Thank you very much for supporting and sharing the first part of “Glossary for Tech Recruiters“. We decided to look through more than 300 resumes of Software Engineers and find the most used tech terms in internet business.

This way the…

Globally in 2015, companies were sure to spend roughly $514 billion on marketing campaigns to increase the sales of products and services. The competition for new customers is at an all time high. Companies are spending record amounts on winning business, but what about the business they already have? During a recent conference …

‘Greasing’ the Way for Recruiters

One day I was working in the Crelate Inc. West Coast office and CEO, Aaron Elder came into my office and proclaimed, “We want to help recruiters ‘Be the Grease’”! I was immediately intrigued by the metaphor and asked for a little more clarification. Aaron…

Very often, when you need to write something, you may feel the lack of creativity. Actually, this is quite normal for people who write regularly.

Every time you try to find a perfect way to influence your target audience, you risk falling into perfectionism and exhausting your brain. With such approach, instead of writing…

The majority of students do not like writing and consider it to be the most horrible task at school and university. But still much depends on the ability to write essays. It’s really a wonderful way to develop you writing skills, improve cognitive abilities and thinking.

You should do…

The ability to write in a good way is really such an important and necessary skill in 21st century. The digital world made it even easier to improve it. How to prepare students for various challenges? Blogging is one of the ways to develop various communication and writing skills. Such a project will motivate any student. They would start writing…

Yes, the complaint that students are not listening to you is one of the most frequent among teachers. You give one direction and see them doing completely different things. It really irritates and makes you crazy. Many of them think that you would repeat the information thousands of times. Before starting…

Pros and Cons of IT Services Outsourcing

Although outsourcing is accepted as being the future of business growth, many industries fear, often with good reason, that this will result in loss of operational control and a fall in quality and standards. Nowhere is this truer than with IT where high operational costs, concerns about intellectual property and the need to find and retain the right people are major issues. That being said, IT companies have realized that…

I love technology. I enjoy nothing more than trying out the latest app or discovering something new I can do with my programs that will positively impact my work (and make me look like the genius who came up with the original idea).

Having said all this, my experience of working in the recruitment market has taught me that not one piece of technology can…

Best practices

How to Hire

Henry Ward, CEO at eShares, gives common hiring misconceptions a reality check: Don’t be afraid of…

We’ve spoken about online Employee and Employer Branding extensively and with everything getting digitalised, using Social Media to capture Talent and fill positions faster makes sense.

Having said that the real question is whether this can be done and if yes how should one go about gathering Talent, therefore @SourcingAdda we decided that the best way to get these doubts cleared is by asking Talent Acquisitionists. Hence we conducted…

Big man on campus: Effective College recruiting

As of 2015, millennials represent the largest segment of the U.S. workforce. While most millennials are either just embarking on their careers or employed in entry-level roles, the generation represents the business leaders of…

The future of a company depends on the future of its people. When new talent enters the workforce they are by definition inexperienced. The few top percent of university students will stand out - the ones who have already started a business, earned a research grant, or completed some other remarkable work - but the majority of university students will not have the track record to…

Creating a start-up company is a risky business and one only taken on by confident entrepreneurs who truly believe in their product. So what happens when it’s time to begin selling the product, but the company founder has no idea how to sell? The answer: do not hire a sales representative.

Hiring is a Bet You Don’t Want to Take

This seems to be backwards…

For many, talking to recruiters is only one step better than picking the phone up to a PPI call! The general assumption of most people is that recruiters don’t understand their market and have very little interest in anything other than a quick buck. In the majority of cases this assertion is absolutely right.

As a result they disengage in the conversation and treat…

The generation gap between baby boomers (including births between 1946 and 1964, according to the team at DevelopIntelligence) and millennials (including births between 1982 and 2000 and also known as Gen-Y) looms large, especially in the workplace. In the first three months of 2015, the Pew Research Center…

As I have stated earlier I am currently in the process of reading Michael Rother’s Toyota Kata. In the book the point is made as to who should be the one who is considered the SME…

Most professionals are familiar with the role of a recruiter, however many do not understand the inner workings of executive search firms. If you are contacted by an executive recruiter, or are thinking about reaching out to one or more search firms to help you hire, it will be beneficial to understand how they operate. Here’s what you need to know.

Why…