4 Ways to Attract Recruit Tech Developers

4 Ways to Attract Recruit Tech Developers The  first step to hiring technical talent is understanding what’s important to them in a new job, and the  Stack Overflow 2018 Global Developer Hiring Landscape Report  provides a comprehensive look at what developers want and how they work in order to help companies attract the best talent.  The report’s data comes from the 2018 Stack Overflow Global Developer Survey, an extensive survey of the programmer workforce, with over 100,000 responses from coders in 183 countries. From this, weve found that hiring developers is becoming increasingly important in todays business landscape,  but theres no denying its a difficult process. The demand for top tech talent is high and developers are notoriously passive when it comes to actually looking for new job opportunities. But here are 4 ways you might just get that developer youve always wanted. 1. Show them the money What do developers look at when considering new jobs? It differs. Compensation was top of the list for men, but globally, women, gender non-binary and transgender developers rated the office environment and company culture as more important to them than salary when considering a new job. This is especially worth noting for companies looking to boost their demographic diversity. What do they want to know about in terms of prospective jobs? Top of the list is salary and compensation, followed by details of which technologies they’d be working with, and opportunities for professional development coming in third. 2. Plan ahead Over 94% of professional developers in the UK are employed at least part-time, making the developer employment rate much higher than those of other professions. Only 11% of developers in the UK are actively looking for a job, with 56% not actively looking, putting additional pressure on employers competing to hire tech talent. But it’s not all bad news for recruiters. UK developers change jobs quite frequently with 33% of them having changed their jobs less than one year ago, while 21% changed jobs between 1 and 2 years ago. What weve also found, is that its important to plan hires ahead as a third of developers think it takes new recruits at least one month to become fully productive, 45% think 1-3 months and 17% 3-6 months. 3. Give them a clear growth path Coding is a young person  profession with 30% of developers have only been working professionally for under two years, and 27% working between 3 to 5 years. What weve found is that they are hungry for change and progression as 34% of them see themselves working in a different or more specialized role in five years’ time. While actually, 26% want to start up their own company in the future. 4. Embrace AI Developers are mostly optimistic about the future possibilities offered by AI with almost 3/4 of respondents saying that they are more excited than worried about it. Automation of jobs is the least significant danger of artificial intelligence according to developers, with over 80% saying that is not their biggest worry. The concerns that developers have depended on the kind of coding work they do. Data scientists are 1.5 times more likely to consider issues around algorithmic fairness dangerous. Developers are just like every other specialist role, and finding ways to recruit and attract them will require the same basic principles as recruiting any other type of role. But Developers are a wanted commodity and a scarce resource, so recruiting them will be no easy task. About the author:  Sean Bave  is the General Manager Vice President of  Stack Overflow Talent, helping employers engage with the worlds developers and developers find the right job.  

The Best Subject Line for Job Applications

The Best Subject Line for Job Applications Best Subject Lines for Job Applications: 3 Examples Applying for Jobs / https://www.edenscott.com/blog The best subject lines for job applications are direct and professional. In your subject line, you should indicate what job youve applied for, while keeping it as simple as possible. Long or overly-complicated email subject lines arent necessary on applications; the only goal of your email subject line is to get the reader to open your email and resume.However, you dont want to be too generic! Subject lines like Resume submission or Sales job resume are likely to get mixed in with all of the other applicants and either delayed or forgotten.So we need to find an email subject line that is a bit unique but not overly-long or complicated. Thats the best way to write a job application subject line.Lets look at steps and examples to do this nowThe 3 Best Subject Lines for Job ApplicationsAll of the following are great subject lines when submitting a resume and applying online.First, if you know the name of the person youre going to submit your resume to, yo u can use it in the subject line:Hi Beth- Ive attached my Resume for the Sales Associate jobThis email subject will stand out in the readers inbox and get opened quickly, which is the goal.Dont worry if you dont know the persons name that will be reading your application.Here are two more examples of good subject lines when submitting a resume:Resume attached (HR Coordinator position)Application for HR Coordinator positionTwo Job Application Email Subject Mistakes to Avoid:Dont Capitalize Each Word in Your Job Application Subject LineThis is a mistake I see in email subject lines in general. Dont capitalize every word. It looks spammy.Capitalize the first word and then leave the rest lower-case (unless theyre pronouns that need to be capitalized, like a company name).Make Sure the Employer Doesnt Ask for a Specific Subject LineBefore sending, review the companys website (on the page where you found the job posting or HR info) and check if theyve instructed you on what subject line t o use.Companies care a lot about your ability to follow directions and be detail-oriented when applying, so they ask you to use one specific subject line, make sure you use it.Its not too common, but some companies will say something like, Please use subject line XYZ for job applicationsThats one more thing you need to look out for when choosing a subject for your job applications. If you follow the tips above, youll have a great email subject that gets your job applications opened and read, so you can get more interviews.

