Want to change the ratio and increase the numbers of women in your tech department? Easy. If I had a nickel for every time a hiring manager or human resources professional said to me that they’d LOVE to see female candidates for their open tech requirement, I’d be rich. While specifically seeking out women vs men for positions may technically be a no-no in the HR world, there have been more and more calls for gender and racial diversity within tech departments over the past d

Let me introduce you to the new Woman in Tech. She never thought she’d be here. She doesn’t think of herself as technical. When her friends from college look at her cross-eyed and say, “I didn’t know you were into computers.” She says she isn’t. She doesn’t know how to code. If you showed it to her, she wouldn’t know what she was looking at. What she does know are the concepts. She understands the gap between digital and industry. She understands the gap between digital and m

Hiring and recruiting for tech talent when you have no technical background can be scary. How do you ask the right questions? How do you feel confident that you’re getting the right answers? How do you figure out if your candidate has the right skill set when you don’t really understand what it is he or she does? Understanding that many of our clients are in the same boat, we’ve put together a few tips for hiring tech talent when you’re a recruiter who is not technical. Try t

The biggest secret of the tech world is that a huge percentage of people who work in the tech industry started out knowing nothing. They didn’t go to MIT, they didn’t get a degree in computer science and they still don’t know how to code. That’s because the high tech industry needs people to help their business run, not just create their product or service offering. Even New York State Comptroller, Thomas D. Napoli, stated this in his April report on New York City’s growing h

The New York Times published an article last week, in advance of Valentine’s Day, called “Love in the Time of Twitter” by Natasha Singer. The article references a "new research effort by two computer scientists who exempted how the soon-to-be-married used Twitter”. That study purports to "examine Twitter as a platform for sharing updates about major life events, and in particular, we focus on the major life event of engagement. Engagement is interesting because it is an event