Finding and applying for the job might be easy with many job search websites, but when it’s time to face your very first interview, the thought wil probably scare the living daylights out of you (or at the very least, intimidate you). Everyone has to face their very first interview. You will probably approach this with the highest of hopes and confidence and possibly be in for a few surprises.
Looking for a new job?
It helps to know which companies are hiring.
But more than that. It helps to know which companies have lots of openings. The more employees they need, the better your chances to get the job you want at the salary you want.
With that in mind, we asked job search site Indeed.com to sift through its massive database of job openings to tell us which tech companies are in hyper-hiring mode, with thousands of openings.
Kevin Lynch, Adobe’s CTO and a longtime defender of its Flash technology, is leaving the company to take a position at one of Flash’s biggest critics: Apple.
Lynch tendered his resignation yesterday saying he planned to “pursue other opportunities.” And, according to Adobe, those opportunities are at Apple.
“Kevin Lynch, Adobe CTO, is leaving the company effective March 22 to take a position at Apple,” an Adobe spokesperson told AllThingsD. “We will not be replacing the CTO position; responsibility for technology development lies with our business unit heads under the leadership of Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen. Bryan Lamkin, who has recently returned to Adobe, will assume responsibilities for cross company research and technology initiatives as well as Corporate Development. We wish Kevin well in this new chapter of his career.”
If you’re hiring in the coming months, you very likely have at least one eye on the newest crop of potential future employees: soon-to-be-graduating college seniors.
New grads can be a great resource for companies of any size—they’re full of energy and new ideas and willing to get their hands dirty in their first real-world job.
But as you’re thinking about recruiting new grads this spring, take a peek at what things look like from the other side of the table.
College recruiting has some interesting—and sometimes unfortunate—parallels to dating in middle school. Students are “flirting” for the first time, and recruiters are all too often making the big mistakes their parents told them to avoid during early courtship.
As you’re interviewing new grads for their first gig, there are three rules to follow to make sure you don’t jump into the wrong relationship (or lose a great candidate).
When work volumes surge, or when you simply have a project you don’t have the skillset for, hiring subcontractors is one path you may consider. However, before you do so, it is best if you know not only the advantages of hiring subcontractors but also some potential issues to watch for. To help you with this decision, here are some pros and cons to consider...
Most CEOs don't have the time to personally interview every person who joins their company. But they absolutely set the priorities and culture that factor into every single hiring decision, and are intensely involved with top level hires.
Those are some of the most important decisions they can make, so company leaders tend to have strong opinions about the kind of people they want at their company.
So whether you're eyeing the C-suite or trying to figure out what gets you in the door at some of America's biggest companies, we've compiled some of the best tips executives have shared over the years on what impresses them, including top tech CEOs like Steve Ballmer, entrepreneurial icons like Elon Musk, and empire builders like Richard Branson.
When you type out any search word, Google or other search engines display sites that they believe are authoritative and relevant to the words typed in. The relevance is measured by making an analysis of the content in the words. The authoritative aspect is measured based on the quality of the page content, the number of pages linked to the page and so on.
Most businesses start pretty small; sometimes with only you or yourself and a partner to handle all the responsibilities. But at some point, as customers increase and business grows, you’ll need to hire an employee or a contractor to outsource work to. Hiring your first employee can be relatively simple; most managers or business owners utilize the traditional resume and interview method.
This can usually work out fine, but you might want to consider things a bit more carefully before saying yes to any applicants. Read these tips on hiring your first employee and you’ll improve your chances of ensuring that the employee or contractor is one that will perform to your expectations, as well as stay with you long-term instead of seeking employment elsewhere.
Listen up, hiring managers. A study from research firm Development Dimensions International revealed yesterday that many employers often misrepresent the finer details of their company and the open position during interviews, leaving many recruits eventually disappointed with their new job.
Specifically, the survey found that only 51% of new employees "felt confident in their decision to accept the job." DDI found this figure after surveying 2,300 new hires with an average age of 35.
"…[H]iring is a high-stakes interaction and managers are not necessarily capable of discerning what a candidate can really bring to a company. So they base it on gut instinct and a lot of times that gut instinct is wrong," Scott Erker, DDI’s vice president of select systems and co-author of the study, told The Wall Street Journal.
Go Daddy may be best known for its racy Super Bowl commercials, but after having added more than 1,400 new employees in three years, the domain registration and hosting company has also made a name for itself as one of the nation's top job creators.
Lane Jarvis, Go Daddy's chief human resources officer, describes her main recruiting strategies.
If Marc Andreesen is right (and I happen to believe he is) then talented software developers will soon be the most sought after type of employee for just about any company, whether that company’s main business is building software or not. Attracting and hiring great software developers for your company is difficult, but it’s not impossible. Here are some tips to get you started...
he only way to grow your small business into a real company is to hire employees. While doing this well will be one of your biggest keys to success, it is also the most difficult to achieve. Small-business owners are notorious for being bad at hiring employees who make valuable contributions over a long period of time.
Here are the seven keys to staffing up your company effectively.
Corporate recruiters must constantly be on the hunt for new talent. To do this, they need to understand what candidates are looking for in a career in terms of compensation, culture and perks. Even in today's lagging economy with a high unemployment rate, there is still a war for talent. To be competitive, companies must innovate and it takes the best and brightest to get there.
It's the reason why big companies, such as Amazon, will open offices in different cities near top universities. I see this happening a lot in Boston. Near MIT, you can find some of the largest technology companies including Google and Microsoft. They have to have buildings there in order to better attract the MIT graduates, who are some of the most prized. A new study by Careerbuilder called "Candidate Behavior 2012" shows six key trends that employers need to know about.
When it's time to fill a key position, should you look inside or outside your company? Here's a look at the pros and cons of both strategies.
Social recruitment market is going crazy these days as more and more companies are getting into the segment which has huge potential. Two weeks ago,Social Talent was asked to pick the brains of recruiters, agency and in-house alike, in their use of Social in their recruiting mix. There was such scarce up-to-date data available on how recruiters actually use the net to hire that some of the results of our survey took them by pleasant surprise.
When hiring a graphic designer you want to be sure they will cope with all the challenges you give them. Here’s a quick guide on how to best hire a graphic designer you know will help you.
A few months back, New York Times Bestseller, Gary Vaynerchuk said that 95% of Social Media consultants were “bozos”. Although Gary apologized for his hyperbole, on some level we agree that businesses would be better off if they asked their agencies better questions up-front.
Since social media has taken a front-seat role in many communications plans it pays to dig deep and really understand what your social media agency has “under the hood.” This isn’t new, the web is filled with helpful agency hiring checklists, but most of them ask the wrong questions.
When describing the skills shortages plaguing their companies, CEOs sound like the Ancient Mariner: Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink! Even with the unemployment rate at 8.2%, business leaders complain there aren't enough people qualified to fill "today's jobs," shorthand for positionsthat require expertise in specific technologies or pretty much anything in health care. Usually, America's schools are the fall guys. Primary education, we are told, does a lousy job imparting the fundamentals of math and science. Colleges graduate too many liberal arts majors, when they graduate people at all.
Picking someone to build a website for you is not an easy task. Even if you are not building the next Gmail, you should be doing things right the first time. But picking a good Web developer is not a simple task, especially if you don’t know much about creating websites yourself. If you can’t really tell PHP apart from CSS, how should you know if the person in front of you (or on the other side of the email) really knows their business?
Job candidates make a lot of mistakes in interviews. That's bad—at least for a person hoping to get hired—but what's much worse is when you, as the interviewer, make one of the following mistakes...
