Best Blogs of November

Our Best Blogs of November includes stories about evaluating the talent throughout your entire company, improving your chances of sourcing skilled workers and the top tech jobs expected to blow up in 2017. That’s a lot of great stuff to read while digging into those Thanksgiving leftovers!

Just how talented is your management team?

You might think everyone in your business is performing at or above an average level, but how do honestly assess their skills and performance?

According to business consultant Jim Schleckser, CEOs have a tendency to give inflated grades were scoring their employees performance, particularly to the members of their management team.

This bias is known as a ‘central tendency problem’. Put simply, it’s statistically improbable that every person in an executive team is performing above average.

One method to assess employee performance famously used by General Electric put employees into several performance bands: 20 percent of workers were performing above expectations, 60 to 70 percent were meeting expectations and the last 10 to 20 percent were considered performing below expectations. The objective of this system is to reveal just how talent in your organization stacks up.

Read the full article here.

Boost Your Chances of Landing Top Talent

If your company is having trouble finding elite-level talent, you should look into how you found your current employees.

Research by the IT recruiting company Lever has shown candidates referred to a business have a 1-in-16 chance of being hired; candidates referred by a recruiting agent or company have a 1-in-22 chance and candidate sourced by a company have a 1 in 72 chance of being hired. Applicants who apply through a company’s career site or job posting have the worst possibility of being hired; just one out of 152 applicants are hired that way.

According to Leela Srinivasan, CMO at Lever, to source the most qualified talent, companies should consider how to identify job candidates. Building connections and growing a company’s network is one of the most effective ways to generate a pool of talent that has a good chance of being hired by your company.

Read the full article here.

Career Site Projects Hot IT Jobs for 2017

The website CareerCast recently used its internal data on the best IT jobs for 2016 and how fast each type of job is growing to project outlooks for 2017.

The best outlook, the job-hunting site determined, was for web developer. With an average annual salary of around $65,000, web developers can expect healthy job prospects next year as CareerCast has projected a 27-percent growth in the field through 2024.

CareerCast also found that computer systems analysts, information security analysts, software engineers, data scientists and network and computer systems administrators can all expect healthy job prospects in the coming years.

Read the full article here.

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