Pinterest – social media portal for recruiting?
Is communicating via Pinterest a valid outlet for business-driven social media (in particular, recruiting)? Yes, says one in the know, Melanie Burger, a Pinterest-ed professional who does social media...
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7 Things to Convey in Every Job Interview
How to make every interview your best: The top 7 things candidates should express during a job interview It’s ‘go’ time. You mastered the perfect resume and have won the attention of recruiters and...
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6 Tips For Serious Job Seekers
6 Things Everyone Candidate Should Know-Advice for an effective job search and things to avoid during your ‘down’ time. Recently a candidate asked me if I could put together some suggestions for job...
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What Makes A Good Recruiter Great!
If you caught last week’s post we pointed out some pretty basic tips for things that job seekers should do to make the most out of every interview. These are things that even the ‘best’ recruiter can’t...
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The End Of An Era? Work-From-Home Benefits Disappear at Yahoo!
Unless you live in a bunker (or were fortunate enough to have been on vacation like I was) you probably heard of the startling new policy implemented by Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer, requiring that all...
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How Can We Fix IT? Addressing The Technology Skills Gap
The world of recruiting is an ever changing complex animal, especially in the world of information technology (IT) – which just so happens to be our focus here at Market Street Talent. One of the most...
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Why Aren’t More Young People Pursuing Careers in Technology?
As with any good scientific analysis, we need to start with a great hypothesis. In this case, we are interested in drilling down some of the reasons why there are so few young minds following the STEM...
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Love Vacation and Your Job
Take control of your career and your life, you deserve it! I love vacation! Then again, who doesn’t? I spent the past two weeks on vacation in beautiful Campobello Island in New Brunswick, Canada,...
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5 Tips For Fostering ‘Follow Through’ At Work
Good ‘follow through’ is more than just a technique for hitting a baseball. Simply put, ‘follow through’ is the act of continuing a plan, project, scheme, or the like, to its completion, however,...
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4 Exercise Goals That Will Improve Your Career
I believe that challenges keep us fresh, keep us feeling alive, and following through to complete the challenges we set for ourselves is essential. Many of us challenge ourselves outside of work all...
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Catching The Big One! Tips for Landing Your Next Great Hire!
Reeling in that great catch isn’t always as easy as one would think. The IT job market is hot, so what is one to do when the candidates are in the driver’s seat? You only have one opportunity to make...
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5 Skills Every Job Requires
Have you ever stopped to wonder why written job descriptions always include ‘requirements’ that seem sort of obvious? Whether you’re looking for a job in software engineering or basket weaving, job...
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Millennial Speak – Communication styles of a New Generation
Tying into our recent blog about generational differences, I came across the following blog on Inc.com that seemed to entirely validate our point – different generations are simply, well, different. It...
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The Gender Wage Gap is real – and we have data to prove it.
One of Market Street Talent’s particular areas of interest lie in gender related equality issues in the technology market, being a certified woman owned business the topic hits close to home for us....
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New Hampshire drivers now Hands-Free.
First off – have you heard the news? As of July 1st 2015, all active drivers in the state of New Hampshire must now operate all of their technology devices totally hands free. That means no touching...
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Windows 10. A satirical love story.
So which statement would you prefer to hear? “The IRS is conducting an audit of your 2015 tax return” Or “Windows Update has begun installing 187 new files. It is 2% complete. Please do not turn off...
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Women as Leaders in Top Technology Startups – the Unicorns of the Business...
Looks like the Huffington Post has been taking cues from Market Street Talent’s Women in Tech Blogs! Of course, we won’t take all the credit of drawing attention to the issue, it’s quite the universal...
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Future Women in Technology, Seacoast Edition
Market Street Talent is proud to have become more active in the field of promoting women in technology, both actively and via social media, and we are happy to report that one of MST’s own, Melissa...
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Got Grit? We do!
Four simple letters combine to make this subtle but powerful word: Grit. First thinking about it, you may recall a but of sand in your shoes, or a little piece of something just not right in your...
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Demystifying “Talent Brand”
I’m sure that by now you’ve heard the phrase ‘talent brand,’ and perhaps you’ve let it sink into the hashtag cloud floating around in your head. It’s a relatively new idea in the concept of company...
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