Employer Insights
Should You Consider Overqualified IT Talent?
Traditional recruiting strategies have typically discouraged hiring a candidate who is overqualified. The thinking is that these candidates will quickly grow bored and leave the company, creating a hole in the workforce and necessitating another long recruiting process. And while there is some validity to that way of thinking, hiring managers could be missing out on…
Read MoreWork-Life Balance in the Tech Industry
The tech industry is notorious for its intense deadlines, up-all-night work schedules, and massive pressure to deliver results. That is why it is also notorious for employee burnout, turnover, and low morale. As many tech companies have been late to discover, the industry as a whole struggles to provide employees with the kind of work-life…
Read MoreBig Data and Staffing – How Does it Impact the Hiring Process?
Big data is one of the most exciting and widely discussed tech topics to appear in decades. Thanks to our growing capacity to gather, store, and analyze data, we have an unparalleled capacity to spot trends and make actionable judgments based on the best information possible. Everything from healthcare to sports is in the midst…
Read MoreSlow Hiring Can Hurt in the Long Run
Conducting your recruiting process at the right pace requires you to strike a delicate balance. Go too fast, and you might end up hiring the wrong candidate. Go too slow, and you end up taxing your existing workforce. But many recruiters fail to understand how wide-ranging the effects of slow hiring really are on the…
Read MoreWhat a Company’s Online Reputation Says to Candidates
When you are thinking of hiring someone, you likely do at least a little bit of online research first to see if any red flags pop up. This has become a fairly standard practice in recruiting. But have you considered the fact that the candidate you are considering is likely researching you too, and they…
Read MoreIT Management and IT Leadership – What’s the Difference?
The concepts of IT management and IT leadership often get used interchangeably, but they both have distinct characteristics, and it’s important to understand what separates them. We have put together this list of binary concepts to help you understand the difference between IT managers and IT leaders, and why both are necessary for the success…
Read MoreHiring IT Candidates: Three Best Practices You Can’t Forget
As the field of human resources has grown in scope and complexity, the number of potential recruitment strategies has expanded exponentially. Unfortunately, many of them are contradictory, nonsensical, or just plain ineffective. If you are a recruiter that needs to find the best IT candidate right now, focus on these universally accepted hiring best practices.…
Read MoreStaffing for Big Data: What You Need to Know
Big data brings with it big challenges, big opportunities, and big pressures on your existing staff. Unfortunately, as many IT employers are discovering, finding tech professionals with the right blend of skills, experience and character to work productively with big data is a real challenge. The employment gap surrounding big data has been widely acknowledged…
Read MoreLooking to Hire for an IT Position? Consider Hiring a Veteran!
With the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan winding down, there are a large number of veterans with focused technical training reentering the workforce. If you are trying to fill a vacant IT position, consider hiring a veteran. It could end up being the fastest, easiest, and most effective recruitment process you’ve ever been a part…
Read MoreBaby Boomer Retirement: Is Your IT Department Ready?
Baby boomers make up 30 percent of the adult working population, and every month more that 250,000 of them turn 65. The consequences of baby boomer retirement have long been speculated upon and worried over, and now that the first wave is beginning to exit the work force, it is time to get serious about…
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