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Your goal with any hire is to find talent that can make an impact. They do that by having the right mix of skills, experiences, and character traits. But don’t lose sight of the fact that you dull the impact of any hire when you fail to factor diversity into the equation.…

In part 1 of this series, we told you about three soft skills that are essential to seek out in IT candidates – creativity, teamwork, and communication. We are back to tell you about three more: Determination This is a quality that you look for in anyone you hire, but it’s especially important for IT professionals.…

What sort of challenges are holding your recruiting efforts back? Have you struggled to find talent with the skills you need now and in the future? Are you at a loss for how to evaluate candidates based on their culture fit?…

Everyone knows that diversity is a positive thing. Unfortunately, proving that using hard metrics has been an ongoing challenge. The benefits of diversity, while significant, are often abstract and hard to measure. Thanks to the efforts of enterprising researchers, however, it’s now becoming possible to quantify the real impact of a diverse workforce.…

A survey of hiring managers conducted by InformationWeek revealed that at 73 percent of companies with fewer than 1, 000 employees and 88 percent of companies with more than 1, 000 there was an IT talent shortage in at least one mission-critical area.…

The concept of “values” is one that gets a lot of lip service in the business community. Companies want to commit to a cause but more often make decisions based on cost, time, reputation, etc. That is a shame, because prioritizing values really does have an impact on the quality of outcomes, especially when it comes to staffing.…

If you’re struggling to find the IT talent you need, the problem could be that you’re simply looking in the wrong places. There is still a place in recruiting for traditional job boards/platforms, but the search for talent has increasingly shifted to new venues, namely social media.…

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average amount of time an employee spends in any one position is 4.6 years. But for younger professionals – a demographic heavily represented in IT fields – the average is only 3.0 years.…

Freelancing is quickly becoming a common feature of the modern workforce, forcing IT leaders to ask a difficult question – should you let your team freelance on the side? The opportunities are certainly there, and the appeal of making extra money is obvious.…

The staffing industry, like most industries, is in a constant state of evolution. Some things remain constant, but many more things grow, shrink, shift, and change on a yearly or even monthly basis. Staffing industry experts spend a lot of time trying to forecast these developments, and many believe that MSPs that rely on a VMS will be in much higher demand in 2016 and beyond.…

There is a big difference between an adequate IT team and a dream IT team. Teams that are adequate are able to meet expectations. Dream teams come in before deadlines, under budgets, and ahead of quotas thanks to their talent and innovative thinking.…

With the help of a recruiter your company can attract top talent but if you can’t retain the talent or attract repeat contractors you may not be getting the ROI you had hoped from using a staffing agency. Just as recruiters keep candidates in their pools for later placement, companies can help retain and satisfy returning talent in many ways.…

Before you delve into the comparison of salaries between data science and business intelligence (BI) professionals, you need to know the responsibilities of each position. Data science deals with huge volumes of structured or unstructured data to extract insights. It’s a field that relies on processes and systems for extraction.…

The team at Robert Half Technology has crafted a comprehensive salary guide for 2016. In the guide, you will find that business analysts, business systems analyst, and financial analysts were listed as hot jobs for which companies are seeking competent business analyst candidates.…

You understand how important it is to scrutinize a potential employee’s past. After all, how can you forecast what they will do unless you understand what they have already done? But in order to get the complete picture you’re looking for, you need to look beyond the resume and cover letter and conduct a background check as well – especially if you are hiring for an IT position.…

Software testing programmers are the genius minds behind the computer programs we use every day. For software testers, work begins after a program is developed. They ensure that the software is fully functional, sometimes in addition to developing systems and applications.…

As an employer, you’re used to job seekers courting you, not the other way around. But considering how stiff the competition is for top IT candidates, you could easily find yourself bending over backwards to bring the best of the best into your ranks.…

Through the IoT CoE (Centre of Excellence), we will democratise innovation by providing an entire stack of tech tools for innovators. – K Vishwananthan, VP, NASSCOM (Click To Tweet) As the year draws to a close, one discussion that will only continue to grow in scope is that of the Internet of Things.…

This is a question that haunts all recruiters – is it better to look forward or backward? Basing a hiring decision on experience makes sense, but past performance doesn’t always indicate future performance. Relying instead on potential is a gamble, one that can pay off big or cost you everything.…

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