developer	Ruby, Ruby-HTML, Ruby on Rails
Interactive Developer	Ajax, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, XHTML
.NET Developer	ASP, ASP .NET, C#, VB.NET