Attracting IT graduates to your business : capture the best and brightest IT talent for your company / An Coppens ; cover image by Jarek Blaminsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coppens, An.

Contributor:

Blaminsky, Jarek.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information technology--Job vacancies.

Information technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (53 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Impackt Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Coppens An: An Coppens is the Chief Game Changer at Gamification Nation Ltd, where the vision is to make business and learning more fun and engaging. She is an award winning business coach, learning & development professional, author and speaker. She has worked around Europe with large multinational organisations as well as with entrepreneurs on topics ranging from engagement, leadership to work life balance. She became a TV-expert on business coaching and work life balance for Irish television. With Gamification Nation, An offers consulting services and online learning programs to assist organisations with creating lasting experiences customers remember, by applying game psychology and game design techniques to non-game situations. She was recently ranked in the top 100 gamification consultants and innovators of 2013 with her Twitter alter ego @GamificationNat.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Credits

About the Author

Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: What Do IT Graduates Want?

Who are the Millennials?

Millennials at work

What turns Millennials off?

Summary

Chapter 2: Be Clear on What Your Organization Has to Offer

Your unique selling points

Defining your unique selling points

Online surveys

Testing your unique selling points

What else can you offer?

Company culture

Salary

Benefits

Location

Opportunity and development

Creating a role description

Chapter 3: Creativity Rules in Gaining Graduate Interest

Developing an attractive online presence

Career pages on your website

Your presence on social media

Setting up and running a valuable apprenticeship, internship, or trainee program

Getting the most out of apprenticeships

Getting the most out of internships

Getting the most out of trainees

Organizing a graduate competition or hack-fest

Choosing your problem

Sponsoring student projects

Meeting students in their environment

Chapter 4: Getting to "You're Hired

Time is of the essence

Narrowing down your selection

Creating a shortlist

Telephone screening

The first date

Competency-based interviews

The skills test

Getting to "You're hired!

Conducting a reference check

Making an offer

Negotiating the salary and package

The candidate accepted, now what?

Welcome the new hire

Summary.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 3, 2014).

ISBN:

1-78300-009-0

OCLC:

874179874