Tag: IT Project Recruitment
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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…
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Eight Advantages a Specialist IT Recruiter Gives To Your Business
“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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Cultural Fit: Hire IT talent like you’d do a jigsaw
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…
