Tips to Succeed in your next Phone Interview Phone interviews are tough. You don’t know the person. You’ve never met them before. You can’t see their reactions or gauge their interest level. There is something about it being the 1st round of interviews, your first interaction and communication with the company, and not being face [...]
Interviewing the IT Recruiter Today’s job market is as competitive as it has ever been and choosing between recruiters can be equally taxing. When “you hit the job market”, you likely post your resume on a job board. Immediately, you become inundated with calls from recruiters. So how do you pick the right one to [...]
Developing your DevOps Skills If there is one constant thing about technology, it is change. It started with mainframe computing, then minis, PCs, distributed systems, client-server, open systems, internet, ecommerce, mobile devices, ITIL, app stores, and now we have DevOps. So what is DevOps, why can it be beneficial, and why is it an important [...]
Is Social Media a Requirement for Organizations Today? Social media has become a necessity in today’s world. It delivers everything we want to know about pretty much anything in a split second. While some embrace it and use social media regularly, others still do not. So what role does social media play in today’s job [...]
Finding the Right IT Talent We all know it can be difficult to find the right qualified candidates especially to fill your open IT jobs. The average amount of time it takes to fill a job has been increasing for years. Our eyes quickly glaze over when we look at the typical job boards. Tapping [...]
Recruiting During Tough Employment Times The US Unemployment rate was 4.7% in May according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Not taking under-employment or any other factors into mind, the reality is it is HARD for employers to find people. This difficulty is rampant in highly skilled trades like Information Technology, and low -end labor [...]
Hiring Process: Getting Bogged Down in Internal Red Tape Is it time for a new hiring approach? According to Torsten Slok, Chief Economist of Deutsche Bank, it’s never taken this long to find a worker in America. At 31 days average time to fill, jobs now remain open longer than any time in the past. [...]
The Changing Tide in the Workforce Only 6 percent of associate degrees and 13 percent of bachelor’s degrees granted to females were in a STEM field[i]. Where are the rest of the females and their interest in STEM careers? Assuming another 37-44% of female students are pursuing higher education, what careers are they pursuing? What [...]
When Recruiters Have no Clue Finding the right recruiter can be a job in itself. A technical manager I know posted a scathing review on LinkedIn about a competing agency. Apparently, he gets numerous bot emails about how they have the perfect job for him, identifying a specific position they have in mind. Apparently, they [...]
Engineering Job Trends are on the Up Kane Partners is a Philadelphia based technical recruitment firm with clients across the United States. Assignments coming in for our engineering practice have picked up significantly since the new year and seem to be building momentum, even as we enter the normally slower summer months. It is too [...]
