Every year, it seems that hiring and retaining the best talent gets harder. Especially when the best talent now has infinitely more opportunities than ever before. I feel your pain. Say you’re an IT firm and you have a best in class Project Manager, time was that you’d perhaps look over your shoulder at the […]
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Sat on a train, I overheard a refreshing view on IT recruitment this week. I was trying not to listen to the conversation the chap opposite was having with his office, but you know how it is!? The man mentioned IT Project Management and was discussing a strategic hire that his firm had to make
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Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh once said that his bad hires had cost the company “well over $100 million.” Whilst it’s reassuring that a firm that usually gets everything so right … occasionally doesn’t … it is mind boggling how much a bad hire can cost. I mean, there’s the obvious cost of having to recruit
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Businesses that are reliant on IT need to pay special attention to their recruitment and retention strategies in 2018 as a recent survey suggests that a third (32%) of IT professionals hope to switch jobs within the next 12 months. Given that just about every business is now
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Is now the time to rethink how you recruit specialist IT talent? Are your candidates getting profiled by people who have never performed that role? Do you feel that all your recruiters appear to be using the same CV databases? Are you forking out upfront fees with no guarantee of success? Our sister organisation Stoneseed,
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Predicting job performance is vital, after all, that’s the whole point of recruitment. You want to hire someone who will stick around! So, you read what a candidate has written in their CV and you try to make an objective assessment, creating an “identikit” picture in your head based on what they’ve written. That can
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So I was watching Love Island and like, apart from noticing, like, how many times the contestants, like, say, “like” in every sentence. it dawned on me how much IT Recruitment can learn from it. Run with me! Don’t Be Fooled By The Spray Tan! I wonder how long the contestants spent in the local
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“If you can win the war in talent, everything else changes,” so said SendGrid CEO Sameer Dholakia describing how he believes “recruiting is a mission-critical function” for a business, not a task that you should crowbar into your busy day after all your other tasks have been crossed off your list. In his “Focus on
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“Talent supply remains the number one challenge facing digital tech businesses in the UK”, this according to Tech Nation’s 2017 survey. It found that over half (55%) of employers said THIS was their main business challenge. According to Robert Half, the tech talent shortage is “no longer just an inconvenience for employers — it’s quickly
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Have you ever hired a new team member who interviewed brilliantly, had exactly the qualifications you were looking for and on paper had the right experience listed on their CV … but somehow just didn’t fit in? It happens a lot. Making the perfect hire is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle and while these
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