Community Spotlight – PDXWIT Black Futures & Black History
In February, the team at PDX Women in Tech hosted a happy hour focused on themes for the month of February: Black Futures && Black History. The event celebrated the accomplishments of Black women in our local community and those that paved the way. Here’s a...
Top 12 Factors in Pricing IT Staffing Services in 2021
You have just been quoted an hourly bill rate from a recruiter at a tech staffing firm and you are wondering: Is this pricing fair? If you would pay $110K for a full time hire, why do they bill you $90-$115 per hour, or even higher? Or — You are a contractor...
How to Secure Technical Talent Despite a Hiring Freeze
How Tech Leaders Can Move Initiatives Forward with Contract Staffing – Even with Budget and Hiring Freezes We’ve been working with a lot of tech leaders who are working at companies that have hiring freezes and budget freezes due to Covid-19. We are seeing that many...
Economic Trends & Planning for the Future
A recent study by ITR Economics predicts a recovery trend for third quarter. The revised forecasts show a severe drop in economic activity through the second quarter of 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. As businesses, individuals, and lawmakers alike respond to...
Managing “Hard to Manage” High Performers
On November 20, 2019, ProFocus hosted our latest Leaders Lunch with Portland-based Software development leaders. John Boone, the President of ProFocus Technology, moderated the roundtable discussion on the topic of Managing “Hard to Manage” High...
Tech Hiring Insights in the Silicon Forest
With over 75 techies in attendance, the co-sponsored tech hiring event on 10/23/19 drew technologists from all over the Portland area. Similar to other PDX meetups, we used red dots to indicate a person is looking for a job and yellow if you’re...
Out in Tech PDX: Equity by Design
On Wednesday, October 16th, the ProFocus team joined the Out In Tech Portland chapter for their first QTPOC (Queer/Trans People of Color) panel on Equity By Design. The distinguished panel discussed issues around designing for equity and inclusion while sharing their...
Building a Development Team: How to Attract, Hire & Retain Software Developers
What attracts software developers to a company — and what makes them stay? This was the first of two topics we discussed at our latest Leaders Lunch, held on August 29, 2019. John Boone, the President of ProFocus Technology, moderated the roundtable discussion of...
How To Get Out of the Endless Meeting Cycle
As an IT leader, you probably feel like you’re in meetings all day. That’s because you often are! Managers spend 35-50% of their time in meetings, and almost 70% of them think that the meeting wasn’t a successful event. While meetings can be frustrating, they can be...
The Strategy Successful Companies Are Using to Find the Best IT Talent
The largest and most successful companies in the world use contract staffing as a staple in their hiring. Last year at Google, for example, for the first time in the company’s 20-year history, contract workers outnumbered direct employees. Right here in our hometown...