I’ve recently joined a new project with a new Client, but I’m still getting many calls from recruiters. Some callers are satisfied with an answer “No, thanks. I’m not available already”, others want to engage in conversation as if I’d still be looking. And I proceed, sometimes, which is to a mutual benefit. We get [...]

Are you a testing professional? Are you an active community member and contributor? Do you have your own blog dedicated to software testing? And you are still not certified? That’s a shame, really. First of all, word “certification” is cool. It has a magic, brain-powdering effect on recruiters. It is also loved by keyword search [...]

I had a challenge of building a new QA team from scratch. At that time I just joined, and was learning about our products, who our target demographics are and how the release process works, etc. I needed to find the right testers who would thrive in our environment. This company knows that for a [...]

Yes, yes, I know that recruiters are telling about it all the time: they’re screening a resume in 20 seconds. I also know from own experience that they often “sort out” exemplars that stand out of the crowd in a bright way. No surprise, then, that test managers take ownership of the process. They do [...]

” – I want a homogenized, emulgated, sweetened milky, fatty, lemon flavoured mass, frozen with air bubbles in it.” – “Excuse me?” – “An ice-cream, please.” As we looked at the problem here, having the power of hiring does not mean automatically getting candidates that you want. And the more senior level professionals are required [...]

There are such terms in real estate: “buyer’s market”, “seller’s market”. In the nutshell, they mean which side has more advantages negotiating a deal. Believe it or not, there is a similar term in hiring – “employer’s market”. The meaning appears to be based on the “number of jobs” to “number of job applications” ratio.  When [...]