As many of you are going through the recruiting process now I felt I should address one of the many questions I get:
what is the typical salary range for a given position?
Now, of course, because we are the little guy we don’t have access to current salary surveys (they cost a fortune) but we do have access to [...]

Clearly I’m in an “HR” kinda way these days.  So, in order to round out our series on the recruiting process, prescreen interview questions, and online skills assessment I’ll also throw in reference checks.
Reference checking is extremely important - although I’ve always cheekily thought: who would actually provide a reference that wasn’t going to provide [...]

As I mentioned before there has been an uptick in sales at a lot of my clients which triggered a release of the tight grip on expenses.  As such, some open headcount positions that were previously on hold are being actively recruited for and, of course, given that everyone is looking for work we are being inundated [...]

Last week an interesting powerpoint presentation made the rounds of the tech-community: Netflix’s “Reference Guide on our Freedom & Responsibility Culture“.  Yes, Netflix is a billion dollar, publicly traded company with 1,900 employees but even you, the little guy, needs to go through this slide deck.  Why?  Because Netflix has a very interesting approach to [...]