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How to Hire Geeks, Brand Your Shop, and Beat the “Talent Shortage”
As a recruiter of software engineers, I hear every day how difficult it is for software companies to find technical talent. If hiring engineers was easy, I wouldn’t be in business. ...
How many Java developers are there in the world?
Oracle says it’s 9,000,000. Wikipedia claims it’s 10,000,000. And the guys from NumberOf.net seem to be the most precise – they know that there are exactly 9,007,346 Java developers ...
Interview Prep For Geeks
Failing an interview due to a lack of qualifications is forgivable, but it is tragic when highly qualified candidates do not get an offer due to being unprepared. With the amount of ...
Top 7 tips for succeeding in a technical interview for software engineers
In this post I would like to write on how to succeed in a technical interview based on my experience as an interviewer. Most of the interviews follows some patterns. If you understand ...
5 ways how a recruiter can **** me off
I get called from recruiters on a regular basis. It just happened right now which motivated me to collect my thoughts on IT recruiting – something on my to-do list for a while. To ...
Disrupt Tech Recruiting II – So You Want Ari Gold?
After publishing How to Disrupt Technical Recruiting – Hire an Agent and reading the subsequent feedback from readers at Hacker News and elsewhere, it is clear that at least some ...
How To Disrupt Technical Recruiting – Hire an Agent
A recent anti-recruiter rant posted to a news group and a subsequent commentary on HackerNews got me thinking about the many ways that tech recruiting and the relationship between recruiters ...
TALK! It’s An Interview, Not An Interrogation
Several times a year I will get a call or email from a hiring manager telling me that an interview never really ‘went anywhere’ because the candidate seemed either unwilling or ...
Does It Get Boring To Be A Programmer?
Programmers are people who create computer programs. (I’ll skip the discussion whether it should be “programmer”, “developer”, “engineer”, “coder” or whatever. You ...
Computer Science Education in High Demand
The growing need for qualified computer programmers and the availability of free, online education programs is what inspired today’s post by Olivia Leonardi. She is looking to add ...
