Does Your Business Culture Encourage Innovation?
Any business must regularly contend with a variety of competitors. To stand out in a crowd of companies fighting for customer and investor attention, organizations must have something unique. As…
How Goal-Based Hiring Improves Your Odds Of A Great Hire
Job plans and performance evaluations now make up the backbone of every successful organization. Yet for many organizations, hiring practices still rely on outdated methods that grade a person on…
What 15 Top Tech Entrepreneurs Say About Startup Hiring and Culture Fit Assessment
When a business chooses a new hire, that person is becoming a part of the team. Often hiring managers spend so much time focusing on finding the right fit for…
The First 30 Minutes: A Three-Part Guide to Hiring The Right Employee
Finding great employees can be more challenging than some managers realize. Often without realizing it, interviewers base their choices on initial first impressions, which can be dangerously inaccurate in a…
10 Ways to Improve Your Organizational Culture
Are your employees happy? Whether the answer to that question is "yes" or "no," chances are the reason for that answer is an undefinable something that makes your workplace better…
3 Reasons IT Managers Should Retain Coding Skills
As IT professionals rise through the ranks, it can be easy to lose touch with the very skills that impressed executives in the first place. For software engineers, this is…
Mindfulness: What It Is, How It Can Help You
When professionals think of meditation, the first thing that often comes to mind is religion. But while meditation may be widely used in Eastern spiritual practices, the act of quieting…
Maslow’s Hierarchy of an IT Manager’s Needs
As an IT manager, your team is the backbone of operations. Recruiting, training, and keeping highly-skilled professionals is among the most important things you do. Even the most basic staffing…
We surveyed over 100 CIOs. Here’s what they said about IT Hires…
What Trait Do CIOs Value Most in their IT Talent? In a recent poll surveying over 100 CIOs on their priorities in staffing decisions, Atavas Technical Staffing found that 63%…
Stop Making $50,000 Hiring Mistakes
I wanted to pass on this blog post from Debbie Fledderjohann, a partner of ours. Mis-hires are expensive and disruptive. Contracting is a great alternative to relieve near-term pressure so…