It happened again. One of your top candidates for a job you're desperately trying to fill just called to inform you that he has decided to accept another offer.  You knew three offers were already on the table, but your clunky hiring process prevented you from making an offer sooner. Now, this highly qualified, highly skilled IT professional is going to work for a competitor.

This scenario is not unusual. In fact, it’s becoming the norm within the technology industry. Industry reports and professional polls like Computerworld’s annual employment survey forecast strong competition for IT workers in 2011. Finding candidates with high-demand skills is challenging indeed. These workers are hard to find since many of them are passive job seekers. But once you do find the right person for the job, too often it’s too late. By the time you’re ready to make an offer, the candidate has moved on. 

If your company hasn’t begun to at least define strategies for acquiring top talent in today’s market, you need to start immediately! Agile’s new whitepaper “Four Winning Talent Strategies for the New IT” offers CIOs, hiring managers and HR four strategies (just like the title says) to develop and implement in 2011. These strategies will help IT organizations identify superior performers and speed the hiring process so that you’re in a position to make an offer before the competition does.

Agile invites you to download our free whitepaper, read it and let us know what you think.  Are there other winning strategies your company has in place? Agile hopes you find the information useful, and we welcome  your feedback.  Here’s to a winning 2011!