How Can You Get The Person You Want?

A few hundred miles north, in Auburn, Mass., Robert Schoen has seen an annual, upward pressure on salaries when he tries to fill a role at Akuity Technologies, a managed services provider. That's why Akuity strives to look beyond salary, such as ensuring work-life balance, to fill roles with the people they want, according to the senior project manager.

"We try to keep that work-life balance reasonable," he said.

Today, that and other elements of the job or workplace could go a long way toward filling key roles.

If you plan to be filling a few soon, here are five hiring tips from Robert Half Technology, based on its recent survey of more than 2,500 chief information officers in the U.S.