Three things I wish Id known before I graduated University of Manchester Careers Blog

Three things I wish Id known before I graduated University of Manchester Careers Blog A lot of interesting things happened in May 2016. Leicester City won the Premier League at 5000-1 odds, Sadiq Khan became the first ever Muslim mayor of a major Western city, and I turned 21 years old. It was a pretty good month, if you ask me. May 2016 was also the month that I’d never felt more stressed. The end of my degree was right around the corner, and I had absolutely no idea what life post-university had in store. It wasn’t that I didn’t know what I wanted to do; in fact, I had a lot of ideas â€" probably too many to decide from! So, as lots of final year students find themselves doing, I started scouring jobs board online and firing off applications to any job that looked interesting and that I might be good at, without really thinking too much about the job or why I was applying. Pro-tip, folks â€" this is not a good strategy. When the inevitable rejections came back, it was hard not to feel knocked back by it. Wow, was the real world really this ruthless? If they just gave me a chance, then I could show them just how perfect I am for the job and how they couldn’t find a better candidate! I’m sure I know everything there is to know about [insert job area here]! That’s how I felt, anyway. Looking back, I’ve realised just how misguided I was coming up to the end of my degree. Since graduating, I’ve been working as a Student Communications Intern at The University of Manchester Careers Service, and to say that I’ve learnt a lot in the nine months I’ve been here is possibly the understatement of the year. If I could go back and talk to myself a year ago, while I wasn’t really sure what the future held for me, there’d definitely be a few things I’d say. So in anticipation of our Grad Fair next week, and rather than hanging around until time machines are knocking about, I’ll share them here. I’ve also asked a few other recent graduates to share their experiences of entering the graduate job market, partly to give you some more useful advice, and also to give myself a dash of reassurance that I wasn’t the only one that had no idea what I was doing… REJECTION ISN’T A REASON TO PANIC This is easier said than done, but you don’t need to panic or stress about what the future holds for you. It’s really easy in your final year to see your friends getting on to graduate schemes or landing jobs and postgrad places, and to then immediately freak out at the thought that you’re not doing enough yourself. It’s important to remember that you’re only seeing other people’s successes â€" your friends probably aren’t jumping at the opportunity to shout on Facebook about how they just got a rejection email through! So don’t worry, rejection is common and is just another part of the graduate job hunt that you’ll have to expect. Similarly, you should know that there’s no need to settle for any job. Once you get a few rejections through, it’s easy to think that you just have to settle for anything that comes along â€" this is why I think people believe that graduating can be really daunting, that you don’t really have any control over what you end up doing. This couldn’t be more untrue! There are thousands of opportunities out there, and it takes time and perseverance to find it, but the right opportunity is going to be out there for you. Just so I know I’m not alone in thinking this, here are what some other recent grads have to say: “All I’d say is prepare yourself as much as possible in terms of putting a few job applications