Permanently Virtual: Is Your Firm Ready For This?
Remember when this forced working from home was going to last a few days? Then a few weeks? Then maybe just a month or two? All those markers have been left far behind, haven't they? If someone were to tell you, in February of 2020, that a large percentage of ...
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2021: The Future of Recruitment is Quality, Not Quantity
We’ll let you in on some industry insight: When someone asks a recruiter how their business is doing, the answer is often a more complicated one than you might expect. You see, if you ask about one’s recruitment business, you’re really asking, “How many people have you placed?” ...
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Who is Winning the Battle of The Bandwidth
Amid a terrible and tragic pandemic, we have to look for good news anywhere we can get it as that’s a sign that we will return to normal and learn how to do things more wisely from this experience. One of those signs? There’s strong evidence that certain companies are ...
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What is GPT-3? Is It A True Game Changer For Technology?
What if you’re a programmer who has been writing code in Python and one day, you don’t need the program anymore? That’s right. All you need to do now is deliver sample data into a machine, get the output type you want and analyze it. In essence, you become a ...
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What if Working from Home Becomes the Rule and Not the Exception?
What both of these books have in common is a very optimistic view of where we are – a very rare thing, indeed. It may feel hard to relate to such optimism at this moment. Nonetheless, these authors believe that overall trends will be very positive and on a large ...
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2020’s Silver Lining: How We Work May Be Evolving For The Better
If we talk about how the world is changing in relation to the way we work and communicate, it’s vital that we consider the convergence of three significant developments: 1) For many of our jobs, there is a true ability to do that job remotely. People can be much more ...
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The State Of Hiring: 4 Insights To Plan Ahead In Unpredictable Times
We’re obviously in a tumultuous time with a lot of different changes. Still, even if your company isn’t in a rush at present to fill the next significant potential role, you can take advantage of the time to think about smart strategies for planning. Here are four insights we’re seeing ...
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4 Ways To Find Your Stability In A Redefined World
The reality of the world we’re currently living in is that our industry is continuing to be redefined. It’s true for recruitment. It’s also certainly true for the industries our firm serves, such as technology, financial trading and management consulting ...
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What Does the Resume of the Future Look Like
We always hear debates about whether or not resumes will even matter in the future but I prefer to look at The Resume of the Future differently: Resumes as we know them may drastically change and if we’re going to operate in a world relevant to machine learning, then candidates, ...
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Might Coding Academies Level The Candidate Playing Field?
The machine learning space represents a fast-moving market in light of a number of companies trying to upgrade their technology. New technologies are moving at a much quicker pace than the educational system training people in those new technologies.The perfect example of this is a platform called React, which was ...
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The Software Developer Evolution Is Upon Us
Starting this year and beyond, one trend we will see more of is that companies will need to make membership on their platform more valuable over time. Case in point: How many more people can join Facebook? It has very likely hit its peak in the growth department. So now, ...
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AI As Hiring Manager: Can It Tell You Which Candidate Will Thrive?
There was a big story recently in the Wall Street Journal talking about a company that has interviewed over a million candidates via video on behalf of companies interested in hiring, such as Hyatt Hotel and Goldman Sachs. The company raised $95 million in one round of funding alone. The ...
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Are You Truly “Fully Prepared” To Win The Job Race?
You’re about to go into a big interview with a prestigious firm and you feel like you’ve fully prepared for this moment. But…do you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you are as prepared as you could be? What does “fully prepared” truly mean to you? Consider this: ...
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Are We Really In The “Golden Age” Of Artificial Intelligence?
Last month, I was reading an article in Forbes in which the author claimed that the golden age of Artificial Intelligence (AI) was upon us, confirmed by a survey of more than 1,000 executives. Adoption of AI is up 72% this year compared to 48% last year! 93% of executives ...
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Bigger Waves Of Data, Bigger Platform For Tech Talent To Shine
There’s plenty of talk about how “smart” machine learning systems are. The problem with these systems is that they're really narrow – and let me explain what I mean by that term. Let’s take a healthcare environment. With today’s machine learning systems applied in healthcare, if you have just the ...
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Is Tech Company Compliance Hurting Small Firms More Than Large Firms?
A certain company you’ve probably heard of called Facebook was fined $5 billion recently and it’s understandably causing a great amount of chatter across the country. Is the hammer going to drop on big companies in the tech space now that it came down on Facebook? The answer may surprise ...
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With New Technologies, What Makes A True Expert?
The word “expert,” is one that’s used by many but it’s hard to say that any of us can definitively agree on what does and does not make an expert. The closest I’ve heard is the definition from Malcolm Gladwell: It takes 10,000 hours of learning to become an expert ...
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Two Underrated And Big Opportunities For Interview Success
At our firm, we have a real process called “The Talman Way” that’s fairly extensive but nonetheless vital to the ideal fit between candidate and client we’re striving to achieve. When a technical candidate has reached a certain point later in that process, they’ve often taken a series of tests ...
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The Real Key To Getting A Job Working With AI
Without question, one of the most popular topics in our business right now is how to get a job working with artificial intelligence / machine learning. At one level, we have clients that want cutting-edge, top-of-the-line researchers. Fair enough. However, there is one issue we’ve seen arise in lot of ...
