Articles associated with topic: interviewing

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  The Challenge of Hiring Business Analysts

  As corporate missions become more complex, there’s a rising need for business analysts (sometimes abbreviated as “BAs”) who can provide strategic planning. These analysts also play a vital role in figuring out…
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  4 Keys to Successfully Interviewing for Culture

  Tech companies love to use culture as a recruiting tool, to varying degrees of success. What many interviewers—whether they’re recruiters or hiring managers—don’t consider is that once a culture is established,…
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  Is It Time to Give Up the Whiteboard Interview?

  Ask a random selection of tech pros about their job-interviewing experiences, and chances are pretty good you won’t hear a lot of love for whiteboard interviews. As every recruiter and employer knows, many tech…
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  Using Bad News to Create a Recruiter-Candidate Bond

  Sometimes good candidates don’t land the jobs they’re qualified for. As a recruiter, you know it happens for all kinds of reasons, from mismatched cultural expectations to hiring managers who feel threatened by…
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  Is Paying Candidates to Apply a Good Idea?

  When it comes to soliciting tech candidates for a new position, hiring managers across the country generally follow a well-worn routine. Step one: publish a job posting. Step two: review all résumés and cover l…
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  8 Elements to Building Trust with Candidates

  It’s not easy recruiting skilled tech pros today. With the job market weighted in their favor, most of them are itching to give you an earful about the flood of calls, emails and texts they get from recruiters…
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  Losing Tech Candidates at the Offer Stage

  You spend days combing through Websites and résumés to find the perfect candidate. Then you painstakingly guide them through the interviewing process. But just when the finish line is in sight, they suddenly bo…
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  Taking the Candidate-Centric Approach to Hiring

  For companies looking to find top tech talent, a Microsoft recruiter offers this advice: it’s not about you. “We try to keep the candidate at the center of everything we do,” said Amy Miller, a 10-year recruiti…
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  Accelerating Your Company’s Hiring Process

  A protracted hiring process may not only cause you to lose talented tech professionals, it can damage your employment brand. Surveys show that candidates are put off by a lengthy hiring process that stretches o…
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  Hiring Humor: Always Be Professional

  It's the golden rule of the workplace: Be Professional. You’d think that would be a given, whether you're the CEO or simply a job applicant. Unfortunately, it doesn't always work that way. Sometimes you can't h…