Selecting the Right Application Managers
Hiring is one of the toughest challenges any company can face, either large enterprises or new startups. There is a great deal of know-how kind of experience when hiring a Application Manager, not all companies have the right processes that can warrant best hires.
At SupportFinity, we streamlined our processes and in-house standards to make sure of having one of the top world-class hiring processes. The magic mix of skills ingredients is what separates a great hire from a not-so-good one. We came to this conclusion through consulting top technical and HR experts in addition to our years of work and exposure with most sophisticated projects across almost all tech verticals and areas of expertise. So you get one of the best recruitment processes to hire a Application Manager.
As we have created and crafted a unique method of teams’ customization, we have also perfected our signature model of matching the right skills for our customers to hire either one Application Manager or a team of Application Managers. We have a long lasting belief in the power of data analytics in creating unmatchable results, thus, we apply our analytical models on our hiring process same as we do in our business model.
Application Manager Job Description Template
Application Manager
AKA: Application Lifecycle Manager
- Manages and Plans the life cycle of the application with product development teams and application owners
- Ensures that when the product delivers to operations, it is done as agreed
- The Application Manager works closely with business owners, product implementation teams and internal regions
- The Application Manager monitors, and Act-on various performance metrics on applications, visualizes and presents ongoing trends to business stakeholders.
- Optimizes the sourcing set-up with a key focus on enhancing the quality and reducing costs.
- Manages application costs and budgets giving full cost transparency of the application and responsible for the total cost of ownership.
- Works closely with the Application Support Teams providing global support to end-users
- The Application Manager is responsible for overseeing the operation support of the projects to provide an immediate resolution on technical issues arising.
- Knowledge of system design, development, implementation, and user support principles and practices.
- Experience with database management.
- Familiarity with Project management principles.
- Can take responsibility for the application maintenance and support of assigned Applications.
- Demonstrated skill in developing automated business systems.
- Ability to communicate technical information to a non-technical audience.
- Knowledge of advanced systems analysis methods, practices, and principles.
- Ability to analyse, should have critical reasoning and problems solving skills .
We receive requests of hiring from candidates among more than 100 countries.
As we bring skills from each and every place in the world, we make sure we have the
right match of language proficiency with our clients' requirements.
Your Application Manager or team of Application Managers will have the needed level of language knowledge you expect,
each candidate passes through our language tests that warrant at least a good
command of reading, writing and speaking of the languages our clients ask for.
We know that communication starts from speaking common languages, thus we put this aspect as a first factor in
our selection process, we do not proceed with hiring for Application Manager before making sure that the
candidate passes the language ability tests first.
The next level of screening we perform at SupportFinity is the
communication quality, in this stage we make sure that the Application Manager
can deliver high quality of communication; especially on the technical aspects of the job.
We conduct our assessments to cover multiple aspects of communication
quality, such as:
The ability of self-explanation ( writing – speaking )
The ability of describing problems structurally and technically ( writing & speaking)
The ability of explaining ideas, situations and problems ( reading, writing & speaking)
This part mainly measures the logical, numerical and analytical aptitude of each candidate, top ones are the only ones we select for next stages.
We have a set of interview tests that measure the agreeability levels of each candidate for
Application Manager, we do so as we believe that likability of any person starts from the ability
to achieve high levels of agreeability without compromising critical thinking.
We also measure the creativity side of the Application Manager you look for, where we see when and how each
candidate can apply out-of-the-box and innovative ways of fixing problems or creating new solutions.
Some people can do well when working on their own, some others cannot!
Knowing this matters a lot when hiring a Application Manager with regard to the team size needed.
Remote work needs a special level of team work skills, so we make sure that your Application Manager can adapt and work well with your team
and be quickly part of it if needed.
We care about hiring someone who can deliver, create and perform the way you expect
with passion and enthusiasm.
We assess our people’s technical abilities on the merits of achievements more
than anything else.
Hiring the right Application Manager is an uneasy decision, we consider
measing the actual technical skills of each candidate.
Having a great resume
is just the start for us, we select candidates know what they say
they know!
We conduct advanced technical tests to make sure we cover the needed knowledge your
Application Manager needs to have to excel for your business.
We weigh academic qualifications as well, we also request our full time employees to submit their education evidence as a major hiring rule to follow. We believe having the right academic qualifications can make a great difference, especially in advanced science based areas like electronic design, engineering planning...etc.
One important metric for us is the ability of your Application Manager to learn new skills, so we make sure that we select people who are only dynamic and willing to learn new ones.
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