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The Top 5 On-Boarding To Dos, Before the Start Date

Soft Skills: Easy to Feel Out, Harder to Test

Tech Salary Trends

Leverage Your Smart Phone to Land a Job

Strategic Tech Trends - Gartner

The Energy Bus - Thought Leadership

Rookie Engineer: Become a Pro

Candidate Satisfaction Survey

Recruiting, Staffing & Employment News

Recruiting Priorities - Hot Opportunities

Referral Program

FEATURED PLACEMENT

Raj Sen Sharma, Director of Product Management - Communication & Collaboration Platform

In collaboration with senior management, Redfish has been recruiting for several key roles for this Communication & Collaboration Platform creator. Moxtra provides real-time engagement via chat, voice calls, to-dos, videos, documents, screen sharing, annotation and voice and visual notes. The company's platform has a plethora of recognition from industry biggies such as TechCrunch, Forbes, and Cisco, Innovation Works; and has been rated #1 in the Apple App Store in the Collaboration category. Well-funded and growing aggressively, it was a top priority to find an exceptional Director of Product Management to drive the future growth of company service, SDK and APIs. Sales & Marketing recruiter, Tory Thomas has embraced the Moxtra communication platform in recruiting for this role and others as an easy and efficient way to share portfolios, schedule interviews, and communicate with potential candidates and the company.

Raj Sen Sharma distinguished himself by his decade of inbound and outbound focused product management and enterprise software development experience, and his love of building things. Raj was investigating opportunities but holding out for the right challenge and the right team fit, both of which are crucial elements to success as Raj knows from his long experience as a product team manager, during which he has grown teams from 5 to 50. Raj's fortes include defining product vision and creating product roadmaps with emphasis on monetization, as well as his deep technical knowledge. The Director of Product Management would be responsible for driving the delivery of the product to satisfy key business objectives; s/he would need to be very hands-on, intelligent and able to really listen to customer needs and engineering dreams - and then marry ideas together. Raj fit the bill and more.

"I can't recommend Tory highly enough - She is far and away the best recruiter I have come across. She was a pleasure to work with throughout the recruitment process, and provided excellent advice and help on all levels. She was very proactive and reliable and kept me informed during the whole interview and offer process. As a result I have ended up at a company that I really enjoy working for in a job that is interesting and challenging. She even followed up with me to see how the new job was going. I would highly recommend using Tory at Redfish Technology in your next job hunt!" - Raj Sen Sharma

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November 2014

Spooky strong tech hiring in October! Recruiters are busy! And the hiring process is moving quickly to secure great talent. Check out Tory's tips on5 On-boarding To Dos below.

- the Redfish Team

THE TOP FIVE ON-BOARDING TO-DOS

BEFORE THE START DATE

By Tory Thomas, Sales & Marketing Tech Recruiter

Tory Thomas

You may be asking "Why on-board before the start date?"

Well... really you should be on-boarding from the first contact with a candidate. When you receive a resume from a candidate, you should be sending a warm acknowledgment, even if you aren't hiring for that exact profile right now. This is how you build your talent pipeline.

On-boarding between when the offer is accepted and the actual start date can be critical and it can make all the difference in your team building success. This is a stage that too often is ignored or even bungled by hiring companies.

Again, you may be wondering "Why worry about this when the candidate has already accepted the offer? Can't I just wait until they show up in 2 weeks from now on a Monday morning?"

There are still many things that can go wrong before the start...

SOFT SKILLS: EASY TO FEEL OUT, HARDER TO TEST

While hard skills are fairly easy to evaluate, soft skills are harder.

The soft skills are rather intangible: communication, leadership, critical thinking, creativity, team collaboration, attitude, common sense, and relationships, amongst others.

Coding and problem-solving tests are fairly straightforward ways to gauge hard skill level, but how do you measure a candidate's soft skills?

Evaluating Soft Skills -

Social Media

Almost everyone in the United States has at least one social networking profile at this point, so researching a candidate's online presence is fairly easy. Social media and websites provide an interesting window into a person's soft skills. Of interest is everything from how thoroughly and professionally people present themselves, to the content and comments that they choose to post on online media.

Video Interviewing & Other Evaluation Methods...

