Posts Tagged ‘IT recruiting firms’
Review: "Invaluable Knowledge: Securing Your Company's Technical Expertise"
“Invaluable Knowledge: Securing Your Company’s Technical Expertise” focuses on the retention side of technical talent management. Any technical recruiter who has had the experience of placing a highly qualified technical candidate in a high-paying IT job, only to have the candidate leave the position prior to the contract end for a higher salary, more attractive…
Read MoreTechnical Recruiters, Are You Getting Enough Sleep?
Pritchard’s “101 Strategies for Recruiting Success: Where, When, and How to Find the Right People Every Time” discusses the technical hiring process, and how best to manage the process of finding and keeping great technical candidates. Any technical headhunter knows that the longer a top technical candidate stays in a contract, the better it is…
Read MoreReview:"Technical Recruiting Success for IT Firms"
AVID Technical Resources reviews “Technical Recruiting Success for IT Firms” by Dawson. In the book, Dawson speaks from his high level of success in technical recruiting, and his perspective as a technical staffing consultant. His recruiting techniques involve IT staffing secrets he has identified and developed over time. His check lists offer ways to run…
Read MoreReview: "Secrets from a Body Broker: A Hiring Handbook for Managers, Recruiters, and Job Seekers"
Technical recruiters will find Rey’s book, Secrets from a Body Broker: A Hiring Handbook for Managers, Recruiters, and Job Seekers, packed with valuable tips for personnel management. She starts by revealing two secrets – Secret #1 is “Discrimination is the cornerstone of each and every hiring decision. This is because hiring decisions are personal decisions made…
Read MoreReview: "Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky's Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent"
In the Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent, Joel Spolsky details the steps that go into interviewing top technical talent, and into finding that quality of technical candidates in the first place. He goes into the technical hiring process, how to extract information from tech-savvy candidates on their potential technical efficiency levels. He…
Read MoreSecrets for Making your Recruiter your Best Friend
In today’s job search environment, recruiters often play an instrumental role in a candidates job search, whether the job is in the medical, financial or technical industry, or the position sought is contract or permanent. The reason is that recruiters spend each work day doing for a living what candidates do only during periods of…
Read MoreTechnical Recruiting Companies Responding to Your Emails?
Do you fire off emails instantaneously and always provide an update? I will let you in on a little secret: not everyone is as prompt and efficient as you. It can be frustrating waiting around on a response from hiring managers or IT recruiting supervisors for the go on a project or decision. Before technical…
Read MoreIT Recruiting Companies Working with White Noise
Do you work in an IT staffing environment that is cluttered with noise such as music, loud talking, or random distractions? Perhaps you work in a dead silent area where you can hear a pin drop. If you enjoy these conditions, by all means continue working! If you find that you are having trouble focusing,…
Read MoreBlogging about Technical Recruiting Companies
You had a rough day at the IT recruiting office. Then you come home and are greeted by the blinding light of your laptop. You open WordPress and immediately pour your heart out about the unfair raise other technical recruiters were rewarded while you were overlooked. Or perhaps you go on a rant about the…
Read MoreTechnical Recruiters, Are You Getting Enough Sleep?
Life is too short to sleep away nights and mornings, but if you do not get enough sleep you could be ending your life too soon. IT headhunters often pride themselves on lack of sleep and view those who indulge in the recommended eight hours as lazy or incompetent. Before you shave off that extra…
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