out there, sending your CV out there for approval, because you’ll get feedback back from that and you can take that on board and then apply that to another application that you may have to put in, and don’t be afraid if you get knocked back at the first hurdle.” Christopher, Criminology 2015 “Of course it’s important to apply for lots of different graduate jobs, but don’t feel like you have to accept the first offer that comes along. As a University of Manchester graduate, you’ll have skills that lots of different employers will look for.” â€" Anna, Music 2016 DON’T PRETEND YOU KNOW EVERYTHING A graduate job is a learning process, and nobody will expect you â€" a fresh-faced, eager graduate â€" to know everything straight off the bat. Entry-level roles are usually treated as an opportunity for you to build up your skills and to learn what you enjoy doing, to inform what you’re going to do further down the line. Besides, once   you’ve left university, your career is going to last for decades â€" wouldn’t it be quite boring if you’re not going to learn anything new in all those years? “Even with working in a full-time graduate job, I still have a couple of avenues open and I’d recommend for anyone to try and broaden their horizons and skill set, and not just to have one career path they’d ideally want to go down but to keep their options open and decide what they want to do when they’re ready to.” â€" Christopher YOUR FIRST JOB OUT OF UNI DOESN’T DEFINE YOU This is a big one, and is something that I think every final year should have ingrained into them. It’s incredibly rare to find people that end up in their dream job straight out of university. Usually, graduates will take a slightly meandering path through a few different roles first, where they’re able to build up their skills and their contacts before moving into something they’re truly passionate about. “I think the most important thing to think about is that you don’t need to find your perfect job straight out of university. What’s more important is that you find something that fits your skill sets, and allows you to develop as a person. Don’t forget that you’re only just about to complete your degree and you’re not going to set out your entire working life from this point onwards.”  â€" Anna “I would say you definitely don’t need to worry about finding your dream job for the rest of your career, I think when you come out of university it’s about finding what you enjoy doing, and what’s going to give you the skills and experience that you can use in anything you choose to do in future life, and you never know what it’s going to lead to in the future.” â€" Helen, Geography 2016 Next week, we’re hosting The Grad Fair, which is the perfect opportunity for you to throw yourself into the graduate job hunt, whether you’ve started looking already or not. We’re bringing over 140 exhibitors under one roof, so whether you’re looking for a graduate job, a postgraduate course or just want to explore what’s out there once you graduate, you can come and find thousands of graduate opportunities in one place. There are opportunities across all different kinds of industries, so keep an open mind and you’ll be able to meet countless employers all looking to give you the chance to learn some new skills, help their companies grow, and find the way to your ideal career. The Grad Fair Thursday 4 May 2017, 10.30am â€" 4pm The Armitage Centre, Fallowfield Free entry Sign up for tickets to beat the queue on the day All Careers advice Events and fairs Graduate Graduate jobs I don't know what to do Postgraduate Undergraduate Undergraduate-highlighted

