Recruiting Trends Columns About Culture Posted
My most recent Recruiting Trends column about culture is here.
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Your Boss Wants This Candidate; You Don’t
I emailed with a colleague today. He’s been looking for a position that shouldn’t be too hard to fill–but it is. Let’s assume the position is a development position. He interviewed a candidate. He’s not thrilled with the candidate; the candidate doesn’t have quite enough functional skill to do a good job. The interviewing team
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Hire for Intangibles; You Can Teach Technical Skills
A bunch of my clients are having trouble filling their positions. They can’t find a bazillion years of Java or .Net or something else. There is a relative candidate shortage, compared to the candidate glut of a few years ago. But of people start looking for attitude and general problem-solving ability and ability to collaborate,
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Changes to Blog URL and Feed
I’ve converted to WordPress as my blogging platform and now have changed the URL for the blog and the feed. You can see this post because of magical redirection. The URL is now https://www.jrothman.com/blog/htp. The feed is now https://www.jrothman.com/blog/htp/feed. Let me know if you have problems.
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Don’t Ask About Physics
I met a software developer recently, who studied physics as an undergrad. He’s now working in an IT organization on financial processing software. He’s part of the interviewing team for his organization. They’re trying to hire 6-7 more developers before the end of the year. He told me, “I like to ask a question about
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What Does a “Bad” Decision Look Like on a Candidate’s resume?
In his comment, Gregbo asks what I mean by “bad” judgment. Here’s an incomplete list: Frequent job changes, at least one job a year for several years Months of no discernible work or lag times between jobs. Titles that appear to move up and down the ladder. There are more, but those are the
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Ask About Salary in the Phone Screen
In his comment, Justice points to the other side of when to ask salary questions. Too early, and you have the problem outlined in When to Ask About Salary. Too late, and you have Justice’s problem. The way you manage the salary question–which is admittedly the start of the salary negotiation–is in the phone
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New Workshop: Hiring for an Agile Team
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been updating my web pages, which includes (finally) updating my workshops. One of the workshop you might be interested in is Hiring for an Agile Team. Hiring for an agile team can be a bit trickier than for more traditional project teams. The issues of culture, and personal
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Recruiting “Failed” Candidates Posted
See my article on Recruitingtrends.com, Recruiting “Failed” Candidates. You can’t leave comments there so leave them here. (Link updated to point to this site.)
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Deciphering Job Descriptions
Raven has a very funny take on what job descriptions really mean.