A recent World Economic Forum study explains how HR professionals are addressing the technical staffing skills gap. Here’s a shout out to Gary Beach of the WSJ, who rightly calls them out the lack of innovation, imagination, insight or anything other...
Everybody knows that employees cost way less than consultants… But do they? How would that change hiring technical talent if what everybody knows wasn’t true? Hiring an Employee: True Real Dollar Costs Most technical managers have never been...
In our last post, we wrote about getting your criteria right for strategic technical hiring, and provide guidelines for determining the right category of resource. Still, even after learning those lessons, getting employees in the door when they have so many lucrative...
Startup managers try to hire only the perfect candidate, and for good reason: Almost every company’s strategic value today comes down to its ability to find and retain the right talent. The cost of a bad hire is significant from the time spent recruiting, lost...
