For as long as I have been paying attention to the news, I’ve been hearing about a projected Baby Boomer retirement crisis. Which crisis? It depends on your point of […]
For as long as I have been paying attention to the news, I’ve been hearing about a projected Baby Boomer retirement crisis. Which crisis? It depends on your point of […]
When someone checks in with me after having completed their interview, my guess is as good as anyone’s whether they will be the candidate of choice or not…except when I […]
This is Stout's monthly curated digest of hiring and employment news. Sign up to receive it each month in your email inbox. An estimated 4.5 million workers quit or changed […]
Ah for the good old days when you hired typists by sitting them down at a typewriter and giving them a typing test. 50 words per minute and no mistakes? […]
What do you think about the following responses to the interview question, "So…why do you want to work here?" "I heard the benefits here are really great." "You guys are […]
I've been a web developer for a long time, and one concept that always comes up is turning HTML into a PDF. It's a pretty natural request; HTML is a […]
If you think about it, in any state that has passed at-will employment laws, a company can fire an employee at any time for any reason. At will means that employees […]
Here at Stout we screen a lot of technical candidates. Our first step is to filter the resumes. (We have little need for glass window installers despite the fact that […]
They say that showing up is half the battle. I’m not sure who originally said that. A Google search will attribute the quote to everyone from Woody Allen to Stephen […]
When it comes to hiring or promoting a software engineer, communication skills can be used as the tie-breaker between two equally talented people. But that term—communication skills—is so broad that […]