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I Hire Engineers At Google – Here’s What I Look For (And Why)
BY KEAWE BLOCK 08.13.16 | 5:00 AM The hiring experience for engineers isn’t what it used to be–and that’s partly by design. Here at Google, we’ve intentionally broadened the number of schools where we actively recruit, from 75 a few years ago to 305 today. We’re as interested in English or philosophy majors as we are in […]
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How much time do recruiters spend NOT filling jobs?
Despite running a successful recruitment agency for over a decade, it never ceased to amaze me the amount of time recruiters wasted on non-essential activities (which I classify as registering jobs and filling them). As recruitment becomes more competitive, keeping your consultants laser-focused on the activities that lead them to a placement is the holy […]
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How to Write Job Ads that Don’t Suck
“Job descriptions suck!” We’ve heard it a million times. With an abundance of job openings for the exceptional 90th percentile, every ad for tech talent looks and sounds the same: a list of demands sandwiched between flowery sentences describing creative work environments, snazzy perks, and products that will disrupt billion dollar markets. Since I started […]
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Yellow Pages Limited Announces the Acquisition of JUICE Mobile
MONTREAL, March 15, 2016 /CNW Telbec/ – Yellow Pages Limited (TSX: Y) (“Yellow Pages” or the “Company”) announced today that it will acquire JUICE Mobile (“JUICE”), a premium advertising technology company whose proprietary programmatic platforms facilitate the automatic buying and selling of mobile advertising between brands and publishers. The acquisition will close and take effect on […]
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Tech Jobs Will Boom In Canada, But Country Lacks People To Fill Them: Study
Canada’s economy will create at least 218,000 tech jobs between now and 2020, but lacks the people to fill them, says a new report from a not-for-profit think tank. The report from the Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC) calls for reforms to Canada’s education and economic policies, including starting computer science education in kindergarten […]
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6 Ways to Show Off Your Company Culture to Applicants
Gone are the days when companies looking to hire held all the cards. In today’s hiring market, great talent is more in demand than ever before, and companies need to do all they can to attract the top individuals. This is true even more true in supply chain management and its related disciplines (areas in which we at […]
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TED Talk
Given the choice between a job candidate with a perfect resume and one who has fought through difficulty, human resources executive Regina Hartley always gives the “Scrapper” a chance. As someone who grew up with adversity, Hartley knows that those who flourish in the darkest of spaces are empowered with the grit to persist in […]
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Why Women (And Men) Should Learn To Code
Did you know that the person who first proposed programming for an analytical machine, known today as computer programming, was a woman? Her name was Ada Byron Lovelace. In 1843, she articulated the concept that would lead to modern computer programming, and which would only be fully realized a century after her death. Last month marked […]
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Why Bother With Recruiters?
Recruitment for most is a necessary evil. Typically you can’t find what you’re looking for. Hiring a new resource is time consuming and there is no guarantee that things will work out. Building a business case to justify a recruitment effort is difficult. Risk management such as references and psychometric assessments can be subjective. Dealing […]
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