Tag: Recruiting Engineers
City Lights, Engineering Heights: Using Chicago to Attract Top Engineers
Chicago has rapidly gained a well-deserved reputation as a significant player in the tech industry, particularly after the recent opening of the 1871 innovation hub. But this also means that there is stiff competition to attract top engineers. You may need to look further afield to keep your teams fully staffed. Fortunately, the city of… Read more »
How to Attract Young Engineers
Graduating college students can be an excellent source of new hires. But if you’re still recruiting on campus the way you did 30 years ago, luring students to your career fair booth with free pizza and T-shirts, you’re never going to attract the candidates you want. You also won’t get far by paying for email… Read more »
How to Find Top Talent in The Bay Area
The Bay Area, like the rest of the United States, is currently experiencing a hiring crisis, including San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Fremont, and Pleasanton areas. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to what some are calling the Great Resignation, as legions of employees quit their jobs. In a technical field such as engineering,… Read more »
How to Find Better Candidates, While Saving Money
Recruiting engineers isn’t cheap. You’ll need to find them, vet them, and ultimately hire them. Which translates into a time-consuming and often expensive process of writing job descriptions and paying to post them. Then you have to go through seemingly endless rounds of interviews. Meanwhile, your engineering team members are working frantically to try to… Read more »
Why Is Recruiting Engineers So Difficult?
If you’re trying to hire an engineer, you might feel like there simply aren’t any top-tier candidates out there. Too often, trying to fill engineering positions can feel like a complex math problem with no real solution. The truth is, though, that highly qualified engineers are out there, and with a few tweaks to your… Read more »
Most Innovative Ways to Attract Engineering Talent
Post a job. Wait for engineering candidates. Hope for the best. If this is how you approach recruiting engineers, you’re probably struggling to attract great people. And yet, this is the approach most hiring managers still take in an environment where STEM talent is hard to find. If you want to attract top engineering talent,… Read more »