These 5 IT Hires Can Cost You an Extra Million

We all know the cost of a bad hire can be high. When you have been on enough software development teams, you have seen the good and the bad. When you start seeing, and recognizing, the good that can turn bad – that is when you know you are experienced. There are 5 types of IT individuals we have seen show up in different organizations. They can appear to be knowledgeable and productive, but they are a wolf in sheep’s clothing.  Having one of these can cost your organization huge dollars. When one adds up the person’s time, the [...]

By |March 28th, 2017|Better IT Hiring, IT Recruiting, IT Staffing|0 Comments
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Why your IT job description is wrong. One question to fix it.

Odds are your job description for your IT position is not as good as is can be. Don’t worry too much, you are not alone. Most job descriptions are listings of skills needed, some background experience and desired education. Granted these are all relevant things. You do not want to hire a C# programmer for a Java position. The critical missing thing in most job descriptions is the answer to one question: What is the background of your best people? We had a recent client who writes security software. They were looking to expand their software implementation staff. These people [...]

By |March 26th, 2017|Better IT Hiring, IT Recruiting, IT Staffing|0 Comments
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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 Keep and Attract the Top Tech Talent

There is a growing demand for people with IT and technical skills. Companies need to plan ways to keep and attract the best technical talent. One doesn’t have to be the most informed person in the world to realize the following: Demand for Tech talent will continue to rise The cost of Tech talent will rise accordingly There are numerous studies of CIOs citing their concerns over attracting and retaining tech talent Jobs for software developers alone could increase up to 17% over the next 10 years Big Data and Security talent are expected to grow as fast, if not [...]

By |January 14th, 2017|IT Recruiting, IT Staffing, Retain Your Talent, Tech Skills Gap|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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