Navigator:

TR is SemCo™'s one-day, instructor-led web-based training that covers the complete recruiting life cycle and stresses the problems unique to IT recruiters including: finding techies with rare skill sets, screening through resumes that are difficult to read, interviewing people who seem to speak another language, and negotiating with techies by understanding their key desires. The program covers the six basic areas of IT recruiting. Throughout the seminar the RecruitingLinks portal is referenced to show recruiters links to such information as job boards, salary surveys for technical positions, applicant tracking systems, and much more.

Audience:

Participants in this web-based training include new IT recruiters and experienced recruiters who are new to the Information Technology specialty. Experienced recruiters who want to review recruiting technologies, and account managers who interact with technical recruiters also attend.

TR Objectives:

Technical recruiting has its own unique set of problems caused by looking for people who have odd skills with strange-sounding names! IT recruiters have to deal with jobs that are not inherently easy to understand. SemCo™'s technical recruiting curriculum was designed to help IT recruiters work with specific IT jobs and IT professionals. Upon completion of the training, the recruiter will be able to:

• Use the Internet effectively by knowing where and how to post jobs and search for resumes;
• Analyze a job requisition;
• Evaluate a technical resume;
• Conduct phone interviews and screens, including cold calls;
• Differentiate between a technical screen and a technical interview;
• Understand and prepare questions for a technical screen;
• Conduct a technical screen to qualify a candidate;
• Interview candidates based upon commonly used methodologies;
• Win both the candidate and the job requestor/hiring manager's confidence;
• Evaluate Internet recruiting activity;
• Build an Internet recruiting plan and revise it;
• Successfully negotiate with potential technical people by knowing what's important to them.

TR Outline:

Recruiting Life Cycle

Job requisitions

Start of negotiation

Overview

Job dimensions

Computer environment

Servers

Desktop

Job Type

Application developer

Technical developer

Support

Experience level

Junior

Mid-level

Senior

Technical skills

Sourcing

Advertising

Options

Ad contents

Internal Sources

Employee referrals

Databases – ATS (Application Tracking Systems)

Networking

Referrals

Associations

Job Fairs

Meetings/Conferences/Training sessions

Trades

Thank you, personal touches

Internet Recruiting

Posting

Searching

Internet strategy

Cold Calling

Active/Passive candidates

Screening

Understanding the job

Understanding a specific job requirement

Understanding general positions

Screening resumes

What to look for

Resume red flags

Matching skills to the requirement

Screening by phone or in-person

Screening interview

Verifying what's on the resume

Checking for basic skill knowledge

Suggested questions

General questions on background

Specific technical questions

Interviewing

General interviews

Interview structure

Types of interviews

Types of questions

Specific questions for technical candidates

Technical interviews

Technical questions

Technical testing

Interviewing red flags

Legal issues

Negotiating

Interviewing

Working with candidate's goals

Common IT candidate goals

Post-interview process

Hire/No-hire decision

Decision options

Reference/background checks

Prepare bargaining options

Job Offer

Offer contents

Dates

Negotiating

Handling objections

Handling counter-offers

Salary negotiations

Technical candidate triggers

• Site Map
• Training
• Products
• Schedule/Enroll
• TechConnections
• Recruiting Links
• Blog
• Company