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AI Graduating Beyond “Side Project’ And Moving Up The Priority List
While there has been an issue with how expensive it is to build machine learning systems and “feed” them, there’s good news to be had in that we foresee the cost of building these systems and feeding them continually going down. And as that happens, their usefulness and applicability is ...
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Small H1B Visa Change May Mean Big Help For Those With Advanced Degrees
As we’ve written a few times on the challenging, ever-evolving H1B Visa process for employers and international candidates, a minor but interesting change to the H1B Visa program has occurred that’s worthy of you to be aware of if you hire people from that program. There are two types of ...
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Non-Compete? No Problem. Maximize Your Time Between Jobs.
As we’re frequently dealing with senior people in high-frequency trading shops and hedge funds, it’s not uncommon to see many of them face a non-compete situation that can last as long as 18 months. This person may be privy to a process that is material to generating revenue, so a ...
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Readying Your Company For A Machine Learning Talent Pipeline
For a very long time, we've heard about shortages of people with specific skills but most of those skills in question tend to be on the newer side of the spectrum. For example, if you listen to people at Google and Amazon, they're in dire need for machine learning talent ...
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How Candidates Can Keep Their Learning Curve Ahead Of Accelerating Technology
In the last 18 months, with a variety of tech companies facing a solid amount of turnover – as in people leaving after only a year or two – you’d imagine that many candidates don’t need to put a whole lot of work into the entire interviewing process. They’d just ...
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Prepping Your Skills For The Machine Learning Revolution
In one of our recent posts, we wrote about the coming revolution in machine learning that candidates have to prepare themselves for. In truth, we’ve heard a lot of talk about it for several years now, but we still haven’t seen a lot of activity utilizing machine learning in many ...
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“Home Grown” Talent Versus Importing It
Many times, we’re preconditioned to think of hiring for talent that’s right in our own backyard. It’s convenient and let’s face it – there’s less to consider in the way of relocation expenses if it’s local and “home grown.” However, if we’re going to always be looking not only for ...
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Building Stronger Tech Worker Relationships In A New Era Of Activism
Recently, Google had a massive walk-out – about 20,000 employees – over its handling of cases of sexual harassment and misconduct. It’s part of a shift we’re seeing in tech environments in what some are branding, “tech worker activism.” Employees in the tech space seem louder than ever, essentially saying, ...
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Talman Talks Tech Predictions For 2019
Before I get started about what I foresee in the tech space for the coming year, let me share my favorite line about predictions, from Niels Bohr: “Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.” So while you may take some of these predictions with a grain of ...
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Why Did Amazon Really Pass Over Chicago For HQ2?
When Amazon chose the markets of New York and northern Virginia for its HQ2 company headquarters, a number of cities on the short list asked the same question: “Why not us?” Based on the chatter around town, Chicago was no different in asking this, especially since it appeared at one ...
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Women In Technology: The Deeper Problem Beyond Screening Too Many Candidates Out
Until recently, Amazon had an AI-based tool to screen candidates that probably sounded really good at first on paper. In fact, it seemed like the Holy Grail: You give the tool 100 resumes, it helps screen for the top candidates and, wow, look at all the time we’ve saved! Right? ...
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Lessons From Sears: The Peril Of Maintaining Status Quo Technology
Someone recently came into my office with a background in database management for the financial industry over many years. He asked, “I’m not seeing a lot of needs that entail the use of Oracle products…why is that?” My answer, basically, was that a heavy background in Oracle didn’t matter because ...
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From Amazon To Google: West Coast Outposts May Shift Chicago’s Hiring Strategies
A few months ago, Facebook signed a new lease in the Loop comprising a whopping 263,000 square feet – a space that many speculate can hold 2,000 employees or more. Around the same time, we learned that Google was planning on adding 100,000 square feet of office space. Pinterest leased ...
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Winning “The Lottery” On Your Own Terms
In our last post, we talked about how some people are drawn to the idea of making it big in an expensive area like New York or San Francisco while working for one of the top companies in the tech space. We often refer to this idea as “winning the ...
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Picturing The Movie Version Of Your Career
I’ve written before about the concept of “The Lottery” as it pertains to certain people who want to have it all in their careers. What’s winning the lottery to them? Living in a big house in a highly desirable location like San Francisco or New York with a wide range ...
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Why Silicon Valley Is Looking Hard At Chicago For Expansion
I was reading a fascinating story in the Wall Street Journal focusing on a very large software-specific private equity firm that has a unique strategy – when they buy a company that happens to be based in a high cost area, they subsequently try to diversify the geographic location of ...
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Average Job Tenure Is Shrinking But There’s A Hiring Strategy For That
If there’s one observation that can be made in regard to the average job tenure at a company, it’s that these days, people generally don’t stay in one place for very long. By now, the assumption is made by many hiring managers at tech companies that within two or three ...
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Picking Winners In Tech’s Next Stage And Building A Career Around One
There’s a school of thought among some in the technological space that as advanced as we humans have become at coding, code generated by machines is getting better all the time. Still, the future lies with people who can leverage the code that machines are generating for us. We still have such ...
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