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What is a Perfect Gig? How does each of us define our
perfect job? How do we navigate through our perfect career? Working for a company in a job that
creatively challenges our skills is the best way for any of us to:
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Advance our careers and knowledge
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Advance the success of our company and
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Enhance the quality of life for ourselves and
our families.
For those of us in the technology space, we hope to find
a job which enables us to learn new skills in hot technology areas. Finding a
job that is perfectly matched to your skills, however, is often--and at
best--an inefficient and frustrating experience.
The recruitment industry - except for very highly paid,
low-volume recruiters -makes matching employees and employers virtually
impossible. Hiring managers and recruiters don't have the data or tools to work
together to ensure that employees and employers are perfectly suited to each
other.
What's missing is
a common language that interprets and matches the words candidates use to
describe their skills with the words companies use to describe their job
requirements.
YOU have to do
the work of breaking down job specifications and resumes into the key
requirements. But it must go further; you must get to the bottom of what the
"must have" requirements are before you can match candidates to jobs and
companies to candidates.
It is particularly hard in the computer and electronics
as well as other engineering-focused industries. I've talked to a lot of people
about this. In fact, the team and I at "My Perfect Gig" have started a company
to address this very question.
So, My Perfect Gig has partnered with CR4 to invest the
time and effort to shine the spotlight on engineering careers and hiring so we
can face the issues related to finding your Perfect Gig. We'll talk about what
skills are most in demand, what tech areas are hot, what regions of the country
are booming or busting, as well as anything else you might be interested in.
Please use the "Comments" below to tell us what career issues you think we
should discuss here.
In the end, we hope to provide our thoughts on the best
practices for you to follow to advance your career and succeed in our
high-technology industry to find your Perfect Gig.
Working in a job, for a company, perfectly suited to
challenge our skills is the best way for any of us to advance our careers and
knowledge, to advance the success of our companies, to advance the progress of
our world. Blair Heavey, CEO of My
Perfect Gig and his team, blog on the best practices for companies to find the
right candidate and for the candidates to find their Perfect Gig.
Find the right Engineering Careers at http://www.myperfectgig.com
Our Knowledge.
Your Move.
W. Blair Heavey
CEO
My Perfect Gig, Inc.
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