IT Recruiting

6 Questions to Ask a Potential Cyber Security Hire

The increasing prevalence of cyber security attacks has made businesses within every industry question their own security measures. How secure is your network? What new trends—like artificial intelligence or the IoT—could pose a threat to your organization, and how should you safeguard it? In order to maintain a secure infrastructure and keep business running as usual, it’s essential that you hire the right cyber security talent for your company. But making a new hire for these highly sensitive jobs requires more than just finding someone who “feels like a good fit.” There are specific questions you should ask to [...]

Tips to Help You Attract and Retain Tech Talent

Right now, companies are still undergoing a digital transformation. Technologies like security, AI, data science, and the IoT are still evolving rapidly. This means that businesses will invest billions of dollars to attract and retain the talent who can use new and quickly changing technology to help support business goals. Since all companies have to compete for this talent, businesses must find ways to attract and retain digital professionals or risk falling behind. Businesses that can secure and keep their talent better than their competitors will enjoy better support from new technology and lower hiring costs. Ways to Keep [...]

It is a Very Good Time to Be a Software Developer [INFOGRAPHIC]

Title: It is a Very Good Time to be a Software Developer Takeaways: There are approximately 1.7M software developers, by a strict definition in the US For every software developer, there is another job as a DBA, analyst or support personnel For every software developer, there are even more jobs as QA, Salespeople selling the software, graphics designers, project managers and so on. There are nearly 250,000 open software development jobs 90% of software development jobs are outside Silicon Valley The average salary of these software development jobs is $104K 1% of the US population is employed as a [...]

5 Jobs That Will Be Created by Automation

Are you worried that a robot or AI system will replace you at work? If so, you should probably relax and even look forward to an exciting future. Automation may have replaced 800,000 jobs, according to one study. At the same time, automation generated about 3.5 million different jobs, and mostly, these jobs pay considerably more than the ones that were lost. Five Jobs Automation Created Take a look at some new opportunities that automation created or is likely to create soon: Service Jobs Automation helps create service jobs in a number of ways. For instance, Paneera Bread has enjoyed [...]

These 5 IT Hires Can Cost You an Extra Million [INFOGRAPHIC]

TITLE: These 5 IT Hires Can Cost You an Extra Million Sub Title: The Cost of a bad hire can be high. Hiring the wrong developer can cost you more than just their salary. Bad hires can cause a company to spend unnecessarily on many fronts. Takeaways The Rewriter - They never saw a piece of code they liked except what they wrote themselves. Every time they look at a piece of code, they state “we need to rewrite this” Why is it a problem - Not everything needs to be rewritten, especially if it is working. The Resume [...]