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4. Competitive Pay for IT Professionals

Naturally, pay comes into the equation. IT professionals see a lot of offers today. In fact, even passive candidates are being bombarded with opportunities to scale up in pay. Make sure your company is offering a competitive salary option for each IT role you are hiring. Even if your brand is interesting and the company culture is a perfect match, some people a higher paying offer might still win out.

Solution

Make sure you are aware of the current average market value of a role in terms of salary and benefits worth, then strive to meet and beat it. Only by exceeding the average can you compete with other companies who need IT professionals for these hard-to-fill roles.

5. IT Professionals Want Freedom in the Role

Some IT roles, in the past, have been micro-managed. IT today are realizing their freedom and are looking to maintain that. No one wants their screen watched and recorded 24-7 or to be pestered if their mouse doesn’t move during a 5-minute bathroom break. Likewise, IT professionals are intelligent people who don’t need every decision spoon-fed. If a tech professional asks about freedom, they want to know if they can make decisions and manage their process.

Strategy

Make sure your tech roles respect the intelligence and agency of your IT professionals. Build policies that make it possible to bring up your freedom-protection measures during recruitment and orientation to assure techs they will have some ability to do things their own way without worry.

6. Limited On-Call Demands

In the past, IT admins have often been isolated and kept on-demand as the “only person” available to fix essential systems. True or not, it’s a grueling and unpleasant type of schedule that now-remote IT pros don’t want to go back to. Being on-call all the time, even as paid time, is exhausting and stressful.

Strategy

Take that stress off the table so tech professionals become more interested in your role. Additionally, ensure certainty for a backup team and guaranteed off-time. Mention in the listing and during the interview that you require little to zero on-call time, and many IT will find this fact motivating.

7. The Right Cultural Fit

Last and often most importantly, IT professionals now know to check for cultural fit. It’s all too easy for an office to create stress, conflict, and anxiety. The hours you work, how you handle hybrid teams, and the way you joke in the office all matter when it comes to a good cultural fit, and modern tech professionals know this.

Strategy

Building a great company culture takes time, finding employees that fit your current culture takes transparency. Dedicate a section of each job listing to a blurb about the company culture, both as an org and a little something about the team they’ll be joining. Be open about your workflow and policies so those who love your setup become motivated employees and those that don’t will politely avoid later stress by bowing out of the race.

Examples of In-Demand Tech Roles

If you’re looking for a few examples of in-demand roles in Hawaiʻi, here are some from our own job board to use as examples.

Recruiting Top IT Professionals in Hawaiʻi

Don’t wait and make your IT candidates jump through hoops or someone else will hire them. If you like an IT candidate, vet them quickly and extend your offer before other offers reach them. IT is in high demand, and any professional currently job-seeking will be quickly scooped up. If you are having a hard time hiring at that rapid speed or just can’t find the right professionals for your role, connect your network to ours. We have developed a relationship with our network of IT professionals and can help you better match each role to the right person and skillset you need.