Hiring Candidates

After two years of continuous improvement in recruitment activity on Dice, tech is a market-by-market story. There are certainly many technology jobs posted in traditional centers like Silicon Valley, New York or Seattle. But other cities...

IT Hiring Market Report - February 2012 The Dice IT Hiring Market Report is a roundup of news related to technology hiring, compiled from various sources by the Dice Editorial Staff. App Development Creates...

Your job is hard. Recruiting top technology talent can be tough. Your success depends on your ability to find top developers and engineers, in an extremely competitive talent market. Our friends at Recruiting Toolbox, Inc. get...

You can conduct interviews, assessments and run a background investigation, but reference checks are the only way to confirm your conclusions and get the real scoop on prospective employees. Former managers and peers have first hand...

Applicants with a glass-half-full attitude are great. Unless, of course, they're half-full of futile hopes for a higher salary. Ever get the feeling that an applicant saw the salary in a job posting, thought to...

Wouldn’t it be great if every new hire had a positive attitude? Studies show that positive thinkers are more productive and resilient, in fact, the positive brain is 31 percent more productive than when the...

The competition for IT talent gets tougher every day, so hiring managers have to be in top form to land the best candidates. Walking into an interview unprepared, late, or unsure what position you’re hiring...

Fifty-four percent of large businesses that laid off employees in the past year are now having difficulty finding skilled workers. So to bridge the gap, many employers are considering rehiring former employees. Past employees who return...

Facebook uses its own social network to recruit simply by telling its own stories in unique and authentic ways, explains Matt Millunchick, Technical Project Manager for Facebook. One of the most notable ways Facebook recruits...

Companies are directing more of their time and recruiting budgets toward social media, but are those investments paying off?  Only 1 percent of open positions were filled by candidates sourced through social media, according to a...