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August 25, 2016 at 7:48 AM #800861August 25, 2016 at 9:27 AM #800862
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Participant[quote=Rich Toscano][quote=mixxalot]H1b and outsourcing of STEM engineering jobs to India and China has severely impacted American engineers! That is fact which you cannot deny. In USA and Europe, there are still good jobs but not that many.[/quote]
That’s doesn’t seem to be the case in software, from my observation. Everyone I know in the software tech industry is desperately trying to find good people to hire… there are more job openings than there are qualified candidates.[/quote]
In San Diego at least there has been a shortage of senior IOS and Android developers. There are also a handful of startups trying to do the same thing. The complaint from recruiters is my company has poached most of them already from other places locally, lol.
The bigger problem is that you’ve got a lot of talent from large employers like Qualcomm, but a lot of them though can only do embedded software, have not done any mobile software. So it’s hard for those folks, to cross over and fill the skills gap unless they have invested the time to do it themselves. Same could be said for IT backend developers and vice versus.
We hired a recruiting agency to hire contractors, and one of the buffoon contractors cold called people at my company asking if they would like to be a contractor to work on a project at my company. Lol.
Market look pretty good in San Diego imho.
August 25, 2016 at 1:32 PM #800869njtosd
Participant[quote=bullishgurl]
We hired a recruiting agency to hire contractors, and one of the buffoon contractors cold called people at my company asking if they would like to be a contractor to work on a project at my company. Lol.
Market look pretty good in San Diego imho.[/quote]
FWIW – When hiring for a position, I would have someone (or more than one) person in your company submit a fake resume through the online system that is reasonably like the person you are looking for and see if the recruiting agency picks it up. I have talked to a number of people in HR and the screening software is not great. It assumes that people will use the buzzwords in the posting and use them in the right context. Especially when it comes to engineers/CS types (and I have read a lot of stuff written by engineers . . .) their writing skills can be a little non-standard. (Not always – I know I am going to hear about that one.) Add to that the issue of a lot of your applicants being people for whom English is not their first language . . . It seems like it’s not a great system – some smart CS person on this board should think about coming up with something better.
August 25, 2016 at 1:38 PM #800870Participant[quote=njtosd][quote=bullishgurl]
We hired a recruiting agency to hire contractors, and one of the buffoon contractors cold called people at my company asking if they would like to be a contractor to work on a project at my company. Lol.
Market look pretty good in San Diego imho.[/quote]
FWIW – When hiring for a position, I would have someone (or more than one) person in your company submit a fake resume through the online system that is reasonably like the person you are looking for and see if the recruiting agency picks it up. I have talked to a number of people in HR and the screening software is not great. It assumes that people will use the buzzwords in the posting and use them in the right context. Especially when it comes to engineers/CS types (and I have read a lot of stuff written by engineers . . .) their writing skills can be a little non-standard. (Not always – I know I am going to hear about that one.) Add to that the issue of a lot of your applicants being people for whom English is not their first language . . . It seems like it’s not a great system – some smart CS person on this board should think about coming up with something better.[/quote]
A 30 minute phone screen usually flushes out who is real and who is a fake. We also have an online submission process directly.
August 25, 2016 at 2:27 PM #800871Participant[quote=bullishgurl]
A 30 minute phone screen usually flushes out who is real and who is a fake. We also have an online submission process directly.[/quote]
Hmm. Maybe I didn’t say it right. It’s not a matter of the applicants being fake – it’s a matter of the software missing (a lot) of qualified applicants. The fake resume is a positive control to see if they will actually capture the people you want.
If the resumes can get through without going through the screening software then I guess it doesn’t matter. In your case if there aren’t many people for the positions you don’t have to wade through much. Just a thought.
August 25, 2016 at 3:50 PM #800876Participant[quote=njtosd][quote=bullishgurl]
A 30 minute phone screen usually flushes out who is real and who is a fake. We also have an online submission process directly.[/quote]
Hmm. Maybe I didn’t say it right. It’s not a matter of the applicants being fake – it’s a matter of the software missing (a lot) of qualified applicants. The fake resume is a positive control to see if they will actually capture the people you want.
If the resumes can get through without going through the screening software then I guess it doesn’t matter. In your case if there aren’t many people for the positions you don’t have to wade through much. Just a thought.[/quote]
Ah.. ic.
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