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  • How to judge a job candidate's personality (and why you should)

    As an increasing number of companies are focusing on personality traits and potential cultural fit when hiring. These new interviewing tactics are designed to help recruiters and hiring managers uncover who candidates are -- rather than just what they can do.

    Written by Sharon Florentine23 July 14 14:21
  • Microsoft Layoffs Mean 'Open Season' for Recruiters

    The news that Microsoft will lay off approximately 18,000 workers -- most from the Nokia mobile phone business acquired by Microsoft earlier this year -- will unleash a flood of new talent into the IT hiring market, and could mean "open season" for recruiters, says Jason Berkowitz, vice president of client services for Seven Step RPO

    Written by Sharon Florentine19 July 14 03:52
  • 3 Ways to Spot a Bad Boss Before You Take the Job

    Everyone suffers under a bad manager - morale sinks, productivity tanks, absences increase. Even those above a bad manager in the corporate hierarchy feel the impact; executives must dedicate time to resolving conflicts, and often end up assuming the role and responsibility for those who aren't adequately doing their job, says says Patty Azzarello, CEO of Azzarello Group, and a business advisor, author and executive.

    Written by Sharon Florentine16 July 14 01:10
  • Intensive Interview Process Ensures You Hire Top Tech Talent

    While many organizations struggle to retain top talent in a tight employment market, some firms are using intensive, rigorous hiring and training practices to ensure both that their hires are the right fit and that the employee stays for the long term.

    Written by Sharon Florentine11 July 14 04:21
  • CIOs Talk Hiring and How to Win the 'War for Talent'

    Technology executives met in San Francisco this week at a CIO Perspectives event to talk recruiting and to share strategies for hiring and managing top-notch tech talent.

    Written by Tom Kaneshige22 May 14 23:18
  • Workforce-as-a-Service Scales to Meet IT Staffing Needs on Demand

    What if you could scale your IT personnel requirements as you would computing resources? Using a workforce-as-a-service model lets you add a skilled, vetted and insured workforce when you need it and release it when you don't.

    Written by Sharon Florentine30 Sept. 13 13:18
  • CIOs say mentoring works, classes don’t

    A survey of 200 CIOs finds that most well-meaning efforts at IT leadership development aren’t very successful.

    Written by Brendan Mcgowan03 Sept. 13 06:33
  • Staff retention a concern for CFOs: survey

    Some 85 per cent of 300 Australian CFOs and finance directors surveyed are concerned about losing valuable staff in the next year, with 36 per cent expecting new finance and accounting employees to leave a company within the first three years.

    Written by Rebecca Merrett21 Aug. 12 09:46
  • How to break through unsustainable IT staffing models

    Critical IT staffing shortages will put many businesses at risk in the next few years if immediate steps are not taken to change current workforce planning models.

    Written by Sandra Van Dijk21 Nov. 11 08:47
  • Pay Isn't Everything

    Here we go again. The stock market's wild ride this week may rattle business confidence, and put the brakes on most future hiring decisions. This uncertainty may also bring pay raises into question.

    Written by Dallon Christensen16 Aug. 11 18:52
  • No CSO? Hire one now, advises security expert

    Enterprises without a chief security officer or a beefed up security department will be left wide open as hackers use new exploits to strike, warns a security industry expert.

    Written by Hamish Barwick22 June 11 12:12
  • Public sector restructures fuel CIO movements: Recruiter

    Public sector restructures have fuelled movements at the CIO, CTO and general management level of IT, according to the latest The Quarterly report from recruiting group, Hays.

    Written by Georgina Swan05 April 11 15:39
  • Survey: More to IT than building and running systems

    Emerging IT roles for application developers, IT-business hybrids, cloud vendor managers and data masters signal a profound shift in the IT unit's value proposition. (For more about emerging roles in IT, see " Four Kinds of IT Professionals CIOs Need to Hire Now.")

    Written by Jeanne Ross and Cynthia Beath25 Feb. 11 06:10
  • Telstra uses Salesforce for crowd sourcing

    The use of the Salesforce Ideas internal forum has created more than 300 company initiatives for Telstra since it began using the application in March 2010.

    Written by Hamish Barwick11 Nov. 10 11:26
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