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Hiring the Right Skills

Looking for great employees? Build a great culture

In a world of speeds and feeds, it’s easy to forget that providing IT services is still a business of, by and for other people. Nowhere is that more true than when it comes to hiring and training your own staff. Hiring the right people isn’t easy. In a recent survey of hiring managers conducted by HR software supplier CareerBuilder, 70 percent of respondents said it’s gotten harder than ever to find qualified candidates. Online job boards aren’t helping: Slightly more than half said they’re finding it harder to differentiate the right candidate from a sea of applicants. Retention is...

	Winning the Talent Hunt Looking to hire top tech talent? If so, you’re far from alone. But are you unable — or unwilling — to pay the kinds of high salaries today’s tech professionals seek? Don’t despair.
	How to keep top employees—longer It’s the reality of our time—there’s a talent gap in the technology industry, and good, qualified candidates can be hard to come by. If you’ve been lucky enough to attract Millennials and other highly qualified employees...
	Looking for great employees? Build a great culture In a world of speeds and feeds, it’s easy to forget that providing IT services is still a business of, by and for other people. Nowhere is that more true than when it comes to hiring and training your own staff.
	Why you should hire Millennials & how to get them to come work for you According to Michael Rosenbaum of Catalyst DevWorks, by 2020, there will be 1.4M computer specialist job openings and less than 30 percent of the needed qualified grads to fill them.
	Learning from the Millennial mindset We live in an increasingly “connected” world. Millennials especially have grown up in a culture where they have an app to order pizza and arguments are resolved immediately, with the help of Siri.
	Building a successful sales team to maximize profitability One of the most critical aspects of building a successful cloud business is ensuring that you have the right sales structure and the right sales force in place.

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