The car crash that is 2020 has yet to slow down as the world battles a global pandemic and a continuous stream of horrible news. Perhaps one of the most … Read more
Certifications Are the New Degrees for Tech Jobs
An important trend started in early 2018 that has been changing the foundation of higher education. More than 15 of the biggest names in business went … Read more
The Usual Perks Will No Longer Lure Tech Talent
The Class of 2020 was walking into the best job market ever — until it wasn’t. Back in the fall, employers had to show their best hand to bring in top tech … Read more
Are Coding Challenges Your Best and Worst Frenemies?
IT-related jobs are the poster child for the “talent crunch” that defines our current labor market. With almost a million unfilled IT jobs, 3.7 million … Read more
7 Ways to Attract Young Tech Talent
How do you capture the attention of young professionals to recruit and retain them effectively in today’s times? This question is especially important in … Read more
Sourcing on Dev.to
Part I by Aaron Decker Dev.to is becoming a popular site for programmers who want to read and write technical articles. But is it useful for sourcing? Here … Read more
Software Engineers Do Not Leave Their Jobs for the Reason You Think They Do
Why do software engineers leave their jobs? I asked this question in a large Slack group for programmers, and, well, it got a huge response — I think there … Read more
Let’s Talk About the Dev Bootcamp Talent Pool
You don’t need to tell any IT sourcer that we’re in a tight labor market for tech talent. We feel it every day, and it seems that the number of available … Read more
Setting up a Global Agile Sourcing Team – Part 1
Introducing the Sourcing Function and Splitting Functions In this series of articles, I will come back to the presentation I delivered at SourceCon in … Read more
I’m a Tech Sourcer Learning to Code
You don’t need to know how to code to be an outstanding sourcer. Not knowing how to code won’t stop you from being able to dig into dev communities to find … Read more