Ruining Your Career in a Single Step Im Perfect, You Adjust

Ruining Your Career in a Single Step Im Perfect, You Adjust Im perfect. You adjust. Yes, its kind of funny when you see it on a t-shirt. Just not quite as funny when you see it actually happen in the workplace. We see it.  All. The. Time. And it can limit or ever ruin your career. Pretty darn quickly. Which is why we spend so much time at Careertopia talking about the basics of understanding others. Because the more peeps who are willing to adjust to each others communication styles natural behaviors, the happier we are at work. So if youre thinking someone might leave one of these shirts on your desk anonymously, have a look at some of our posts on the subject.

4 Areas Where Context in a Resume Supports Your Job Search

4 Areas Where Context in a Resume Supports Your Job Search Your resume should be about your career accomplishments.And not.Some things need explaining in the resume to provide context about your work. What are those things? Let’s take a look.1. CompaniesevalevalWhat people think companies do is rarely what companies do.Take smaller companies. With all of the made up company names â€" to avoid lawsuits from similar sounding names â€" it is hard to tell what a particular company actually does. So you take one sentence in the resume to explain it.Or, take a big company. There are so many divisions in the company with tens of thousands of employees, no person could tell what you do in that company unless you help provide context.“ATT is the largest data communications carrier in the United States. The cellular division provides products and services to businesses and consumers, from data networking to phones.”If you work in the cellular division, that gets the reader of your resume right to the business line where you work.By helping guide your reader to what your company does, it helps them relate to what their company does and helps them fit you into one of their roles…like the one you are doing the interview for.2.ScaleScale is an important factor to explain as it helps the person reading your resume understand your role.evalThink about managing four people versus managing ten. Or working on an in-state initiative versus a country-wide initiative. Or a global initiative. Each of those characteristics helps your reader understand the complexity and difficulty of the role.It allows your reader to ask pertinent questions about your work â€" which is exactly what you want.3. BudgetIf you are responsible for dollars, you need to state the total number of dollars you are responsible for controlling.A hundred thousand is vastly different than a hundred million. It tells the person reading your resume if the position you are interviewing for would be a big step up for you, a downgrade for you, or just right. Providing w hat the budget is used for also helps provide context around what what you are managing to make the numbers.evalEven if you don’t provide dollars, you can provide a percentage â€" you were responsible for 100% of the department’s budget for X.Businesses â€" and hiring managers â€" want you to help them achieve their business goals. By providing the budget, it shows that you can manage money, which will help them meet their goals.4.Business ResultsNot only describing your business result from your work, having numbers associated with the result helps provide context to your resume reader.“Decreased expenses” is a great business result. It is not as powerful as saying “decreased expenses by 3%.” Which is not as powerful as saying “decreased expenses by $100,000 or 3% of the total department’s budget.”Putting numbers around the business result not only helps show the benefit, but provides context around the work needed to achieve the result.Why provide context and exp lanations like this?evalOne of the biggest hurdles of a person asking interview questions is trying to get you to talk about something similar to what they need you to do. Sure, they can explain what they do, but that doesn’t help them know if you can do the work and produce their business results.You want them to have as many easy ways as possible to create questions that help them see your work relating to what they need to have done.Explaining what companies do helps them bring up similar work they do. Showing you can manage a budget gets them to ask about what you did to achieve your budget goals â€" and automatically grants you respect for managing whatever that number is on the resume.Scale helps them understand the complexity of the work you do and gives you authority around the work and the teamwork needed to get to that scale.evalAnd numbers in business results, outside of being worthwhile in and of themselves, allow the person to ask about the result which gives you the ability to share a hero’s journey from problem, to tasks taken, mountains moved, just to achieve those business results.It’s like I say: Bait the interviewer to ask good questions. You do that through context in your resume.

