Do you want your next IT hire to be Brock Osweiler or Dak Prescott?

Hiring the best IT and technical talent has some analogies with professional football. Football fans in Texas are familiar with Brock Osweiler and Dak Prescott in the 2016 season. Neither was the best in the NFL. Neither was the worst. There is no question, Dak was better.Not just better for what he did on the field, but let’s do a quick Moneyball© metric on them.  Dak PrescottBrock Osweiler2016 QBR81.555.32016 Salary$ 545,848$ 12,000,000$ per QBR point$ 6,698$ 216,998Houston paid $217K for every QBR point while Dallas paid $6.7K. Big difference.If some measurement were available to predict their performance, do you think Houston [...]

By |January 27th, 2017|IT Recruiting, IT Staffing|0 Comments
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How to do a Better Technical Interview

I cannot even count how many technical interviews I’ve done. No less than 500. There were phases in my career where I continuously did 4-6 a week for weeks on end. At least half of those were done the wrong way. Luckily it was the first half. From this, I have learned how to do a better technical interview. I’ve noticed when a lot of people do technical interviews, they fall into the same trap I first fell into. They focus on whether the candidate knows the same technical trivia the interviewer knows. On a software team, most of [...]

By |January 11th, 2017|Better IT Hiring, Interview Tips, IT Recruiting, IT Staffing|0 Comments
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