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It seems Austin tops a new list every single day: #1 Best Place to Live 2019, according to US News & World Report, #1 Best Job Market in America, according to the Wall Street Journal, and #1 Best Place to Start a Business, according to Inc 5000, just to name a few – and Austin has shown no signs of slowing down. Signifcantly lower cost of living has attracted San Francisco defects and up and coming entrepreneurs alike in recent years, leading to explosive growth in the tech industry and a fruitful job market. To this end, top contender Tulsa, Oklahoma founded Tulsa Innovation Labs in 2020 to develop a strategy for bringing in big tech to the city, bolstering the job market, and making Tulsa a household name for innovation. These attributes, a booming job market, and a harder-to-define level of “cool” have made Austin into the tech scene it is, luring software company FileTrail, which announced plans to relocate the headquarters in 2020, and kept around Austin-based Pushnami, named the #1 Fastest Growing Company in Central Texas.

– maximizing your ROI begins well before the search, and utilizing recruiters are an excellent way to make sure you’re getting the most out of the time and resources you invest in the hiring process. They also bear the burden of filtering through the increased number of ill-qualified candidates – which means when resumes land on your desk, you can be confident they meet the qualifications and focus on interviewing for personality and culture fit. While it may seem counterintuitive, large numbers of applicants actually bog down the hiring process and make hiring gold quality candidates costlier and more difficult. Recruiters’ whole goal is to find the diamonds in the rough, and bring you candidates that are not only qualified and experienced, but a good fit for your team, ensuring you only interview the best of the best, and maximize your ROI when you find the right candidate.

The filtering process is a difficult one in the best of conditions and in the chaos surrounding COVID-19, frenzied job hunting, and more difficult and lengthy interview process, it can be an enormous headache. Tightening AI resume filters may result in top talent falling through the cracks, while sifting through hundreds of unqualified resumes by hand wastes your team’s time and resources. Utilizing a recruiter allows you to take the pressure of vetting talent off your shoulders so you can be confident the resumes that make it to your desk are strong, qualified, and a culture fit. As more candidates hit the job market daily, recruiters’ relationships within the market are stronger than ever, and previously untouchable talent is ready to interview.

Full-time remote employees often train through a dedicated Learning Management System, but for companies with traditional in person hiring and training, implementing a Learning Management System simply for the short term would be costly, time consuming, and inefficient. Whether it’s a 1 hour screen share with a different team member everyday, call shadowing, or even a brief get to know you call, allow new employees to work with as many people as possible. Alongside structured training, this will give different insights into how to do the job, help your trainee get to know team members at a more personal level, and shake up the routine of a training day. An event as simple as a team virtual happy hour or a company wide video chat can be enough to help assuage the alienation of training with a team they’ve