Headhunters versus Scam Hunters - Do Your Homework - CareerAlley

Headhunters versus Scam Hunters - Do Your Homework - CareerAlley We may receive compensation when you click on links to products from our partners. If youve been involved in a serious job search for any length of time, youve probably come across what I call Scam Hunters. These are companies that masquerade as recruiting firms and, once they contact you (and suck you in), try to sell you on a program where they claim they will represent you in your job search. The typical fee is $5,000 or so (but $10,000 and more is not unusual), but if they can get more $ out of you they will. If you do a search on these companies for complaints, you will find that most have numerous complaints and claims against them (this is certainly true for the four that have contacted me). So my point is this, a true recruiter (headhunter, executive search firm, etc.) will not charge you for their services. They are paid (either by retainer or contingency) by the hiring company. If it sounds too good to be true, it is too good to be true Tweet This While many people decide to pay for services during their job search such as resume writing, interview coaching, resume blasting, etc., this is money is generally well spent if you need the help. But dont be sucked in by slick salespeople who will sell you something you dont need and will probably never deliver. Do some research on these companies and you will see what I mean. Job Search Scams If it sounds too good to be true, it is too good to be true. Protect your personal information at all costs. Work at Home Schemes: There are probably some legitimate work at home companies out there, but the vast majority of work from home offers are scams. The FTC receives thousands of complaints on these schemes. Their sales pitches are very convincing, and they all have a list of names of individuals who supposedly made 10s of thousands of dollars. That being said, look out for: Check out the CEO, if his address is a PO Box, stay away. Find out the state of incorporation and check for complaints with the Attorney General, FTC and Better Business Bureau. Do not give your bank information, credit card information or your Social Security number. Take a look at the free FTC publication Work-at-home-Schemes. Emails about Jobs You Didnt Apply For: If you get an email from an employer or recruiter regarding a job that you dont remember applying for, there is a pretty good chance that you didnt and it is a scam. They will usually shower you with compliments about why you are the perfect candidate and then they will ask for a bunch of personal information. Dont be fooled. Ask them for their information and do a check on them (and dont give them any information). Job Search Boards: Even though a job may be posted on a legitimate job search board, the actual job may be a scam. Do not provide any personal information on the application, this information would only be given if you are hired. Also, only use job search boards that youve heard of. There are many fake job search boards out there just trying to trick you into giving up your personal information. Other Warning Signs: The pay is too good to be true You didnt contact them (but they say you did) Unprofessional emails (poor grammar, misspelled words, your name misspelled, etc.) Emails from companies your trust, offering you a job and asking your to just click here are most probably a scam (do not click on the link). Unsolicited phone calls ask for their information and a call back number. Get their name, address and do a search. Other Resources: Federal Trade Commission Better Business Bureau BBB warns against internet job scams The No-Nonsense Guide to Avoiding Scams Price: $8.69 Work At Home is a no-nonsense guide to launching a work-at-home business by this time next monthâ€"even if someone is starting from scratch. Buy Now from Amazon We earn a commission if you click this link and make a purchase at no additional cost to you. Last Updated: March 2, 2020 What's next? Ready to take action? Choose the right tools to help you build your career. Looking for related topics? Subscribe and make meaningful progress on your career. It’s about time you focused on your career. Get Educated Contact Us Advertise Copyright 2020 CareerAlley. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy + Disclosure home popular resources subscribe search

The Role of LinkedIn Profile and Resume Writing Services

The Role of LinkedIn Profile and Resume Writing ServicesLinkedIn profile and resume writing services can be found online from all over the country. However, not all of them are good! And it is not easy to find a service that is worth your time.A number of websites provide quality MLM and network marketing support to their customers. The number of services available is actually growing. These include educational and company training programs, business mentoring, networking, media training, events, tips, education, special offers, and much more.The profiles and resumes of potential employees can be used to advertise a job opening in the market. In this day and age, all successful businesses are finding new ways to reach out to their potential employees. It is for this reason that recruiting professionals are often referred to as 'searchers' because they search high and low to find people who fit the description of the company. Usually, their initial meetings begin with a consultation.N etwork marketing companies always need new recruits and so do prospective employees. LinkedIn profile and resume writing services Boston MA offer resume and cover letter writing, along with network marketing consultations, when necessary. Before joining a MLM company, one must choose one that specializes in the type of work he or she wants to perform. It would be a lot simpler if they just offered an entire professional resume and cover letter writing service.A good MLM and network marketing company should be well established in the community where the prospective employee is from. They should have plenty of resources to help potential employees learn about the business and its objectives and provide valuable industry knowledge on how to promote a position and generate leads.A networking business, like MLM, needs qualified representatives in order to succeed. The programs at LinkedIn profile and resume writing services Boston MA, which is specific to this type of business, will help you find a job in the future. You can get references from the company representative who will help you find the perfect fit for your skills and personality.It doesn't matter if you are only interested in becoming a part-time or full-time professional, these professionals can help you. A professional resume and cover letter writing service can give you insights about how to use a new technology in your network marketing career.Profile and resume writing services, such as these, are all over the internet, but these organizations specialize in specific areas. Don't be afraid to ask about what options they offer and make sure they know the field in which you want to focus on.