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There is a great saying: “If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.” Tech searches follow a common recipe that offer limited results; especially when up against another agency with the same client search and time to submit is critical. It goes like this.  New position comes in and tech stack identified.  Recruiters ...

When you sign up for a SaaS subscription, companies often tempt you to sign up for the annual subscription instead of the monthly.  You save some money on the annual plan and say to yourself, “Well, I am locked into this contract for 12 months, but hey, what can go wrong.” Because of how slow things are now, you might ...

I am sure you are doing all you can to help “flatten the curve” to slow down the virus. Today we will discuss a different curve. Although talent acquisition may be slow right now, there are still plenty of ways for tech recruiters to be ahead of the recruiting curve.  Other recruiters will get complacent, you shouldn’t. Despite the freeze, ...

If you’re working remotely, you might as well make it a comfortable experience. Lots of companies are offering their usual paid services free for the coming months. Now is the time to capitalize and make working from home a breeze. We’ve picked out some to keep you optimized and stress free. Have a remote interview with an extremely hard to ...

Even though it seems bleak right now, it’s important to remember that nobody has plain given up yet. Companies and people are doing everything they can to make things work. That means tweaking current systems and implementing new ones that work even better during times like this. We were muddling through it at first, but as time goes on people ...

Last week, we discussed the impacts COVID-19 would have on the tech recruiting industry. Continuing from that, this week we will go further in-depth about the precautions recruiters can take to stay ahead of the competition, and the key role that automation will serve. With the world in its current frenzy, many are doing all they can to prepare by ...

To say we live in uncertain times is a gross understatement. Things are happening so fast that we don’t know what to expect in a week, let alone next quarter.  At some point, we will drift back to a quasi-normal state. But our society and way of life will be permanently affected. Despite the massive layoffs due to Coronavirus, many ...

GitHub has 40 million tech worker profiles. GitHub is free to join. So why are recruiters not on GitHub? For tech recruiting, sourcing from GitHub is like “eating your vegetables”: Something you know is good to do but you don’t do it. We recently conducted a webinar “How to Effectively Recruit on GitHub” with hundreds of attendees and thought you ...

Since most tech recruiters are not actually technical, how can they be expected to figure out if a potential candidate is proficient in the specific programming language they are searching for? The short and honest answer is that it’s not easy at all; especially if you’re like most recruiters today that don’t have the luxury of time needed to really ...

…And the purging continues. It seems every week LinkedIn is shutting down another service that offers emails or email related services. First it was Connectifier and now Sales Navigator (formerly known as Rapportive) is also scheduled to be taken down. We wrote about Connectifier last week. Connectifier was great to find anyone’s email by having their LinkedIn URLs. Sales Navigator ...