Datapath Search Corporation

10/12/2021

Interesting read in these unusual times!

10/06/2021

https://npaworldwide.com/blog/2021/09/30/global-hiring-plans-rebounding-to-pre-pandemic-levels/

According to the latest Manpower Employment Outlook Survey, global hiring plans are expected to be strong during the upcoming quarter.

03/25/2020

https://goingconcern.com/tips-for-working-from-home-from-experts-in-the-no-pants-lifestyle/

Hi there, Going Concern faithful. How is everyone? Hanging in there? I hope so. So look. Bramwell and I realized the other day that you guys new to regular work from home (WFH) — which is pretty much most of you — might need some tips on how to stay sane. Not that either of …

12/12/2018

Wishing all our friends a wonderful and safe holiday season!

07/12/2018

Not surprising and truly an issue. But candidates have to remember that recruiters and staffing professionals ave long 'elephant' memories!

According to a recent LinkedIn article​, "People are 'ghosting' at work and it's driving companies crazy"

05/23/2018

Want to get your money's worth for that $300K four year degree?

Murray Webb had been a lackluster student more interested in sports than schoolwork while attending a small Virginia college. Then he transferred to Kennesaw State University in suburban Atlanta to pursue a master’s degree in applied statistics and landed four job offers upon graduation. Webb, 33,...

05/08/2018

Really accurate article about our current job market...

There are four chronic problems in a job market that looks strong on the surface.

03/21/2018

Very humbled & grateful to be selected as one of the 250 Best Executive Recruiting Firms by Forbes in 2018

10/02/2017

Between 2008 and 2015, ageism was the subject of 226 official complaints filed against tech companies in Silicon Valley, outpacing both complaints against gender and racial discrimination. To get a better understanding of the existing issues within the tech workforce, Visier compiled data from 330,000 U.S. employees from 43 large U.S. companies. Overall, the study found that while there is ageism occurring in hiring practices, older workers are more highly valued in terms of performance once hired.

Here's a deeper dive into the findings:

Newly hired older tech workers are more likely to be rated high performers. Tech managers who are older than 40 are more likely to receive a top performer rating. The opposite is true outside of tech: The older you get, the less likely you are to be rated a top performer. Visier Chief Strategy Officer Dave Weisbeck explains that as employees become more senior, their ratings tend to drop as their responsibilities grow and their managers expect more from them. So what's going on here? It could be that maturity and experience in the workplace are more highly valued due to its scarcity: Tech workers are on average five years younger than their non-tech peers. But they have a much harder time getting the job in the first place. Here's the rub: Despite the "top performer" data, tech workers between 34 to 51 (Gen Xers) are being hired 33% less than the available talent in the marketplace. Meanwhile, tech workers between 20 to 33 (millennials) are being hired nearly 50% more than their workforce representation.

Weisbeck argues that there is a disconnect between the cost to acquire a younger or older candidate and the resulting value they bring to the company. Younger employees are generally cheaper to recruit, but they also tend to resign at a much higher rate than their older peers. With the cost of replacing an existing knowledge worker totaling as much as 2x their total salary, Weisbeck says tech employers need to rethink their hiring formulas.

Lyons, who chronicled his time as a new tech worker at age 52, says there are other savings tech companies are overlooking: Older workers are ambivalent about office perks. "Most people my age [in tech] are likely happy to take the same pay that a 35-year-old gets, they just don't want it held against them that they are 55," he said. "But also, we don't need ping-pong tables, espresso machines or tequila tasting seminars. Really all we want is a job with a decent salary, stability and health benefits."

Older workers move up faster, thanks to top reviews, but don't always get paid more. Compared with their peers in non-tech industries, tech workers move up the corporate ladder faster: The average age of a manager in tech is 42 compared with 47 elsewhere. That said, senior titles don't always generate bigger raises. Tech workers between the ages of 26 and 28 receive the highest promotion rates, and then those decrease continuously as employees age.

So are tech companies asking for too much? Lyons says there are two ways you can look at these findings: From the perspective of the employer and the perspective of a prospective older employee. A tech employer might see the value � in dollars and culture � in hiring older. But it should also be an eye-opener for older workers. Tech � especially tech startups � often require being surrounded by a company-first lifestyle.

"Younger workers are more inclined to make their work their social life," he says. "But when you're older and you have a family, you are less likely to build your life around a company."

09/19/2017

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03/29/2017

02/06/2017

For those of you wondering if Al Gore was right, the actual founding of the internet can be found in the pages of the Bible. Enjoy!

"In ancient Israel, it came to pass that a trader by the name of Abraham Com did take unto himself a healthy young wife by the name of Dorothy. And Dot Com was a comely woman, large of breast, broad of shoulder and long of leg. Indeed,
she was often called Amazon Dot Com.

And she said unto Abraham, her husband, "Why dost thou travel so far from town to town with thy goods when thou canst trade without ever leaving thy tent?"

And Abraham did look at her as though she were several saddle bags short of a camel load, but simply said, "How, dear?"

And Dot replied, "I will place drums in all the towns and drums in between to send
messages saying what you have for sale, and they will reply telling you who hath the best price. The sale can be made on the drums and delivery made by Uriah's Pony Stable (UPS)."

Abraham thought long and decided he would let Dot have her way with the drums. And the drums rang out and were an immediate success. Abraham sold all the goods he had at the top price, without ever having to move from his tent.

To prevent neighboring countries from overhearing what the drums were saying,
Dot devised a system that only she and the drummers knew. It was known as
Must Send Drum Over Sound (MSDOS), and she also developed a language to transmit ideas and pictures - Hebrew to the People (HTTP).

And the young men did take to Dot Com's trading as doth the greedy horsefly take to camel dung. They were called Nomadic Ecclesiastical Rich Dominican Sybarites, or NERDS. And lo, the land was so feverish with joy at the new riches and the deafening sound of drums that no one noticed that the real riches were going to that enterprising drum dealer, Brother William of Gates, who bought off every drum maker in the land. Indeed he did insist on drums to be made that would work only with Brother Gates' drum heads and drumsticks.

And Dot did say, "Oh, Abraham, what we have started is being taken over by others." And Abraham looked out over the Bay of Ezekiel, or eBay as it came to be known. He said, "We need a name that reflects what we are."

And Dot replied, "Young Ambitious Hebrew Owner Operators." "YAHOO," said Abraham. And because it was Dot's idea, they named it YAHOO Dot Com.

Abraham's cousin, Joshua, being the young Gregarious Energetic Educated Kid (GEEK) that he was, soon started using Dot's drums to locate things around the countryside.

It soon became known as God's Own Official Guide to Locating Everything (GOOGLE)."

That is how it all began. And that's the truth.

We would not make up this stuff!