
Successfully hiring in tech takes a special recruiter. One part of your brain has to be steeped in sourcing, employer branding, candidate experience best practices. The other part of your brain has to understand technology...
- May 8th, 2014
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See how Steve White -- Pier 1's Talent Acquisition Manager -- looks to Open Web to uncover three really unique, hard-to-find candidates in 45% less time. Want the full scoop? Read it here. For more...
- March 31st, 2014
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If I’ve learned one thing over the years working as a developer myself and then managing a technology team of my own, it’s that technology professionals expect a combination of incentives to stay motivated. I...
- February 12th, 2014
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“No. We’ve seen this candidate before. We need to see someone new.” These were the frustrating retorts that recruiter Michael Nelms heard a bit too often from his clients. Rarely did he receive responses like...
- November 20th, 2013
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Your social recruiting efforts just got faster. And easier. Introducing Dice’s new Open Web Chrome Extension. Now you can access a candidate’s entire social footprint, wherever you go on the web. Researching a candidate on GitHub...
- October 3rd, 2013
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Return to Technical Hiring Guide What Is a Software Engineer? This is the most common job title, and it can mean all sorts of things. Generally, these include: writing code, fixing bugs, writing tests for code, and...
- September 20th, 2013
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Return to Technical Hiring Guide What Is a Data Scientist? Data Scientist is not a new role; however, with computing resources becoming more affordable and technology advancing more rapidly, more and more organizations are employing people in these...
- September 20th, 2013
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Return to Technical Hiring Guide What Is a Software Engineer in Test? These roles are similar to QA engineers in that they tend to have a lot of the same responsibilities around test cases, planning, and quality...
- September 20th, 2013
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Return to Technical Hiring Guide What Is a Technical Lead? The many different flavors of this role can be called Development Lead, Technical Lead, Lead Software Engineer, Software Engineer Lead, Software Manager, or ...
- September 20th, 2013
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Return to Technical Hiring Guide QA engineers are almost always on the software-building side of the organization, and are responsible for making sure that software meets the quality bar. Their responsibilities include testing software by using...
- September 20th, 2013
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