Recruiters are a job-seekers best resource. We’re not sharing this because we’re in the staffing business, either. Landing the right job is a game of numbers, and the numbers show that 80% of jobs are not posted online. In addition to connecting you with jobs before they hit the market, how can recruiters help your… Read More »
AARP says every day, 10,000 baby boomers reach retirement age. That leaves companies with a lot of young talent waiting in the wings. Forbes says 86 million millennials will be in the workplace next year; that’s 40% of the workforce. How businesses will reach out to generation Y, more commonly known as the millennial population,… Read More »
One of the biggest benefits of today’s virtual work environments is that our hiring isn’t limited by geography. This is particularly enticing when building software teams. The developer market is increasingly tight, so finding local talent with a specialized set of skills is extremely difficult. But if you can search nationally or even globally for… Read More »
It would be highly unusual if you didn’t understand the importance of social media today. The nightly news talks about Twitter and most Americans spend time every day on some form of social media, whether it’s the old standby Facebook, Instagram, or something else. But what you might not be aware of is that social… Read More »
Blackstone participated in ISACA’s Cloud Computing Conference yesterday in Arlington, VA. As migrating to the cloud is becoming a ‘when’ and not an ‘if’ for most organizations, it’s exciting to see the various cloud deployment strategies organizations are deploying. And the advancement in DevOps to mature to a true DevSecOps software delivery framework –… Read More »
Blackstone Talent Group was proud to be part of the 5th Annual AFAC charity golf event at The Army Navy Golf Club for the Arlington Food Assistance Center and contribute to the cause. AFAC feeds over 2,400 elderly, disabled, and financially distressed families in Arlington County, VA each week. AFAC is financially funded through donations… Read More »
It seems like everyone is in a hurry today in our jobs and at home. For Human Resources (HR) the pressure to speed up the hiring process is almost constant. It’s the result of today’s faster pace but also because the unemployment rate is so low, that finding the right candidate often takes much more… Read More »
The demand for cybersecurity experts is at an all-time high. Techcrunch says employers’ posted more than 300,000 cybersecurity jobs between September 2017 and August 2018 and globally there is a gap of nearly three million unfilled roles to be filled. Interestingly, many of these jobs are not traditional programming positions but instead, range across a… Read More »
Last year Gallup reported that onboarding is key to employee retention. With historically low unemployment levels and a particular need nationwide for more IT talent, anything employers can do to improve hiring and retention is a good thing. Ironically, the same Gallup polling numbers showed despite the importance of onboarding, only 12% of our employees… Read More »
What if you had a technology expert at your fingertips that could bring you in as part of an IT “hit squad” when a company needed help? That’s the power of IT contract work. This type of work is sometimes maligned because of misconceptions around older contract models. Instead, IT contract help is more modern,… Read More »