If you’re looking at specialist platforms and services to support you in hiring tech candidates, you’re likely considering Dice. The next question is, why should you choose Dice over our competitors?
Hiring in today’s market is complicated. Selecting a hiring platform to help you do your job more effectively should be simple and straightforward. Let’s take a look at the following situations to find out if Dice is right for you.
1. Unique tech professionals on Dice are not actively searching for jobs on sites like LinkedIn, Indeed, Monster and CareerBuilder.
When you’re hiring for tech roles, whether you’re looking to fill core positions or more obscure and specialized talent, the candidates you’re looking for simply aren’t on generalist platforms (or aren’t active on them). Even when you can find them, the process takes too much of your precious time to weed through dozens of non-tech professionals, and there’s no guarantee that they are even active and ready to engage on that platform.
Generalist sites offer a wide array of candidates, but that also means they often provide a large volume of irrelevant applicants and candidates. You don’t just need candidates; you need the right ones, and that means finding them where they are.
Dice gives you the power to connect with tech professionals who aren’t searching for their next opportunity elsewhere. We understand tech professionals: what they’re looking for in a career and employer, what topics they’re interested in and which online communities they’re active in. Technology professionals know Dice as the source for the best tech jobs. It’s where they’ve found jobs before, and where they come to find their next tech job. That’s why 46% of active tech professionals on Dice are not actively searching for jobs on sites like LinkedIn, Indeed, Monster and CareerBuilder.1
of active tech professionals on Dice are not actively searching for jobs on sites like LinkedIn, Indeed, Monster and CareerBuilder.1
Best for Tech Hires
“Dice is my go-to for tech positions. The database is fresh and full of great candidates. I love Dice! It is a great database; so well coded and so well kept up! Great job, Dice Team!”
—Senior Technical Recruiter, Vector Talent Resources
“The best IT recruiting platform in the nation. Better than LinkedIn.”
—President, Susquehanna Information Systems
2. Access to millions of tech professionals
Quality is everything when it comes to finding and hiring the right tech talent. Hiring for tech is so specialized that, to get to the best candidates for all your open roles, you need access to a database that’s both wide and deep.
There are more than 6 million tech professionals registered on Dice2 — that’s a lot of tech talent. Engineers, developers, analysts, technicians and so many more types of tech specialists use Dice to find better tech jobs. And the companies they trust are the ones they know they can connect with through the platform.
Still want more? We’ve got you covered. Our Social Profiles aggregate data across the open web to create more profiles of tech candidates, bringing the total number of available talent even higher.
With these two sources — Dice’s Candidate Profiles and our Social Profiles — you have access to the total U.S. population of tech professionals. Even while giving recruiters a high quantity of tech professionals to source from, Dice also focuses on quality by ensuring you can take action on every profile we offer.
And that’s something you just can’t get anywhere else.
registered tech professionals2
Most Relevant Matches and Candidates
“Dice is the only job board that provides quality IT candidates across multiple skillsets almost every time I do a search.”
—Senior Technology Recruiter, Rezult Group
3. Connect with the highest-quality candidates
We will never stop going on about quality, because nothing is more important when hiring highly specialized candidates. As you know, to create the best shortlist of tech candidates, you need to have the right information on hand. With Dice, you get more complete candidate data, giving you the leg up you need to make faster and better matches for your open roles.
Starting with our profile system, all visible Candidate Profiles on Dice include a resume, at least five skills, work authorization and job type preference. Plus, many tech professionals on Dice are also including valuable data like their education, whether they have a security clearance and their desired salary range.
Because Dice collects this information and has a deep understanding of the most important factors in a tech job search, we can help recruiters further focus their efforts on the highest-potential candidates. For example, filters for candidates who are most likely to switch jobs or for those who have most recently been active on Dice are useful on their own; combined with the other candidate data available, they become even more critical in helping you get to top priority candidates.
Dice also offers a Match Score for both recruiters and candidates that shows how closely candidates’ skills and experience (as outlined on their Dice profile) match the requirements listed in a job posting, increasing the likelihood of you being able to add them to your shortlist. Sixty-four percent of applications on Dice are high-quality matches, meaning the candidate shows a Match Score of 4 or 5 (5 being the highest possible score).4
You won’t find a platform with higher-quality tech candidates than Dice. Even more importantly, there’s no one better at helping you slice, filter and — OK we’ll do it — dice to get to the right ones faster.
Pinpoint the right candidates for your roles with these powerful tools and filters:
Likely to Switch
Get an actionable signal of how likely a candidate is to change positions.
Compensation
Build a pipeline of candidates whose desired salary is within the range your organization offers.
Last Active on Dice and Resume Last Updated
Focus your outreach on professionals who are active now, whether that’s on Dice, or updating their resume.
Time Zones
Find remote candidates that can work within your time zone.
Companies
Looking to hire niche roles? Filter by the companies candidates either work at now, or have worked at in the past.
