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In 2014, Gallup did a survey basically asking business leaders and Chief Academic Officers of higher education institution one question: “Do you believe academic programs are preparing graduates for jobs?” Here are the results: We could probably guess the outcome, right!? Now, the higher education folks, understandably, get a little worked up over stuff like this. Many in higher ed …
Your recruiting team is headed into vast, uncharted territory. It’s great for business, but might be too much for your team, as is, to handle. What’s a leader to do? On this episode of The New School Podcast, brought to you by Udacity, host Tim Sackett and his guest Jay Kuhns dig into ways to quickly and effectively bulk up …
There’s a barrier that is keeping corporate talent acquisition from reaching its highest levels of productivity. That barrier is incentive compensation, and the reason it’s a barrier is because no organization has figured out how to solve it. The main reason for this is there isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution. The main problem is that most corporate TA leaders who attempt …
A few weeks ago, Google laid down the law on coding camps and hacker schools, saying that they were not producing candidates who were up to their company’s standards. But is this a belief that should be held across the board? In this episode of The New School Podcast, brought to you by Udacity, host Tim Sackett and his guest …
You might have seen this recently over at Business Insider, Google’s director of education and university relations, Maggie Johnson, came out and publicly slammed the popular short educational coding programs many call “coding bootcamps” in the IT industry. From Johnson: “Our experience has found that most graduates from these programs are not quite prepared for software engineering roles at Google …
The LinkedIn Disease: a plague that is running rampant among new recruiters who are fresh on the job. Common symptoms include grabbing low hanging fruit from LinkedIn when sourcing and sending out 400 InMails, then getting excited when you receive single digit responses. What’s the cure? Going back to basics. On this episode of The New School Podcast, brought to …
We are all having trouble finding technical talent. One issue that’s unique is when you need tech talent, but you also need that talent to have experience with the latest technology! I’m not talking JAVA, I’m talking technology and languages developed in the past zero to three years. You know, when that great IT Manager of yours asks for five …
Take a look into the ever-changing world of talent acquisition through the eyes of an analyst… On this edition of The New School Podcast, brought to you by Udacity, our host Tim Sackett sits down with Madeline Laurano. Madeline is the cofounder of Aptitude Research, an analyst firm, and, as Tim describes her, “a goddess of talent acquisition.” Dive deep …
Stack Overflow recently released the results from their annual Developer Survey and this year over 56,000 Developers from 173 countries answered questions about the tech they love, the tech they hate and dozens of other questions that will help you understand them better and recruit them to your organization! Stack Overflow is the largest online community for programmers in the world. Here …
On the latest edition of The New School Podcast: Have trouble getting candidates to respond to you? Maybe it’s time to rethink your approach. On this episode of The New School Podcast, sponsored by Udacity, host Tim Sackett and guest Kerri Mills, an executive sourcer with Indeed, cook up their secret sauce recipe for raising the response rate bar. (email …
