Hiring Confidential: Is There A Secret To Landing The Right IT Guy?

There’s an IT position to be filled, and with recruitment being an elaborate, expensive exercise, you wouldn’t want to end up with a costly hiring mistake. Which steps can you take to ensure that you identify the right candidate?

Looking For Mr Right

Like in any courtship, most potential suitors will turn up on the first date, appearing equally impressive with their sparkling CVs and dazzling work experience. We have also heard all the horror stories about hiring the "perfect" candidate, only to discover a less-than-perfect on-the-job reality. Moreover, IT is also a highly specialised vocation which offers truth in the notion, "you have to be in it to know it". For a non-technical hiring manager who is trying to uncover bona fide candidate qualities amongst the routine chocolates and roses or textbook model resumes, this will be an uphill task, simply because he or she does not have the necessary tech experience or background to arrive at a calculated decision. Moreover, with the IT function intricately intertwined with the business side of things within the organisation, hiring the wrong IT guy for the job may render serious impact on your organisation. You may be able to afford a bad ex, but your business can't - place a bet on the wrong guy and you may suffer damages far greater than just to your emotional bottomline.

In this article, learn how you can ensure that your next IT hire will be the right guy for the job.

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