More organizations are waking up to the fact that their employees are their most valuable resources. From providing employees more autonomy to offering incentives, modern businesses try every trick in the book to ensure employee satisfaction. Many businesses go one step further and come up with various policies and programs to engage their employees. The…

In college, your budget may have been difficult to manage. You may have had fluctuating income and expenses because of irregularity in your college and work schedules. You may have also relied on student loans and even credit cards at times to pay for various expenses. Now that you are graduating, you may be eager to gain control over your finances and manage your…

If you want to attract the best candidates, you need to make your career blog stand out. And it sure will with these 5 creative ideas!

How to make your career blog stand out?

If you want to attract the best candidates…

I remember years ago when I was recruiting on a Java role to which one of the requirements included 3+ years of solid COBOL development experience in addition to 5+ years of C++.  Being a contract developer myself I began to think to myself and wonder what kind of an environment is this to which they have three very different code bases?

The program manager at the time…

Looking to improve your employee onboarding process? Simply follow these 3 great tips!

Why should you improve your employee onboarding program?

Employee onboarding is a very method used in…

Sourcing and recruiting effective talent is only a small part of the Talent Capture equation.  In today's feverishly competitive market we simply do not have enough skilled professionals for a host of Cyber, Cloud and Developer roles, particularly in the Federal IT space.

In your organization how long does it take when you send a successfully screened candidate to a…

Codecall  is a community for Developers were you can learn new things, and post question to get answers. Not a lot of recruiters try to source there. The reason is simple they do not know how. Well to do this without worry you need go no further than into your bag of tricks and pull out an old tried and true tool, a simple search with some…

Books are a great way to obtain in-depth knowledge from your industry. Reading around your profession can help you face different areas of your job with confidence.

Training course providers TheKnowledgeAcademy.com have found in a study of 1,900 professionals…

Whether you’re entering the development world for the first time or looking to expand your existing skills, learning to use up and coming programming languages will keep you ahead of the curve (cue job flexibility and salary increases)! So which language should you learn? With hundreds of languages on the market, we’ve compiled some of the…

The Middle East has certainly faced economic and political challenges in recent years, which has led to uncertainty in the recruitment industry.

The collapse of oil prices in 2014-15 and reduction in government spending saw many businesses respond with caution and look to reduce costs and gain improvements in efficiency by restructuring, accepting more expatriates, merging roles and indeed redundancies.

As a result, although the region has historically seen skills shortages,…

This is a big month for TargetRecruit. We are launching Lightning, a brand new user interface making your software interactions faster, dynamic, and much easier to use. Built by Salesforce, the world’s #1 CRM platform, the Lightning UI dramatically changes the way you sell and recruit by accelerating customer…

IF you are looking for a job, and are a Chemical Engineer, or perhaps any other kind of highly-qualified, highly employable person, here is my advice:

The job market is currently good -- according to the Media, the Anti-Media, and many other indicators; but Summer is always a slower time in the Job Market (except when it isn’t), so now it’s probably a wise time to sit down, take note, and figure out ways to avoid NOT getting the job you want, when it’s pretty clear to you that: (1)…

What is this mystery practice?

One word - onboarding!

Well, I bet you didn’t expect this answer, right?

But bear with me - I’ll explain…

The Infographic resumes are made with the use of the graphic design elements which are differing from the traditional resume styles. In traditional resume, there is only use of the basic text which is listing the information from the top to bottom. Whereas in the infographic resume you will find the layout, icons, color and the font styling for organizing the content.

I have found it very useful in the past when I managed a small team of Recruiters to which they did their own sourcing to take them directly to client-site and have them understand the dynamic of the lab or space to which they were recruiting so that they understood for example it may be a 1,000,000 line Java code base to which they utilize the Eclipse IDE to which the…

Looking for some inspiration to spark your creativity? Check out these 5 awesome employee onboarding ideas!

Want to improve your employee onboarding process?

First of all, check out our detailed…

Many people hold a misconception that contracting is only for very experienced professionals.  

But if you have a few years of experience under your belt, contract work could be a lucrative option for you.

Here are five benefits – and three considerations – of stepping into the contract world early on in your working…

Top recruiters are applying The Toyota Way — the famed comprehensive management approach practiced by the Japanese carmaker — to talent acquisition to help them deliver the talent that their organizations need in this tight labor market.…