I had to make one of those dreaded calls to customer service. All attempts to solve the problem online were blocked, so I dialed the number – which was not … Read more
How To Get Clients to Make Faster Decisions So You Don’t Lose Candidates
Dear Barb: How do you force your clients to make decisions faster? I just lost two candidates who had completed final interviews because my client didn’t … Read more
IT Security Professionals: Well Paid and Staying Where They Are
Information security professionals are among the most stable of tech workers. They are paid well, the majority got raises last year — 20% of them of … Read more
Hiring Wisdom: 6 Questions to Follow For Effective Recruiting
Effective recruiting begins with the following questions: Who do you want to recruit? (In other words, which specific mental and physical capacities, … Read more
Expect the Tight IT Market to Get Tighter This Year
Even as the number of tech jobs in the U.S. was steadily climbing in 2012, hitting an all-time high last month, workers were feeling just a bit less … Read more
The Candidate Experience? Survey Says, That Frankly, It Stinks
I’ve got two college-age kids in various stages of their first real job search, and I find myself saying the same thing over and over to them: … Read more
Why Following Up With Job Candidates Is Incredibly Crucial
With tens or even hundreds of candidates applying for jobs at your company, it can be rather time-consuming to keep each one in the loop about the status … Read more
Hiring Wisdom: How to Separate the Producers from the Pretenders
If you are looking to hire producers, look for these four traits: They don’t let anything stop them from being successful. They look for things that need … Read more
Hiring a Targeted Innovator Requires Bold Approaches
The top 30 boldest actions for recruiting individual innovators I just returned from the always-powerful CoDev conference, where a prime focus was on the … Read more
Weekly Wrap: Major Employers Expect 2013 Hires to Meet or Exceed Last Year
I’m having a hard time getting a good fix on the current state of the economy, or to be more specific, the state of the employment market. Everything … Read more