Unbiased Sourcing Mode
Build out more diverse, higher-performing teams by removing data that can cause bias early in the sourcing process.
Has Security Clearance
Need to hire cleared professionals? Find candidates who have security clearance early in the sourcing process.
4. Get automation that makes your life easier
You need a tool that allows you to get your jobs in front of the right candidates for your unique roles, and a search tool that elevates the most qualified candidates based on the skills and competencies that tech professionals possess.
Tech hiring is uniquely dependent on the skills, coding languages and software that recruiters need to search for and candidates need to have experience in. For recruiters, this is a challenge due to the scope and constant evolution of new tech skills and competencies. This hurdle is even more significant for less specialized recruiters.
Dice developed its patented tech taxonomy to help recruiters overcome this exact challenge. By analyzing more than 100,000 skill and title connections, we suggest qualified candidates who may be a good fit for your open roles.5 Take the example of a database developer job: Through our tech taxonomy, we can suggest candidates who already work in this position, but also those who possess the right skills, like SQL, ETL and C++.
The same goes with how we elevate open roles to tech professionals; we’ll analyze their titles and skills, and promote the jobs that have the best match. On Dice, it’s not automation for automation’s sake; every feature and tool has a purpose, and that’s making your life a little bit easier.
skills and title connections in Dice's patented technology5
Best Customer Service and Support
“What we love the most about Dice is they truly treat the partnership as two-sided and will always find a way for you to be successful, versus simply selling you the service and wishing you the best.”
—Director, Operations & Research, Burtch Works
5. End-to-end hiring solutions
It’s not an overstatement to say that recruiters and HR professionals are the backbone of the hiring process; without you, it just doesn’t happen. It’s also an extremely demanding job.
Whether you are responsible for recruiting and hiring all different types of roles or you’re solely focused on tech roles, you have a lot on your plate! The thought of adding yet another hiring platform to your stack may sound exhausting, but Dice is different.
The last thing we want to do is add another thing to your recruiting to-do list; our job is to take things off your plate, and to save you from hassles and headaches. We built the platform with the goal of making it what it is today: a truly end-to-end tech hiring solution.
Need to post jobs, source candidates, promote your employer brand, and host or attend career events? You can do all of those things through separate platforms, but that’s at least five platforms. On Dice, you can do them all in one place, with a singular and unwavering focus on tech. Plus, if you need extra help sourcing, our designated team of recruiters can help with that too.
What makes us truly different will always be that Dice offers the expertise you need to navigate the nuances of tech roles including deep knowledge of tech skills, search tools that make it easier for you to find the right candidates, and a highly engaged and unique audience that can’t be found anywhere else. Tools and features are vitally important, but without that expertise and focus, they won’t get used to their full potential.
When you use Dice, you don’t have to learn the tech hiring market inside and out, and you don’t have to do all of the work yourself. Instead, let us help you by taking on what you want to get rid of, so you can get back to doing what only you can do: being the best recruiter out there.
Dice helps you:
- Post jobs
- Source candidates
- Promote your employer brand
- Host and attend career events
- Outsource sourcing
6. You hire for all of your company's roles, not just tech and don't have time to be an expert in tech recruiting
It’s not an overstatement to say that recruiters and HR professionals are the backbone of the hiring process; without you, it just doesn’t happen. It’s also an extremely demanding job, and not for the faint of heart.
As the person responsible for recruiting and hiring all of the different types of roles for your organization, we salute you! We also know that it’s a lot of work. In the midst of your incredibly busy days, even the thought of yet another hiring platform is exhausting.
Dice is different. The last thing we want to do is add another thing to your recruiting plate; our job is to take things off your plate. Recruiting tech talent is different from hiring for other roles, with nuances that can require research, deep knowledge and advanced search and filtering capabilities. With Dice, you don’t have to know the tech hiring market inside and out.
Our tools allow you to source tech professionals without an in-depth understanding of their skills and occupations. With IntelliSearch, you can simply paste in a job description, and our patented tech taxonomy will go to work by analyzing the skills, occupations and competencies listed, and then pull up candidates who match those requirements. You can also paste a resume from one of your current or ideal tech employees, and IntelliSearch will list candidates who are a similar match. The best part? You can also add additional filters, requirements or Boolean strings on top of your IntelliSearch queries. Tech is constantly changing, and it can be hard to keep up with, so we make it our mission to ensure you’re always able to find the right candidates.
Our tools allow you to source tech professionals without an in-depth understanding of their skills and occupations.
What's in It for You?
Now you know that if you need access to tech professionals you can’t find anywhere else, relevant and quality tech candidate applications and matching capabilities, a truly dynamic tech talent database, and the expertise to help you understand and win in the tech market, you need Dice.
So what does that get you? With these tools in your toolkit, you’ll see the highest-quality applies from the tech candidates you want, faster times-to-hire and better retention rates. And that means a return well above and beyond your investment in the platform.
