Posts by Brian Nguyen
How To Make Retention A Part Of Your Hiring Strategy?
Hiring is a major part of a business’ operations. Recruiters and human resource professionals are always on a run to find the most talented professionals for their organization. However, hiring is not the only crucial bit. Retaining the new hires is an equally significant operation. This is something many organizations largely overlook. If you are…
Read More3 Millennial Retention Strategies Every Company Should Follow
Millennials form the largest generation in the workforce today. Not only the largest, they are also the most experienced after Gen X. This fact puts more emphasis on the significance of millennials in a company. While attracting millennials to your organization is a key task, an even bigger task is retaining them. As multiple reports…
Read MoreFind the best recruits for your business with the power of ‘I-You’
If you’ve ever been in the job market, you know about recruiters. And if you know about recruiters, chances are you probably don’t like them. As a new graduate of Software Engineering from the University of California Berkeley, the #2 ranked school in computer science in the United States, I probably received every kind of…
Read MoreReduce Your Email Inbox by 47% With This Tip
As they say curiosity killed the cat and email killed the employee. However, emails are one of the greatest conveniences ever created: we can send our coworkers to-do lists in an instant to make it look like we are busy, communicate with our customer’s overseas while in our pajamas, and tell the whole company what…
Read MoreWhat can Software Engineers Learn from a 3x Olympian?
This past weekend, I had the pleasure of spending time with a past coach, mentor, and 3x Olympian, Tore Gustafsson. From our conversation, I was inspired to write this article in the hope that other software engineers could benefit from this Olympic advice for improving productivity to superhuman levels. Tore recently came back from Rio where…
Read MoreHiring Software Engineers – Use Github to filter candidates
Hiring Software Engineers in 2017 The ability to recruit quality software engineers takes both time and knowledge in order to find the right fit. If you are fortunate enough to have the infrastructure capable to fund co op and internship programs with universities, then your task is a little less daunting. For smaller companies, however,…
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