Methods I have used that everyone else has used:

Post on Shuimu (somewhat effective)

Post on Blue Ideal (ineffective)

Post in the technical email group (ineffective)

Buy the cheapest service from 51job/Zhilian (somewhat effective)

Call everyone you can think of and ask for recommendations (ineffective)

Call everyone you have discussed starting a business with and had a drink with (ineffective)

Talk to former colleagues in private (effective)

Methods I have used that everyone else may not have used:

Go on Twitter and look at XXX’s followers, one by one, look at their twitter, blogs, Google Reader shares, find ways to get their emails, contact them, and harass them by phone in the middle of the night.

Go to Douban, pick a few heavyweight books from the front-end and back-end, and find people who want to read, have read, or are reading this book. Look at them one by one, look at their activities, blogs, Google Reader sharing, find ways to get emails, contact, and harass them by phone in the middle of the night.

Find colleagues and ask them what technical blogs they read, find ways to get emails, contact, and harass them by phone in the middle of the night.

Talk about a few experiences:

Don't rely too much on the people around you

The method of selecting junior talents from social recruitment and campus recruitment is not suitable for startups, so entrepreneurs can only rely on themselves to be headhunters, starting from the people around you, classmates, friends, and company employees you have contacted.

This is a fact, but also a trap. The possibility that the people around you can just meet the needs of entrepreneurship in terms of ability is extremely low, and the debt of favor is super high. The other party is actually reluctant, but you imagine that he is fully competent and use emotion to pull him into the partnership. The result is that it can't last long. If you rely solely on friendship as a bond, you will soon be overdrawn.

Don’t think everyone wants to start a business

I have met many very smart people and many unique people in the process of recruiting, but at the last moment, they will hesitate. Those who see entrepreneurship as an opportunity will encourage themselves, but the problem is that too many people actually only see the risk side of entrepreneurship and tend to avoid risks when making choices.

Also, even capable people with dreams will have many practical situations. When recruiting for Zhihu, some people have seriously ill patients at home and cannot work overtime, some cannot change cities, and some are used to freedom. Sometimes, they call you just to know what you are doing.