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How to Hire in 2020
- 02/17/2020
- Posted by: Matthew Cooke
- Category: Consulting, Technology Hiring, Technology Recruiting
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Hiring employees in 2020 can be a daunting task. A modern workforce demands an agile strategy and a level of investment that many businesses struggle to implement. Unemployment in many U.S. cities—particularly West Coast tech meccas like Seattle and the Bay Area—is historically low and has been for some time, which means workers can be
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Job Trends and Employment Strategies for 2020
- 01/15/2020
- Posted by: Matthew Cooke
- Category: Consulting, Job Hunting, New Job, Technology Hiring, Technology Recruiting
Welcome to the new year! The period between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day has important implications for job candidates as businesses work out their budgets and build roadmaps for projects to be tackled in the first half of the impending year. Now that the Christmas tree has been taken out to compost and those businesses
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The Top 6 Tech Hiring Trends for Seattle in 2020
- 12/06/2019
- Posted by: admin dev
- Category: Consulting, Technology Hiring, Technology Recruiting
As 2019 draws to a close, we at WideNet Consulting are happy to report that the year has been marked by solid, stable growth in tech hiring throughout the greater Seattle region, and we anticipate this continuing into 2020. Based on our own client interactions and engagements, here are some of the most important tech
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The Importance of a Family-Friendly Workplace
- 11/05/2019
- Posted by: admin dev
- Category: Company Culture, Family Friendly, Technology Hiring, Technology Recruiting
As businesses grow, the need to attract a broader spectrum of workers increases. Sometimes that means a company has to take a deep look at its culture and decide whether it’s inclusive enough to foster that growth. It can be scary terrain to navigate, particularly with foundational leadership who naturally tend to credit the culture
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Job Hunt Nightmares
- 10/02/2019
- Posted by: admin dev
- Category: Job Hunting, Job Tips, New Job, Resumes
The Halloween season brings with it all manner of ghastly ghouls and creepy goblins, but none of them compare to the host of scary mistakes you can make in your job search. Bad resume layouts and misspellings that make you look careless. Foolish comments during interviews that torpedo your candidacy. Ridiculous questions that throw you
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How to Manage Your Brand Online
- 09/11/2019
- Posted by: admin dev
- Category: Brand, Consulting, Online Reputation, Technology Recruiting
Whether you run a small business or a Fortune 500 company, brand is massively important. Just as you look for integrity and a good reputation in your candidates, they consult online resources and their own networks to assess your standing, and will very likely look elsewhere if they find something they don’t like. Studies show,
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The 5 Steps We Take to Deliver the Best Possible Talent
- 08/07/2019
- Posted by: admin dev
- Category: Consulting, Innovation, Service Model, Talent, Technology Hiring, Technology Recruiting
When we launched our company in 2009, we chose the name WideNet Consulting because it was the perfect summation of our approach to technology consulting and recruitment: We cast the widest net possible to help match our clients with the very best consultants and candidates, in a way that’s strategic, efficient and custom-tailored. That approach
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How to Nail Your First Job Post-Graduation
- 06/25/2019
- Posted by: admin dev
- Category: Job Tips, New Job
After years of hard work and expense, you’ve graduated from college and found your way into your first “real” job. Congratulations! Today’s economy for young people can be extremely challenging, so take a moment and savor your accomplishment. But only a moment. You’re now in a new, bigger world with an entirely different set of
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Our Service Model: Supporting a Full Range of Technology Hiring Needs
- 06/06/2019
- Posted by: admin dev
- Category: Consulting, Service Model, Technology Recruiting
No successful company adopts a cookie-cutter approach to its own technology operations. From data to infrastructure, there’s simply too much at stake to run with off-the-shelf solutions that may not fit the company’s business needs. The same is true for hiring. As the Pacific Northwest’s technology staffing and consulting leader, WideNet takes a customized service
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The Power of Diversifying Clients and Advancing Careers
- 05/09/2019
- Posted by: admin dev
- Category: Business plans, Client Portfolio, Consulting
A pair of lessons for business success, based on our own client experiences One of the most important things we’ve learned as a B2B service provider is that maintaining a diverse client portfolio is an effective way to ensure long-term success. This idea was explored in an article from The Telegraph, in which a business