Recruiting
Outdated Interview Questions and How To Improve
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You have a lot riding on your interview process. Analysts, application development specialists, and engineers are in high demand, which means they spend a lot of time with hiring managers. If you ask the same outdated questions as everyone else, highly skilled IT talent may write off your company as…
8 Tools for Engaging and Managing Remote Employees
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More and more companies are realizing the benefits of a remote workforce. However, keeping remote employees engaged and productive can be difficult. Using a staffing firm makes the process of hiring remote even easier since the agency can ensure this employee has the skills needed to complete the job. Not…
Tips for Recruiting a Superior IT Staff
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Innovative technology is an essential part of your business operations, but finding the right IT talent proves difficult in a job market filled with a significant skill gap. The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts an additional one million positions for IT workers will open up in the near future. You’re…
Tech Talent Wars: 5 Ways to Lure Star Tech Workers
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When tech juggernauts compete to scoop up valuable IT talent, what is a mainstream company to do? Also, a shortage of qualified tech workers — in spite of the projected BLS statistic of a 12 percent decade-long growth rate for tech work by 2024 — doesn’t help. However, there’s more…
How to Create a Strong Job Listing and Attract the Right Candidates
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If you’re hiring for a critical role on your team, there are more things to consider than simply describing the day-to-day tasks. Your goal is to create a listing that attracts top talent, so you need to be concise and enticing. What is interesting about your job opening? What makes…
Understanding How to Recruit and Impress IT Talent
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Today’s job climate is a product of time and progress, and its timeline scatters with the bell curves of industries that have found prominence and just as quickly lost it. Whether information technology will eventually succumb to the slow slope of passing relevance is a question for another day, but…
4 Ways to Find Information Technology Problem Solvers
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If you’re hiring information technology or EDI specific workers for contract or permanent positions, you need people who look for good solutions. Be familiar with these four questions, which allow an individual to showcase their problem-solving skills. #1: After Describing the Project to Be Completed, Ask, “What Types of…
Top Tools for Mobile Developers
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Mobile applications are taking up more space on our phones than ever before, and the market for mobile app development is increasing exponentially with it. App downloads are expected to exceed 225 billion in 2016 and the total market for apps will approach 77 billion by 2017, so having the…
Common Hiring Techniques That Inadvertently Break the Law
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Many small and mid-size businesses use an informal hiring process. While most business managers know the basics of anti-discrimination law, such as not making hiring decisions based on race or gender, they may accidentally run afoul of these laws if proper checks aren’t in place. Make sure you have clear…
What to Expect From a Reputable Recruiter
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While most agencies and recruiters maintain high integrity and squeaky clean reputations, staffing does have a seedy underbelly; at the fringes of our world lurk all manner of sharks and crooks, eager to make a quick buck by devouring the ill-advised. Here are some things that, as a marketable candidate,…