Volume 60 — July 2007  
In This Issue:
Maximizing Your Recruiting ROI
How to Write a Great Job Description
Attract Reluctant Candidates by Listing Your Selling Points

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Maximizing Your Recruiting ROI

Get insider tips on tech recruiting from expert John Vlastelica, one of the top IT recruiters in the U.S. In this article, John gives practical techniques for:
  • Focusing your direct sourcing efforts on the right kind of targets
  • Applying the "Low Hanging Fruit" concept to finding candidates
  • Preparing hiring managers for conversations with passive candidates to get them excited about the position
  • Making direct sourcing effective — in just a couple of hours a week

How to Write a Great Job Description

Telling the world how great your company is and demanding a specific set of tech skills are not effective ways to attract candidates in a tight labor market. Use Dice's How to Write a Great Job Description guide to increase the response rate and quality of applicants to your job postings.

Included are five samples of effective job postings that use proven marketing tactics for attracting top tech professionals.


Attract Reluctant Candidates by Listing Your Selling Points

Are you struggling to get enough high-quality applicants for your job openings? The culprit may be how you are selling your job opportunities. A quick scan of job postings and corporate career sites reveals that organizations rely on ordinary, bland recruiting materials and dull position descriptions to attract talent.

Here are tips on how to compile a list of selling points your company has to offer.



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