Passive candidates are great candidates for a number of reasons. They will be honest about their work experience and skills because they’re not dying to leave their current position and they’re probably not interviewing with other companies. Plus, if they’re content with their current employer, they’re probably the type of person who will be content with a new company if [...]
Staffing challenges in the IT department can cause problems across the office. Despite being part of the back-office, staff that isn’t interacting directly with clients and customers, IT staff manages emergencies both major and minor on daily basis. There’s simply no IT department where IT staff sit around waiting for something to do. Here are a few common IT staffing [...]
For those of you in the “trenches” of daily recruiting, it is pretty obvious that the job market has become very tight for many positions; especially many technical roles. Gone are the days from a couple of years ago when a company could just run an Internet ad for a position and get several great candidates who applied. This was [...]
It’s a fact of life. Americans work longer hours and more weeks per year compared with other industrialized countries. Add to that Americans take less vacation time, and retire later in life. Why Do Americans Work More Than Other Countries What needs to change in order to work less? Of course the obvious answer is to stop working so hard, [...]
