Employer Insights
Strategic 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…
Read MoreShould 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.…
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