Recruiting & Talent – Page 2

Winning the Tech Talent War

November 16, 2017

Last night, I attended TalentMinded’s Next Generation Talent Acquisition meet-up on “How to Hire and Retain Tech Talent”. The panel included Jack Noppé, Chief Product Officer of Intelex Technologies Inc., Lauris Apse, Senior Director of Digital Operations at CBC, Malgosia Green, Chief Product Officer, TopHat and Gianluca Cairo, Chief of Staff, Innovation, Science and Economic Development, Government of Canada. The panel discussion ...

The Problem with Youth Unemployment: a Call to Action

September 21, 2017

I regularly listen to CBC Radio and often hear stories documenting the challenges that educated and talented young people are facing finding employment in their field. These stories often stereotype young people with one or two degrees who can only find employment as a barista or waiter/waitress in a restaurant. Unfortunately, I do not think ...

What is the real cost of recruiting?

May 18, 2017

I work with early stage software companies ranging from those with only a few dozen employees to those with a few hundred. Each will say that they are part of the talent war and are struggling to find qualified employees to fuel their growth. Yet, most companies have not quantified the cost of recruiting, the ...

LinkedIn Behaviour & What it says about You

February 13, 2017

Frequently, I get invited to connect to people on LinkedIn whom I don’t know. Generally, I have a rule that I never accept an invitation to connect from anyone that I have not either met or spoken with on the telephone. I do this to keep my connections to people that are in my industry ...

Do Job Titles Matter?

August 1, 2016

After 37 years in the tech industry, I have become cynical of job titles and companies who have an abundance of lofty job titles and minimal revenue. I often meet early stage software companies with a few dozen employees, yet their executive ranks are filled with a CEO, COO, EVP of Sales, CMO and CTO. ...

Why I think I am a 61-year-old Millennial

May 2, 2016

While driving this morning, I listened to a radio interview focused on the news headline that Millennials now outnumber Boomers and the impact that is having and will have on the workplace. The speaker was espousing that like their Boomer parents, Millennials have the same goals of getting married, having a family and owning a ...

Is your recruiting failing because of you?

March 14, 2016

Many technology companies fail to meet their growth potential because they struggle to hire in a timely manner. As a management consultant specializing in professional services and software industries, it is common to be asked by my clients to help with their recruiting strategy. As a result, I think I have developed some unique perspectives ...

If your recruiting is failing, what can you do about it?

February 23, 2016

A collaborative blog post with Kim Benedict. In our last blog, we asked: ‘How do you know your recruiting is failing?‘ In that post, we provided six metrics for a CEO to test whether their recruiting process was performing adequately. Recruitment is hard and it’s only going to get harder. Albert Einstein said the definition ...

How do you know if your recruiting strategy is about to fail?

February 1, 2016

A collaborative blog post with Kim Benedict. Before the holidays, we were talking to a manager who was bemoaning their workload. On top of everything else, they were conducting candidate screening interviews because they had four open positions and their internal HR team was too busy to get the screening interviews done. Kudos to the ...

Would you run your Sales process like you run recruiting?

September 10, 2015

A collaborative blog post by Kim Benedict and Pete Smith “We are in a talent war”. Maybe you’ve heard this statement recently. We certainly are hearing it frequently from CEO’s and other senior executives of software companies. Yet, in this war, so many of the wounds seem to be self-inflicted or from friendly fire. To ...

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