Employer Insights

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…

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,…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…