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Kaizen Recruiting: Calibrating for Success

How to Get a Raise

Top Certifications

Tech Salary Trends

Tech Trends Digital Strategy

Recruiting, Staffing & Employment News

Recruiting Priorities - Hot Opportunities

FEATURED PLACEMENT

Feng Hong,
Customer Support Specialist - Cloud Hosting

Hiring aggressively but with a rigorous process, Linode's ever-growing customer base and offerings necessitate top quality Linux technical support professionals. As an early leader in the cloud hosting industry that continues to be a leader in virtualization hosting, the company strives to provide the best service and technology. Proud and protective of Linode's unique culture, the hiring process puts significant weight on both a candidate's experience and hard skills as well as on the soft skills and cultural fit. With high-performance technology and service, the company demands high performance team members, and that is what they get when partnering with Redfish Technology to recruit tech professionals.

Feng Hong has solid experience in hardware/software tech support, from installing, configuring, upgrading and troubleshooting servers & networking equipment on Windows and UNIX-based systems to analyzing & monitoring systems to determine hardware, software & performance issues, and managing audit projects to ensure the integrity of datacenters. Feng has earned a Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology and holds CompTIA A+, Network+, Security+ certified, and CCNA certifications. Feng is very personable and is an excellent team player, quick learner, and self-starter. He enjoyed the thorough hiring process at Linode and is ecstatic about his new career with the company. Congratulations to Feng on this new chapter as well as the arrival of a new family member!

"Thanks to Noah and Redfish, I was able to land a job that fulfills my career goals and is a lot closer to home. Noah took the time to understand me so that my new job caters to both my career life and my family life."

- Feng Hong

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March 2015

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KAIZEN RECRUITING: CALIBRATING FOR SUCCESS

By Noah Hendricks, Executive Recruiter, Sales & Marketing

This tried and tested work philosophy of continual calibration to business processes in order to improve upon them led to many management strategies and workplace revolutions. It is a mindset that all great businesses share, whether they call it as such or not.

In recruiting, things are always changing: technologies, ATMs, job boards, social networking fads. And each and every hire is unique. It doesn't matter how many Sales Managers in EdTech for example that we recruit in a year, each of those requirements is different - even when using the same job description!

While skill sets may be a fast requirement, the team and the dynamic are unique. No matter whether it is the same product, the opportunities and challenges will be different over time. Despite a consistent process (hallelujah for those who have a consistent hiring process), personalities, timing, opportunities, location, competition, etc. are all factors in any hire, and so each talent search is unique no matter the similarities.

The best way to recruit to talent ...

HOW TO GET A RAISE Half of Tech Pros Were Not Satisfied With Their Compensation in 2014

Tech workers saw a 1.9% pay raise last year according to the 2014 Dice Tech Salary Survey. Does that feel like enough? How do you get the raise you feel you merit?

Make Sure You Are a Known Quantity

Market yourself, and use numbers - this is just like advice you hear all the time about touting your quantifiable accomplishments on your resume. Make sure you are giving a recap of your accomplishments in your reports or office meetings, using these quantified data points.

Be Present and Presenting

Not every interaction in a presentation but keep in mind that you choose your presence. Each time you interact with your boss and supervisors and colleagues, you have an opportunity to communicate with them about what you are doing and accomplishing. So rather than gripe about that bothersome client, highlight a sale, lead, new feature, code fix, or other solution you found to help promote the business.

Insinuate Yourself ...

TOP CERTIFICATIONS FOR 2015

Security, Business, Networking, Software/Hardware

Tech skills and certifications are important for all roles from the engineering side to project management. There are several recent surveys that highlight the certifications that are most in demand or that provide the best pay off. This article highlights a few of those surveys (with links to them) as well as discussed general skills trends that Redfish Technology has identified.

According to the UCLA Extension, tech certifications that make the most impact on your career and pay scale are the Microsoft Certified IT Professional, and the Cisco Certified Network Associate. A+, Server+, ACMT are the top hardware/software certifications requested in IT job postings.

The IT professionals merit badge is the Project Management Institute (PMI)'s PMP certification which enhances most any other technical credential. PMP and CAPM are the most requested project management certifications. Database technology is at the heart of many roles from analytics to data scientist.

Other certifications that pay ...

TECH SALARY TRENDS

Salaries Continue to Rise, Especially in Key Sectors, for Key Skills

There's great news in the tech industry as far as salaries go! US Tech Salaries and Bonuses are on the rise. The latest Dice Salary Survey reports a 2% annual salary increase over last year on average. Bonuses were also up for 37% of tech professionals, with a $9,538 bonus on average. Over the last five years, average tech salaries have grown each year - 2010: 0.7%, 2011: 2.4%, 2012: 5.3%, 2013: 2.6%, 2014: 1.9%.

Silicon Valley offered the highest tech salaries on average at $112610 91 3.7% rise), followed by Seattle, Baltimore/Washington, Boston, and Sacramento. You can consult Dice's interactive salary map at dice.com/salarymap.

The highest paid in 2014 were ...

TECH TRENDS - DIGITAL STRATEGY 2015
Disruptive Technologies from Algorithms to Uber

Released at the end of last year, digital strategy firm Webbmedia Group's annual report on technology trends that will affect media in 2015 is astounding! It nails the disruptive technologies that will affect consumer behavior and impact business strategy in the coming year.

Covering subjects from Algorithms to Uber, and mentioning companies from Advanced Medical Technology Association to Zendesk, this report runs the gamut of cool technologies and ideas trending now. Here are just a few:

Of deep interest, Deep Learning refers to Artificial Intelligence computers are now capable of deep learning using neural net�works. These experimental, brain-inspired systems are capable of translating pixels into English. Google and others are using neural networks and deep learning to identify various parts of a photograph or video and correctly categorize and label them without hu�man assistance.

Coming to a place near you, Ambient Proximity ...

RECRUITING, STAFFING & EMPLOYMENT NEWS

Torrential Hiring in the Cloud

A torrent of hiring last month in Cloud sectors such as Cloud Hosting, Enterprise Cloud Security, and Cloud Video Conferencing. The main roles placed were Senior Web Developer, Linux Technical Support, Senior Director Product Marketing Manager and Account Executives.

The Brookings Institute reports that the nation's advanced industries (tech sector) have led the post-recession employment recovery, playing a major role in the US economy. As of 2013, the top tech sectors employed 12.3 million workers in the US, which is approximately 9% of total US employment but produce 17% of GDP. By headcount, tech industries spend almost four times more than other industries with other businesses, creating 2.2 jobs for each new advanced industry job (0.8 locally and 1.4 outside of that job's region). So direct and indirect advanced industry employment totals almost 39 million jobs, almost 1/4th of all US employment.

Nationwide, tech jobs account for less than 5% of employment, but in tech hot spots that percentage is much higher. In Durham, tech makes up 14% of employment, Raleigh 9%, metro Detroit 14.8%, San Jose 30%, Seattle 16%, Wichita 15.5%...

RECRUITING PRIORITIES / HOT OPPORTUNITIES

This week's recruiting spotlight is on: Mid-Market, Senior Account Executive - SaaS-based B2B Digital Media Technology; Customer Success Manager - B2B Demand Generation; Senior Software Engineer - Mobile Fitness; UI-UX Designer - Communication & Collaboration Platform; and more. New high tech career opportunities daily!

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