Skills, Experience, Culture Developing a culture for your team or organization is a process that is built over time. It’s a mindset created and followed by the leadership team which trickles down throughout the rest of the organization. Developing that culture is a process. It doesn’t happen overnight with a trendy statement or some flashy [...]
Don't Overlook the Candidate Starting a Second Career Starting a second or a new career can be a difficult decision for any person to make. Making the choice of leaving a profession that you know and are comfortable with, to go into a completely new professional direction can be daunting. There are be many different [...]
How Technology Assists (or hurts) Recruiting According to a survey conducted by the American Staffing Association Workforce Monitor, 80% of Americans think that applying for a job today seems like sending their resume into a black box, while 69% of the job aspirants believe or feel that the hiring process today is far too impersonal. [...]
Job Descriptions Should be to the Point Crafting the right job description is a primary step that will help you attract the best candidates for the job. With millions of online job listings, the job description can help your job post stand out in a crowd. More importantly, it can ensure that the most capable [...]
Hiring in a Hot Job Sector Hiring choices: By most standards, we are now in the hottest STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) job market since the end of the go-go 90’s. Just ask any technical recruiter on the corporate or agency side about their rising ‘time-to-fill’ metrics. Time-to-fill is an important measurement of the number [...]
Technical and engineer recruiters looking for the perfect candidate, you know the one: not too much experience, not too little; not too much money, but not too cheap; not too many jobs, not too much attitude, but just enough so he/she projects an air of confidence. Well for both corporate and agency IT Recruiters, Engineering [...]
What are you Worth? When you find yourself in salary negotiations, circumstances will vary greatly, so good manners and common sense should trump all. However, here are some tips that apply to most situations: 1. Be patient. In other words, don’t rush the negotiating process. Many otherwise promising candidacies have been disrupted and even derailed [...]
Breaking Down the Recruiting Stereotype Finding a recruiter or a great staffing agency to partner with when hiring for those “tough to fill” roles can be a bit like blind dating- you’re never sure what you are going to get. One seldom finds a perfect match on the first, second or even third try. To [...]
Exploring the Possibilities of a Good LinkedIn Profile Welcome to a New Year! The stock market is exploring new positive territory, we have a new tax code designed to increase the domestic activities of corporate America by encouraging the repatriation of offshore earnings, and a regulatory climate that is friendly to a growing economy. Regardless [...]
Updating your Interview Process We hear from candidates and companies alike how frustrating the interviewing and hiring process can be. Very little has changed over the last few decades with the way interviews are conducted. Some of that is good and some of that is bad. You would think that with the ever-changing world of [...]
