Sourcing Candidates

If you’re not familiar with GitHub, you should be. With more than 10 million users, it’s a community of active developers and software engineers who present their skills for all to see by posting code,...

It takes a lot of time and effort to craft the perfect recruiting message, especially since top candidates are regularly bombarded with emails and social-networking notes from recruiters. Everybody knows that research into a candidate...

In the new eBook I produced with Dice, The Definitive Guide to Engaging Top Tech Candidates, I discuss how to personalize your email or message to what you’ve learned about the candidate. Keep it...

Most recruiters send one email, or leave one message, and then move on; they assume there’s no interest if the prospect doesn’t reply back right away. Don’t be most recruiters. In the new eBook I...

Personalized messaging, sent to the right target, by a credible recruiter or tech pro, leads to high response rates. What’s the secret sauce? As described in the new eBook I produced for Dice, The Definitive...

Top tech talent doesn’t respond to typical, generic “seeking rock star programmer” spammy emails. Personalized messaging is key to hitting your response rate goal and generating a slate of top candidates. However, with so much...

The research is unequivocal: According to Jobvite, 95 percent of recruiters use or plan to use social media to find candidates. But only 18 percent describe themselves as social media experts. To help you feel...

Top tech talent doesn’t respond to generic “seeking rock star programmer” spammy emails. Personalized messaging is key to hitting your response-rate goal and generating a slate of top candidates. But with so much information available...

Employment data from the first quarter of 2015 suggests that the technology industry’s hiring momentum continued virtually unchecked into the new year, with the unemployment rate averaging 2.3 percent—the lowest rate recorded since the second...

Recruiting is a fast-paced and rapidly evolving space, and I frequently receive questions about everything from Boolean searches to social sourcing and nurturing passive talent. I decided to take some of those most-asked questions and...