One of the designers behind Pinterest, the third most popular social networking site, is moving on in hopes of creating the next big e-commerce site. Nineteen year old Sahil Lavingia’s latest design, Gumroad, seems to have the same general approach as Pinterest – an online community for everyone that satisfies a need you didn’t realize you [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

We’re continuing our UDig Brain Dig series, where we pick our consultants’ brains to learn more about their profession and industry. We are featuring Todd, Senior Telecommunications Engineer at a global packaging solutions company based in Richmond. Todd talks with us about current state of call center technologies and environments… You’ve been involved in call [...]

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 [...]

UDig is happy to have Kyle Lagunas, an HR Market Analyst with Software Advice, as our guest blogger once again. Kyle recently published an article that explores two hot topics in the dynamic world of recruiting: social media and mobile technology. As a technology staffing firm, two topics close to our hearts are recruiting and [...]

As a Technical Recruiter, I am always looking for more efficient ways to source candidates and stay in touch with current consultants. I stumbled upon this interesting article on www.ERE.net. It was written by Todd Raphael and compiles a helpful list of resources for recruiters but most are applicable to many jobs. This list combines a number [...]