In today’s world of increasing social media outlets, it is becoming more and more difficult for job seekers to make it past the initial interview process. What used to be a standard face-to-face interview with questions of work history, qualifications, and career goals, has turned into a full blown online detective case. Employers are now [...]

This is a topic that we, along with many others, have covered on our blog more than once before. Despite the number of times we have discussed the impact of social media profiles on an individual’s ability to get hired, candidates seem to make the same mistakes over and over again. One of the biggest [...]

In 2009, my wife and I decided that we’d like to once again live in Europe and give our two daughters an experience of a lifetime. We moved to a small village in France where we lived for two years. As a former Microsoft Program Manager, my hope was to find work in the software industry [...]

The UDig Blog is happy to once again have Kyle Lagunas share one of his recent blog posts… Fact: most employees occasionally use social media tools at work for personal reasons, anyway. Unsurprisingly, business leaders want guidelines in place for regulating employee use of social media outlets–and protecting against misuse–on personal and company accounts alike. Many [...]

I nailed the technical interview except for the last question the hiring manager asked. You have finally settled down and stopped sweating after forty-five minutes of technical questions from a three person interview team. They haven’t thrown a curveball you couldn’t catch and you can tell the interview is about to wrap up. The hiring [...]

The abundance of candidates all competing for the same positions makes it essential to market yourself and promote your personal brand. I’m not talking about taking out an ad in the local paper and listing the top five reasons why someone should hire you. I’m talking about using the tools readily available to you to aid in [...]

My colleagues and I have been going back and forth over the past few months on whether or not we think Facebook is or can be a useful job/candidate search tool. With social media exploding over the last few years with Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, there have been multiple arguments in favor of and against [...]

Check out our latest LinkedIn poll…we’d love to get your point of view. Rob Havey, UDig Director of Recruiting

At UDig we have a list of guiding principles that govern how we operate – philosophies that demonstrate how we feel candidates and clients should be treated. These are all just words on paper unless the people we hire embrace the way we do business. We thought we’d use our blog to spotlight some of [...]

This is a topic we’ve addressed on the UDig Blog before, but as a Technical Recruiter I still see candidates who haven’t researched their own image on social media, search engines, etc. A recent survey indicates that that 95% of hiring managers use social media as a tool to screen potential candidates. This survey also shows [...]