Articles by Leslie Stevens-Huffman
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What To Say When You're Asked For Personal Information
Can a recruiter ask for your social security number and date of birth before they give you an offer? This question often arises in Dice Discussions. The short answer is yes, but you still need to… -
Four Tactics to Lure Engineers
Even if you’re inundated with resumes from IT professionals, you’re probably struggling to fill engineering jobs. More than 32,000 engineering positions are posted on Dice, and nearly two-thirds… -
Show Your Positive Side in Job Interviews
There’s a saying in the business world: Hire for attitude, train for skills. In other words, if you have a positive outlook and seem a good match for the environment, you’ll probably be hired --… -
Making the Most of Your Non-Technical Experience
Recent grads often assume that employers don’t care about their non-technical work experience. So as some recently noted on Dice Discussions, they omit miscellaneous part-time and summer jobs fro… -
How to Overcome Hiring Bias
Managers and recruiters make quick decisions when scanning candidate resumes. So unless you go out of your way to anticipate their concerns and launch a preemptive strike, you may be passed over… -
How to Avoid Self-Destructing During Interviews
Companies ARE hiring IT professionals, but they’re being incredibly cautious and selective, to the point where a single interview mistake could keep you from getting an offer. What are these mist… -
You Must, MUST, Customize Your Approach if You Want to Get the Job
For one moment, imagine you're a recruiter. Your responsibility is to take a job requisition and its list of desired skills, experience and personality traits, review hundreds of resumes, and con… -
Look Behind the Curtain: Demystifying HR's Recruiting Process
From the time an IT manager identifies a hiring need until a new employee moves into their cubicle, an arduous process takes place in corporate HR departments. Although each company puts its own…