Career Watch: The scoop on a new job board

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Q&A

Colleen Haviland The director and founder of Ready to Hire explains how the online job board differentiates itself.

What is Ready to Hire's business model? Ready to Hire is similar to other online job boards, but we have gone a step further. At Ready to Hire, a prescreening process is implemented that ensures that every potential hire we offer to our clients is actually qualified for the positions they're looking to fill. To put it simply, job candidates in our database have to apply and be approved to even be listed with Ready to Hire.

How rigorous is the qualification process? Ready to Hire acts as the first screening call that will capture tangible information to see a candidate's qualifications. Every candidate for our database must speak to one of our representatives before being included. If we can't capture 100% of the important candidate data that employers need to know, the candidate is not included in our database. And even after we first insert candidates into the database, Ready to Hire follows up with them every 45 days to ensure that information is kept current and accurate.

Colleen Haviland

What CIOs Want: Skills, Skills and Skills

CIOs were asked: Of the following staffing issues within the IT department, which do you consider to be your greatest challenge as a CIO?

• Finding skilled technology professionals: 24%
• Providing staffers with adequate professional development resources to keep skills current: 23%
• Keeping employees productive: 17%
• Dealing with personality conflicts among employees: 11%
• Developing defined career paths for IT staff members: 10%
• Other: 5%
• None/don't know: 10%

Rose-Colored Retirement

Active workers expect personal savings to be among their largest sources of income in retirement. Those already retired are more likely to cite Social Security.