Tech Recruiting Priorities in Security Industry, Healthcare Software, and Cloud Hosting
Filed under: Jobs/Employment
This week, our tech recruiting priorities are: Core SDK Software Engineer & Cryptography Principal Engineer – Security Industry; Software Engineering Manager & Software Architect – Healthcare Software; Linux Systems Engineer, Security Engineer, & Technical Writer – Cloud Hosting; and Read more »
Why Should Employers Bother with Social Media?
Filed under: Best Practices, Employer, Hiring Strategies, Social Media
Why Should Employers Bother with Social Media?
By now your company probably has 3 or more social media accounts, and it has for some time. It is not always apparent why besides the fact that all your consultants and marketers said you should, and all your competitors do.
Knowing what the right metrics are and how to measure success is another challenge. If Coca Cola has 91 million likes/followers on their Facebook/LinkedIn/Twitter page, and your competitor has 486: Which should be the benchmark for your company? And are views more important than click-throughs? According to AdAge, the correlation between that click and a conversion is virtually nonexistent. Ug, that’s no help! Read more »
Crowdfunding to Double: The industry is booming, creating jobs, leveraging sales
Filed under: High Tech / IT / Software, Industry Info, Jobs/Employment
The crowdfunding industry is booming. More than 1,250 online platforms worldwide raising $16.2 billion last year, up 167% from 2013, according to crowdfunding research firm Massolution. And global crowdfunding is projected to reach $33-34 billion in 2015, with $6 billion of that in the US, double that of last year.
The benefits to companies go beyond the actual funds raised through the revenues that are crowd funded; there is a marketing benefit that translates into sales. Crowdfunded companies (via rewards, equity or debt) increased quarterly revenues by Read more »
Tech Recruiting Priorities in E-Learning and B2B Big Data
Filed under: Jobs/Employment
This week, our tech recruiting priorities are: Account Executives & Regional Sales Director – E-Learning; Java Engineer, Full-Stack Developer, Natural Language Data Scientist, & UI/UX Engineer – B2B Big Data; and Read more »
What a Recruiter Looks For When Reading Your Resume
Filed under: Job Search, Redfish Speaks, Resume
Jon Piggins – IT Recruiter, Sales & Marketing
While I do not look through all of the 3M resumes that Google receives every year, my day often starts with resume review. I search our company database, various job boards, LinkedIn, etc; and just one search may bring back hundreds of resumes. For example, this morning 293 new or updated resumes came up, and out of those I only downloaded three.
Pundits say that your resume gets between 6 and 15 seconds of attention. So what I am and other recruiters looking for in those precious seconds? Read more »
Recruiting Success Stories: Usman Shafique, Automation Engineer – Encryption/Security
Filed under: Featured Placements, High Tech / IT / Software
As a leader in secure mail and data solutions, this company has proven data-centric encryption and tokenization technology that protects the most sensitive information wherever it is: in the cloud, across mobile platforms, in big data environments, or within legacy computer systems. The Director of Engineering at Read more »
Tech Recruiting Priorities in eCommerce, Collaboration, Social Music Connection software
Filed under: High Tech / IT / Software
This week, our tech recruiting priorities are: Assistant Controller – eCommerce; Product Marketing Manager – Communication & Collaboration; Senior Backend Engineer – Social Music Connection; and Read more »
The Proper Care and Feeding of Millennials in the Workplace
Filed under: Employer, Hiring Strategies, Talent Acquisition, Talent Retention
Recruiting and retaining Millennials depends on understanding who they are and what they want and having a Millennial Talent Management Strategy.
Millennials are those born in the 80s and 90s more or less, basically the 20-40 year old work force. Millennials now make up just over one-third of the workforce (more than the Bookers or Generation X) and by 2020 Millennials will form 50% of the global workforce.
Described in many ways: ‘hopeful’, ‘narcissistic’, ‘nomads’. These digital natives certainly are tech-savvy, connected, mobile, and social. As opposed to previous generations, the millennials are much more attracted to on-demand work, and flexibility of all flavors. As compared to Gen X, this cohort is considered by hiring managers to be much more open to change (72% Millennials vs 28% Gen X), much more creative, money-driven, and adaptable, with a bit more of an entrepreneurial attitude. Millennials are a bit less confident (46%) than Gen X (54%), and much less team players (27%) as compared to Gen X (73%), according to KPCB’s Internet Trends 2015.
It’s a candidate’s market with low-tech unemployment and companies battling it out over the same employee pool in many areas. The Millennials have come of age and Read more »
Tech Trends: Cyber Crime & Internet/Email Security Costs & Solutions
Filed under: High Tech / IT / Software, Industry Info, Tech Trends
The tenth annual 2015 Cost of Data Breach Study, conducted by Ponemon Institute and sponsored by IBM, reports that the average cost for each lost or stolen record with sensitive or confidential information as grown from $201 to $217, and the average cost paid by companies located in the U.S. has gone from $5.9 million to $6.5 million. That is an 11% increase in the total cost of data breach, and there has been an 8% increase in the cost per lost or stolen record. 49% of data breach incidents are malicious or criminal attacks, 19% caused by negligent employees, and 32% result from Read more »
Tech Recruiting Priorities in App Security and Cloud Technology
Filed under: Jobs/Employment
This week, our tech recruiting priorities are: Reverse Engineer and DevOps Engineer – App Security; Software Engineer, Data Platform – Cloud Technology; and Read more »
