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Viral TikTok Layoff Videos: What You Need to Know

So, you’ve seen or heard about these viral TikTok layoff videos, but you’re unsure how concerned you should be? Is it simply a temporary, addictive-to-watch trend that will blow over? A Gen-Z thing that you don’t need to concern yourself with? Or, is it representative of a deeper, transformative work problem that you need to pay attention to? In this article, read about what you can learn from this content, and how it should impact your company’s HR practices.

Hiring Developers

5 Things You Can Do in Interviews to Make Your Candidates Love You

Do you remember the best interview you ever had? Two stand out the most to me—the first with my previous employer, One Inc., and the second with my current role at CoderPad. They both had these in common: While these things stand out to me, there are traits that all interview processes share that make for a great candidate experience—things like honesty, transparency, and open communication. While some job lures are out of your control – a high salary, 4-day work week, unlimited PTO, etc., you still have it in your power to integrate beneficial traits into your own recruitment processes so that you make accepting a job with your company a whole lot easier.

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5 Ice Breakers to Start the Conversation With Hiring Managers

At the heart of every impactful hire is a meaningful dialogue with a hiring manager – but what does it take to turn a routine check-in with a software engineering hiring manager into a strategic partnership? Engaging with software engineering hiring managers effectively can set a positive tone for the recruitment process and help uncover valuable insights about what they’re looking for in candidates. However, establishing an effective recruitment relationship with your hiring managers goes beyond simply gathering requirements for your job ad.

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8 Steps Recruiters Can Take to Instill Inclusivity in Tech Interviews

Although tech recruiters are rarely the ones conducting coding interviews, they play an important part in setting them up—and no, I don’t mean scheduling. As TA professionals, you have the power to create an inclusive interview environment for your interviewers and interviewees. Want to know how? This guide will help you. What is “inclusive interviewing”? Inclusive interviewing practices aim to provide fair and equal opportunities to all candidates, in an attempt to combat recruitment bias and any form of discrimination.

Engineering Management

10+ Steps, Tools and Resources to Create a First-class Upskilling Culture

“Upskilling, what the hell is that?!” If you’re like our unidentified friend in the quote above, here’s the TL;DR (Too Long, Didn’t Read if you don’t know what that is too) from the world’s most famous AI chatbot : Upskilling refers to the process of learning new skills or enhancing existing ones. It’s a way for individuals to improve their employability and stay relevant in the ever-changing job market. Upskilling can involve formal education, training programs, online courses, workshops, or even self-directed learning.

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CoderPad March Releases

Lots of exciting news at CoderPad this month! Keep reading to learn about our SOC2 compliance, how you can create better questions faster & apply for early access to betas like webcam proctoring and interview transcription. CoderPad Screen updates Insights into your custom questions Custom questions are a highly effective way to assess the skills most important to your team. Now with more granular visibility into question performance (such as success rate and if candidates run out of time), you can better gauge if your questions are too complex or too easy and fine-tune them to be even more effective.

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These 9 Red Flags Are Scaring Away Candidates During Interviews

There’s no shortage of advice for candidates on what they should avoid in an interview—don’t wear street clothes, don’t be rude, don’t don’t. You know the red flags that warn you when a candidate might not fit your team. But what about you, the interviewer? As the gatekeeper who ensures that only the most qualified candidates make it onto your team, how you act in an interview is very important. 53% of job seekers have had at least one negative experience in the hiring process in the past 12 months. And 52% of job seekers had declined a job offer due to poor experience.

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Best Platforms for Remote Interviews

The modern employment landscape has evolved in leaps and bounds, with remote work and virtual interviews now becoming the norm. Organizations worldwide are actively seeking platforms to help them conduct remote interviews without compromising on anything that traditional face-to-face interviews bring to the table. But what are the best platforms to use for remote interviews? And how can we augment the interview experience when hiring for specific skills, such as development skills?

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SOC2 and CoderPad’s Ongoing Commitment to Security

At CoderPad, part of the responsibility that comes along with being the industry leader in skills-based hiring is taking candidate and customer data security very seriously. We want all current and prospective customers to be assured that their employee data and any other custom data they bring into CoderPad is strongly secured at all times. We also want all candidates who use our platform to have the same assurance that their privacy and the data they bring into the platform is also strongly secured at all times.

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