Where do you advertise? How do you portray your company? Do you get involved in local meetups? Do you contribute to Open Source? Why do the employees that do de

Where do you advertise? How do you portray your company? Do you get involved in local meetups? Do you contribute to Open Source? Why do the employees that do decide to leave you, leave? What do they say about you? Do you know the going rate for your open positions? How do you know thats the going rate and how are you confident that that is a rate your potential candidates are likely to accept? Is there a big-brand competitor nearby that sucks up your potential candidates? Is your office hard to get to? Is there a local tech scene or is it a tech desert? Is your company in a non-sexy industry that has a common perception of being particularly boring (eg. Enterprise Java billing middleware) or evil (eg. recording industry, patent troll, oil industry)? And thats before we get to how you are filtering resumes. It can very well be the case that there is a talent shortage in your area/domain. But I think its very hard to conclusively say so on the basis of a lack of qualified candidates flooding through every open opportunity.