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    The Key to Hiring Top Software Engineers Isn’t More Money

    With demand for technical workers soaring, and an expected job growth rate of 17% by 2024, hiring software engineers is no easy task. To attract top tech talent in a competitive marketplace, it’s important to understand what the best talent is looking for and how to architect a strategy tailored to win them over. To shed light […] More

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    Elevate Your Employer Brand: What Top Brands Are Doing to Attract Tech Talent

    People love your product, your company is hitting all the right press mentions, and when you tell people where you work, they affect a knowing, excited tone, voicing their recognition with a high pitched “Oh, I’ve heard of them!” When it comes to your brand, it’s just green light after green light, right? Not so […] More

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    Ready to Shuffle Up Your Tired Interview Process?

    When the top brass comes in to your HQ for a board meeting, who’s invited? More specifically, who from the talent organization is invited? Hopefully, someone on your team gets that coveted seat at the table, and hopefully it’s someone who intimately understands the recruiting process. At Caffeine, it’s Head of Talent Alex Lebovic, who […] More

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    Time to Eliminate Salary Negotiation

    Tech Recruiters are hard to find, salary negotiation is just part of the process, and hiring managers should be as involved as possible, right? Wrong. Just ask Bailey Douglass, Director of People & Talent at Mode. Bailey’s put together a rock solid process, and she has some en fuego takes about how talent folks can […] More

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    Re-Visit Your Hiring Process by Calculating Confidence Indices

    The results of every phone screen, interview, and offer provide an opportunity for recruiters to re-visit their hiring process, making slight tweaks to job descriptions, interview panels, and assessment techniques. But the insight you can apply back to your recruiting cycle doesn’t end with a warm butt in a cold seat. Once some time has […] More

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    Improve Close Rates By Offering Your Candidates a “Reverse Interview”

    Experienced recruiters love to say in any interview, the candidate is also assessing you. That you need to balance technical assessment alongside selling the opportunity, making sure the candidate comes to understand why your company is such a great place to work. But in reality, how much interview time are you allotting for the candidate […] More