As Senior Manager of Content Marketing for Dice, Courtney provides valuable content for tech recruiters and employers of tech talent that supports productive hiring and retention practices. Courtney writes about tech hiring trends, salary trends, best practices for sourcing, recruiting, hiring and retaining tech talent, as well as strategic guides to employer branding and DEIB (diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging).
Articles by Courtney Patterson
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Three Ways to Increase the Impact of Your DEIB Efforts
Companies across the U.S. have renewed and increased their focus on diversity, equity and inclusion since the events of racial unrest in 2020, but have those efforts had an impact? Dice’s latest research says n… -
Why Your Employer Brand is Vital to Attracting and Retaining Tech Talent
The importance of investing in your brand and reputation as an employer has become increasingly important with the mass reassessment of how work fits into tech professionals’ lives — and you recognize this. Nin… -
Latest Tech Job Trends: What Recruiters Need to Know
Understanding the tech hiring landscape is imperative to building and executing effective recruiting and hiring strategies. With tech unemployment hitting 2.1% in May and the number of tech job postings growing… -
Refresh Your Sourcing Strategy: 3 Tactics for Finding Tech Talent
Recruiters spend, on average, one third of their work week sourcing candidates. That’s because filling your pipeline with qualified talent is not only essential to your success as a tech recruiter, but also to… -
How Technologists are Experiencing Racial and Gender Discrimination in the Workplace: Dice 2022 Equality in Tech Report
Race and gender discrimination remain a prevalent issue in tech. The latest Dice Equality in Tech Report shows that, between 2020 and 2021, little movement was seen in sentiment around discrimination for gender… -
Importance of Organizations’ Commitment to DEI Rises for Technologists: Dice 2022 Equality in Tech Report
The importance that technologists place on an organization’s reputation regarding diversity, equity and inclusion increased between 2020 and 2021. However, less than half of technologists have been impressed wi… -
How to Up Your Tech Recruiting Game: Three Ways to Adapt
The best recruiters have proven their value throughout the pandemic by adapting. Through the uncertainty and a hiring landscape that continues to be unsettled, recruiters who continue to learn new skills, suppo… -
Screening with Intention: New Answers to Listen for When Recruiting Technologists
The pandemic presented a gamut of new challenges for organizations and technologists and opportunities to think critically, experiment and adjust in a time of uncertainty. Recruiters searching for tech talent i… -
5 Mistakes to Avoid When Recruiting Tech Talent
With tech unemployment notably low (2% in December) and organizations still stabilizing from the move to remote work and overall forced digitization spurred by the pandemic, recruiting technologists right now f… -
Hiring Tech Talent Will Continue to Be Pricey in 2022: Dice Tech Salary Report
The past two years have been a period of enormous uncertainty for organizations across the country. During the COVID-19 pandemic, employers everywhere were forced to embrace remote work; throughout 2021, they’v…