Tag: Recruiting
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Values create value: Hire culturally aligned IT talent
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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7 Ways To Predict A Good IT Project Hire. But First, Ignore Education
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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Seven Lessons That IT Recruitment Can, Like, Learn From Love Island
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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IT Recruitment – Passion, Privilege or Pain?
“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…