How to Keep Your IT and Tech Talent – Starting on Day One

The information technology industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the world, and it is really competitive. You need the right man for the right job in this department and hiring the best of the best is not the easiest or cheapest ordeal for a company. Another important factor is talent retention, which may be more valuable for the firm than it is initially thought to be. If you find quality technical people, you need to make an effort to keep them. That effort should start on their first day. When you talk about web developers, tech [...]

NEW: 2018 IT Salary Survey Released

Decide Consulting has just released it’s 2018 IT Salary survey. We publish data on over 70 IT and technical positions such as: Cloud Computing Analyst Full Stack Develop Project Manager / SCRUM Master NOSQL Developer Chief Security Officer Cloud Architect Data Scientist Information Systems Security Manager Front-End Web Developer We combined our own CIO CTO survey results with job board data and cross reference all that with data from the Department of Labor / US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Added together, this is a comprehensive collection of IT, consulting and technology salary data. How to Use this Guide For [...]

When You Find Out One Of Your IT Employees is Looking For A Job

It’s a devastating revelation to find out that one of your most valuable IT resources is looking for a new job. Even though It revolves around your professional life, it feels a little personal, but that’s the last way you want to deal with the situation. How you respond to the situation then approach your employee will have an impact on future recruitment and company performance so be wise. Schedule A Meeting It’s mandatory that a conversation about a topic as sensitive as resigning should be done in person. Despite the professional environment, there’s too much emotion involved to just [...]

Why Your Top It Talent Is Leaving

The “technological revolution” has changed our lives in ways we cannot enumerate. One of the ways in which the modernization of the workplace has affected the global labor market is the increased demand for IT professionals. Granted that the job market has become saturated with efficient candidates, it should be noted that the demand of “top IT talent” is perpetually growing. This largely accounts for the departure of top talent from your IT department to that of a rival company. Companies that depend of technical and IT people for their viability need to do everything they can to keep [...]

How to Retain your Top IT Talent

Although finding top-quality IT employees can be difficult feat on its own, retaining these tech nerds once they are in the fold may prove to be even more difficult. The unemployment rate in the IT industry is astonishingly low, especially in specialty disciplines like data and cloud computing, mobile app development, and digital and web designing. Losing team members can be challenging, but losing top-notch IT talent can cause some major setbacks. If you have good people in your IT department, you want to hold onto them. Other companies are proactively looking for them. It makes a lot of [...]