Weekly Roundup: Top 5 Career and Tech Hiring Tips -- October 31, 2014

Welcome to CyberCoders' Weekly Roundup! Every week, we handpick the top five stories from around the web that offer great insight into hiring in the tech industry. 

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1. Technically Scary: Halloween Costumes for the Modern Geek [ReadWrite]

Silicon Valley's prominence in the media and culture results in a few awesome, topical Halloween costumes.

Snapchat ghost, Comcast Customer Corpse, Uber recruiter and Ello make for some unique, tech-y costumes this year!

2. This is Why People Leave Your Company [First Round]

Carly Guthrie, head of HR for Per Se, one of the hottest restaurants in NY, explains why you lose people.

For instance, respecting your team's time and remembering they have a life outside of work, is a great and simple way to avoid making your team feel like they want to be elsewhere. Schedule work-related events and meetings during normal business hours as opposed to weekends or early Monday mornings.

Guthrie says that people who love their jobs will put in the time anyway.

3. How to Create a Culture of Productivity [Fast Company]

 Hiring folks with a great attitude is an important way to create a culture in which people get things done.  Bad attitudes can kill productivity for the whole team. 

Having an owner for each action or project is essential for getting things done. Someone needs to be held accountable.

Also, fear is never a good driver. If your team's too afraid to ask you a question, pitfalls are bound to happen.

4. The Right Way to Ask for What You Want [99u]

If you want something, you'll have an exponentially higher chance of getting it if you make it a point to be creative, exude confidence and put in sizable effort.

"You should also think about a unique or creative way you can package your ask so it stands out from the crowd."

5. Apple Employees and Industry Leaders Praise Tim Cook [Mashable]

After Apple CEO Tim Cook proudly announced that he is gay in a Business Week article, many key technology leaders Tweeted their admiration for Cook as an inspiration.

Mashable compiled many of such Tweets, including Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Virgin CEO Richard Branson, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.