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Helpful Tips for Hiring Better Testers Isaac Howard describes how his experience in hiring staff taught him to interview better and recognize who are the best picks for a standout team of testers. According to Isaac, the best job candidates are driven to learn and capable of adapting to change, two traits crucial to testing. Remember, testing is learning and relearning software every day.
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A Sanity Check for Job Applicants Hiring people is the most important responsibility of any manager. Hire the right person and a team can take off and soar. Hiring the wrong person can tear a functioning team apart. Yet, all too often, managers don't give the hiring process the attention it deserves. Usually we are too overwhelmed by the work that made us want to hire somebody in the first place. In this article, Peter Clark hopes to save you time by offering some tips to help you choose the right people to interview.
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Help Wanted: Hiring a Software Tester With an Agile Attitude What can you do to ensure you hire a tester with an agile attitude? Lisa Crispin explains the approach her team used to find a new tester with both the right skills and the right attitude.
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What to Do When the Right Person Doesn't Come Along Finding just the right technical person remains a challenge. Waiting for just the right person to come along, or hiring someone with inadequate skills, can often result in late or high-defect projects. A project will most likely fail if you have not hired the appropriate staff. Learn when to wait when hiring for a position, and when to change what people will do.
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Johanna Rothman, Rothman Consulting Group, Inc.
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The Need for Speed: Filling the Empty Chair The paper provides an analysis of challenges that engineering and human resources managers face when attempting to recruit new staff. Successful staffing of a software engineering organization in an intensely competitive market is described in terms of the key elements of the staffing process and proven strategies that help to stay ahead of the competition.
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Anntoinette Gurvin, General Dynamics Information Systems
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