Many companies use psychometric tests for personnel recruitment, about 18% of companies use these tests (according to a survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management). However, according to organizational psychologists, this number grows year after year, between 10-15%. 80% of Fortune 500 top companies in the United States and 75% of the top 100 companies in the United Kingdom use psychometric tests. The...
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Over time, the roles of developers have become more specialized. Before, it was expected that a developer could do everything (which is still valuable in any case, when found). Now, it is common to divide the roles according to their specialization. This is the case of front-end developers, developers specialized in the "face" of the application, unlike back-end developers, who focus on the processes that...
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As professionals in recruitment and selection, it is crucial to keep updated with the latest strategies and technological advances. Developing new skills related to the field in which we operate is never too much, as they help us advance in our careers. Acquiring new knowledge is not just a matter of beginners; since trends are always changing, technology is always innovating, and job opportunities are...
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Evaluating an IT professional is often a challenge for average recruiters, and those who have been in the hiring position are well aware of the difficulty of evaluating candidates for technology positions. Most of the time this is because the distinctive qualities of software engineering candidates are considerably difficult to evaluate. Hiring developers is indeed an art. However, there are approaches and methodologies to evaluate...
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Structured interview, also known as a standardized interview, is well known for its impartiality and, as the name implies, its standardization, resulting in a very effective personnel selection technique. It is almost twice as effective as a traditional interview. The structured interview tends to be used when the employer seeks to study each candidate equitably and evaluate factors that may be hard to measure by...
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A common mistake of software development managers is not spending the time and resources needed for a good selection process. Probably this is because few are aware of the high cost of hiring the wrong developer. I hope that after reading this article you will change your mind and realize that there is probably no effort that is not worth it to get the right...
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Intelligence testing is used in many selection processes, but its use has long been questioned for many reasons. The first questionings were based on the concern to discriminate in case the test favors or disfavors people with a characteristic that should not be a deciding factor. For example, imagine that while in India a foreigner applies for a Java developer job and encounters the question...
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Most ventures have some relationship with technology, either because of their very raison d'être is to offer a technological product or because they require technology to operate efficiently. This means that probably one of the first employees to be hired by a startup is an IT person. The problem is that, as we saw in previous posts, these profiles are one of the most demanded....
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A better title for this post would have been "The most in-demand development professionals 2018", but I found this one more entertaining. Any manager or recruiter who has been looking for a bilingual Java developer recently will understand the irony. This position is pretty hard to fill, especially if you add that you are looking for an enterprise-level Java developer. Back 20 years ago, hiring...
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In several posts I have commented on the importance of a good selection process to incorporate the best developers into a team, focusing on the testing and selection processes themselves. However, recruiting IT professionals is not like the last decade (and less like the decade before this one). I started working as a developer in the late 90's, after studying the "career of the future"....
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