TECH SALARY TRENDS

& SKILLS / POSITIONS IN DEMAND

Tech is the place to be. From higher pay and lower unemployment, innovative technologies and company cultures, the biggest problem in tech these days is recruiting and retaining the talent needed.

When it comes to salaries, a Bachelor's Degree in STEM is hard to beat.

STEM leads the pack. Engineers not only rule the world, they are rocking the earnings. Mid-career salaries are highest for Petroleum Engineers, followed by Actuarial Mathematics, Nuclear/Chemical/Electronics & Communications Engineers according to PayScale.com's recent survey on the majors with the biggest impact on future earnings.

Information Technology salaries have gone up ...

LEVERAGE YOUR SMARTPHONE TO LAND A JOB

You may not realize it, but you just might have that job you're aiming for in the palm of your hand. No, we're not talking about professional burrito tasters. Smartphones today are equipped with cameras good enough to make a snazzy video introduction or resume that can shoot you right to the top of a crowded list of applicants. Your video isn't limited to the quality of your smartphone but the creativity of your mind.

How to do this...

STRATEGIC TECH TRENDS FROM GARTNER
- WHAT'S ACTUALLY NEW THIS YEAR?

The Gartner symposium showcases analysts' strategic technology trends with the most potential for impact over the next few years. These trends fall into three broad categories: the merging of the real and virtual worlds, the advent of intelligence everywhere, and the technology impact of the digital business shift.

The differences between 2015 and 2014 predictions are fairly minimal in terms of category, the stand outs for next year are: "Advanced, Pervasive and Invisible Analytics", "Context-Rich Systems", and "Risk-Based Security and Self-Protection".

The following high-light these new categories ...

THE ENERGY BUS

Redfish Team Thought Leadership, Stimulating Ideas, and Innovation Discussions

This week we read and discussed Jon Gordon's "The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy". This is a quick read that provides some nice guidelines for directing your intention and energy in positive and productive directions.

I liken it to yoga really, the principle that the universe is made up of energy and that we all interact and feed off the energy that we and others are creating, passively or actively. And the key here is that we all put out energy, so make it an intentional, active, and positive energy.

Rather than unveil the Ten Rules here, let me share the Redfish team discussion with you. Rob Reeves, our fearless CEO, asked each member of the team to consider and answer several light and fluffy questions:

What are our goals? What do we see in the future? ...

ROOKIE ENGINEERS: HOW TO BECOME A PRO

A successful career in engineering starts with a foundation of academic knowledge and grows with hands-on experience, thanks to mentorship programs</a> like those offered through the National Society of Professional Engineers. Many companies see the value in hiring engineering rookies who bring cutting-edge knowledge paired with a fresh perspective on industry challenges. Here are a few ways to identify some of the must-know technologies and necessities to help stand out from your competition.

Understand your niche ...

REDFISH TECHNOLOGY RECRUITING CANDIDATE SATISFACTION SURVEY RESULTS

As part of our commitment to continuous improvement, this on-going survey asks candidates placed by the high tech recruiters at Redfish Technology for feedback on the recruiting process. Candidate experience and satisfaction is of great importance to Redfish, as recruiting is a partnership and must be a win-win proposition. The feedback was very positive overall with some areas for improvement identified; most candidates were directly recruited while about a quarter of placements found Redfish opportunities via the company's marketing efforts.

Candidates were asked ...

RECRUITING, STAFFING & EMPLOYMENT NEWS

Spooky Strong Hiring in October
Sales & Tech Hiring Continue Upward Trend

Sales hiring was spooky strong in October, we placed a number of positions such as Director of Sales, Sales Executive, and Account Executive this last month. Other hiring included technical professionals including the positions of Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer and Linux Technical Support. The hottest tech sector hiring was in Fitness Diagnostic Technology, Network Security, Web CRM Software, eLearning, and Cloud Hosting.

Dice reported on the big tech layoffs this quarter at Cisco and Microsoft Research Silicon Valley but noted that recruiters are busier than ever. Mergers and acquisitions abound, and companies are growing - Google has grown by 7,000 employees over the last year. The unemployment rate for all categories last month came in at 5.8 percent, but tech professionals are nearly half that at 3% in October.