Employer Insights
Want to Attract Top Talent?
Competition for the top talent in IT is fierce, and for good reason – companies wrestling with a skills gap and struggling to recruit qualified professionals can’t afford to let dynamic, forward-focused candidates pass them up for the competition. Bringing this top talent into your fold, however, is a multi-step process that is significantly different…
Read MoreHiring IT Talent for Cultural Fit
Just because you’ve found a candidate who has all the education, experience, and skills you’re looking for doesn’t mean the recruitment process is over. That’s because it’s just as important to consider a candidate in terms of their cultural fit – their ability to reflect and thrive within the culture of your company. Here are…
Read MoreDos and Don’ts of IT Performance Reviews
Performance reviews are a valuable tool for getting you and your employees on the same page. Unfortunately, if not handled properly, a performance review can deliver more insults than insights. The key is to approach the process in a thoughtful way and treat it as more than just an administrative waste of time. We’ve listed…
Read MoreHiring IT Talent on Growth Potential
When you need to fill a vacancy, it’s tempting to search for the candidate that best meets your immediate needs. But what if the candidate you select doesn’t have the characteristics to rise to the next level and make a greater impact at your company? Ultimately, you’ve sacrificed a long-term opportunity to solve a short-term…
Read MoreDon’t Lose Top Talent During the Hiring Process
Everything you know about the hiring process gets reversed when you are trying to attract top talent. Instead of requiring the candidate to sell themselves to you, you are selling your company to the candidate. It requires an entirely different strategy, but if you want to fill your workforce with the best and the brightest,…
Read MoreIs Your Company Suffering From Attrition?
If your company is suffering from attrition, we would like to offer a counterintuitive solution – recruit better. That’s right, the problem isn’t your office culture, or that you can’t offer biannual raises, it’s that you haven’t recruited with a focus on loyalty, consistency, and retention. If you want to build a stable, long-term workforce,…
Read MorePreparing Your IT Workforce for New Employees
Successful IT teams often rely on a delicate balance of skills, personalities, and indefinable qualities. That’s why it can be such a challenge to introduce new members. Change of any kind can be hard for all sides to adapt to, and what worked before could suddenly be compromised for reasons you never anticipated. If you…
Read MoreStrategic Staffing for IT
Strategic staffing is a concept that didn’t exist until fairly recently but that has quickly gained traction throughout the corporate world, especially in IT departments. The basic concept is to anticipate your future staffing needs in strategic terms, and build mechanisms into your workforce that allow you to quickly and effectively change its character as…
Read MoreRecruiting Software Engineers
Consider this statistic reported by Glassdoor – 25% of software engineers plan to start looking for a new job within three months. That’s important to know for any employer with software engineers on the payroll. First, it implies that talented engineers will soon be looking for new opportunities. Second, it implies that your current workforce…
Read MoreOvercoming the Tech Skills Gap
With the job market having been so poor in recent years, it’s understandable to think that companies are better equipped than ever to fill vacant positions. After all, with so many qualified professionals looking for work, there must be a dearth of qualified candidates clamoring for every available position. It has more frequently been the…
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