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Have You Thought About Looking For Freelance Developers Who Might Be Interested In A Full-Time Gig?

Struggling to find new developer candidates?  Like many of you, I think about all of the possible avenues where we might harvest great and new talent. 

Being a contract developer in the digital solutions world I only did freelance work as I wanted to have a career outside of just developing.  Don't get me wrong I LOVE to develop but my true passion is Talent Sourcing. …

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Added by Kevin M. Thomas on August 23, 2018 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Collaboration vs. Competition: The Rise Of The Split Network

I was at the end of my rope. My client, who I'd done a ton of work with, needed that Python developer and I had nothing. Everyone I had in the old "Python Resumes" folder was either really happy in their current roles or simply not interested in this spot. I fancy myself a bit of wordsmith…

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Added by joshua sklut on August 22, 2018 at 12:00pm — No Comments

How to source on the lesser known sites!! Snipplr l!

Snipplr lets your store and share all of your commonly used pieces of code and HTML with other programmers and designers. 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…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on August 20, 2018 at 6:39pm — No Comments

Key Findings for a Chief Human Resources Officer to Know

Recruitment is a big game. Just like any game, where different individuals from different groups are fighting each other to grab a piece of place under the sun, recruitments make a company survive. Companies are improving every bit of their own spaces and people to attract candidates. No wonder, employee experience, candidate experience, ergonomics, and culture rank high for these companies and all these big terms ranked big time last year. They are going to remain on the top this year…

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Added by Lucia Adams on August 20, 2018 at 2:54am — No Comments

5 Employee Engagement Tactics that No Longer Work (And What to Do Instead)"



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…

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Added by Harsh Tripathy on August 16, 2018 at 1:30am — No Comments

Sometimes The Job Description Just Ain't Right

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…

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Added by Kevin M. Thomas on August 15, 2018 at 7:30am — No Comments

How to source on the lesser known sites!! Codecall!

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…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on August 13, 2018 at 1:57pm — 1 Comment

Does YOUR Organization Have A Successful Talent Capture Strategy?

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…

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Added by Kevin M. Thomas on August 14, 2018 at 8:00am — No Comments

5 Must Read Books For HR Professionals













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…

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Added by Joanne McDonagh on August 13, 2018 at 4:32am — No Comments

The Evolving Recruitment Industry of the Middle East

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,…

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Added by Ruby Sharma on August 10, 2018 at 6:03am — No Comments

A Surprising Practice That Can Help You Both Hire and Retain Talent

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…

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Added by Kristina Martic on August 9, 2018 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Understanding Your Client Space When Engaging Candidates

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…

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Added by Kevin M. Thomas on August 7, 2018 at 4:00pm — No Comments

How Top Recruiters Are Applying "The Toyota Way" to Talent Acquisition Part 2

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.…

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Added by Oliver Zhou on August 6, 2018 at 4:30pm — No Comments

How to source on the lesser known sites!! Bytes!

Bytes.com is a community for Developers and IT Professionals. Join 423044 members and discuss topics such as software development, networking, security, and more. 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…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on August 6, 2018 at 1:17pm — No Comments

Top 6 Employee Onboarding Statistics

These top 6 employee onboarding statistics prove that onboarding matter more than you think!

Building a case for employee onboarding

You probably already know that a…

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Added by Kristina Martic on August 3, 2018 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Taking a Personalized Recruitment Approach: How to Appeal to Individual Interests

As recruiters, we are at an interesting and pivotal crossroads. On one hand, thanks to technological innovation and educational advancement, recent graduates and those just entering the workforce are some of the most qualified, educated professionals we’ve ever seen. On the other hand, competition is fierce for their skills and as such, we’re…

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Added by Courtney Myers on August 1, 2018 at 6:21pm — No Comments

Using Marketing Videos for Recruiting

A lot of times, when we embark on a mission of finding new talent for our company, we think that posting an attractive description on job boards and hiring a recruiting firm is enough to seal the deal. After all, there are always people looking to make a change or advance in their career, so it’s…

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Added by Or Hillel on August 1, 2018 at 2:19pm — No Comments

How to Improve Your Job Post to Get More Applicants

Alexandra Petrini, Director of Marketing at OneWire

Alexandra Petrini, Director of Marketing at …

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Added by OneWire on July 31, 2018 at 12:30pm — 2 Comments

How to source on the lesser known sites!! Daniweb!

DaniWeb IT Discussion Community is an online IT message board. The website initially gained attention amongst the vBulletin community for its unique method of building an entire site, including proprietary …

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Added by Dean Da Costa on July 30, 2018 at 1:38pm — No Comments

5 Tips For Creating Great Recruitment Marketing Content

How to create great recruitment marketing content?

The task of creating great recruitment marketing content is…

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Added by Kristina Martic on July 30, 2018 at 1:00pm — 2 Comments

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