A lesser-known neonatal unit of America’s IT Industry
Since the IT job market often insists that it’s not what you know, but who you know, it seems it would be wise for IT consultants to know who has the technical job opportunities they’re seeking. The source of many of the IT jobs that technical recruiters are working on is actually an area more known for its political conflict than its technical acumen: Israel. Despite all of its internal (and external) turmoil, Israelis can all seem to agree that innovation is key. Dubbed “The Startup Nation,” Israel has birthed 12 companies alone that just Cisco has bought in the past decade or so. With such high contributions to the information technology industry, there is no doubt that most IT staffing firms are filling jobs with Israeli origins.
What makes Israel a natural origin of some of the jobs IT headhunters have on supply? The Economist posits that Israel’s innovative nature comes from its land: as desert dwellers, Israelis are highly practiced at creativity. Living with a constant water deficiency turns out to be a perfect problem-solving boot camp. IT recruiting agencies and IT contractors might also find themselves working with Israeli-born companies because English is highly prevalent there, as are all of the standard business practices of a largely democratic nation. IT recruiters MA and IT recruiters CA may hardly notice they are working with a foreign-born company when they encounter of the many Israeli start-ups the American market has acquired.
What can IT staffing agencies and IT consultants do with this information? Use it for even more preparation in IT job interviews and the process of submitting prospective candidates and their resumes. Knowing that a sizeable portion of the Information Technology market has originated in Israel, IT recruiters can further inform their research. A candidate or IT recruiter who knows more about the company they’re working for is always more successful.
H-1B’s Might Drive Change for IT Recruiting Companies
It might be January, but today feels more like Christmas Eve to the information technology industry. As a bipartisan group of senators are set to present a bill that will increase the H-1B cap (and increase it again, depending on the demands of the market), IT recruiting firms, IT managers and IT contractors are waiting with baited breath. IT jobs are very often sought-out by immigrants in need of H-1B’s and IT recruiters Boston and IT recruiters CA will likely be affected with the rest of the technology market if the bill is passed.
In addition to a general strengthening of the industry, IT headhunters are likely to see a surge in foreign applicants’ resumes for technical jobs if the bill is passed. Previously, technical recruiters and IT consultants alike tended to count on the number of H-1B’s evaporating quickly. This bill may change the game for IT recruiters San Diego as IT jobs become more open to immigrants and as companies reap the more indirect benefits of the bill. Even if the bill does not pass, it marks considerable progress toward a bill like it passing one day in the future. Whatever the result, IT staffing firms are sure to remember this day for a long time.
Keep Cautious and Carry On: Social Networking Policies and IT Professionals
What’s in your Facebook news feed? Freedom from restrictive IT staffing workplace policies. Well, limited freedom, anyway. IT recruiters and IT consultants have long extolled the value of having a blog or Twitter account to display one’s information technology acumen for potential IT jobs. The well-edited, visually appealing blog or Twitter stream is nothing short of a living extension of resumes. However, even as social networking technologies are becoming the new breeding grounds for IT contractors and IT recruiters MA, caution rules the content. Workplaces scrambling to protect the reputations of their IT recruiters Boston and IT staffing companies have been implementing policies that can run the gamut from lenient to incredibly restrictive. IT recruiters CA, of course, have always advised acting on the safe side and following these Policies, no matter how much they might hinder one’s expression.
A recent article in the New York Times seems to indicate some freedom for bloggers, tweeters, facebookers, and other social networking technology users. The National Labor Relations Board has taken several noticeable stands on the issue lately, including re-instating workers who were terminated for (allegedly) incorrect social media usage and pressuring companies to write more lenient social media use codes. Facebook, Twitter, and their ilk should all be given the same freedom of expression that we have around, say, a water cooler. Extending the water cooler metaphor, IT recruiting companies would caution IT consultants to exercise the prudence that a newbie at work might have. A newbie at an IT job wouldn’t freely vent about supervisors or co-workers at the water cooler (even though it is technically allowed) because they are concerned about making a solid, positive first-impression. IT headhunters would rather that IT contractors, who are particularly vulnerable as they search for IT jobs or begin new ones, keep the content of their “living resumes” as palatable as possible to hiring managers and IT staffing agencies. Venting about workplace issues or co-workers at IT jobs is still a risky move for those seeking IT job opportunities. Even as the National Labor Relations Board brings new freedom to social media use, technical recruiters would suggest that IT consultants and IT contractors post, tweet, etc. with care.
Programming a bridge over the Gap (Model)
Could IT Professionals use some practice communicating? IT staffing firms Boston to IT recruiting companies CA have long been aware of “The Gap” model— A method of looking at the gap between IT consultants and the IT recruiters they serve. Hiring managers and IT headhunters are certainly looking for IT contractors who can deeply comprehend and create what IT recruiters Boston need. However, there tend to be a few barriers that obstruct great communication between those who hold IT jobs and the IT recruiters San Diego they serve. Generally, the Gap Model tends to note that IT consultants tend to have a higher reliance on logic and rationality, lack empathy for less experienced information technology users, have less of a need for social interaction, have a higher propensity for perfectionism when it comes to technological issues, and to operate on ‘IT time,’ or to take longer than expected to complete IT tasks. Of course, these qualities tend to be the opposite of what technical recruiters possess, creating a conflict in work styles and communication within IT staffing agencies themselves.
When people discuss the Gap Model, they tend to compare these communication barriers between users and IT recruiters MA to the kinds of communication conflicts caused when people are actually speaking different languages.
Whether the comparison is an exaggeration or not, the Gap Model certainly suggests an important problem—one that the information technology industry, including the IT staffing industry, IT contractors, and hiring managers would all do well to consider. Resumes, Linkedin and Monster profiles, and IT job interviews would be great places for prospective candidates to make sure they stress their willingness to communicate with a variety of IT recruiters LA. With some of that trademark IT professional obsession and perfectionism, the Gap Model could easily become a thing of the past.
Hot New Thing: The Internet of Things
What’s really driving IT job growth in the IT staffing sector right now? Things. The Internet of Things, or Machine to Machine (commonly referred to as M2M) has exploded and in its wake lie whole new sectors of the IT recruiting field. Part of the Big Data Revolution, M2M information technology essentially allows IT recruiters to track data from brand new places: things. M2M has been nicknamed the “Internet of Things.” This new “thing”-derived data is usually in the form of information from IT recruiting companies that can be taken directly from the products (generally equipped with wireless censors of some sort) that IT staffing companies produce, often as they are being used by their technical recruiters. Wireless Carrier, Auto Insurance, IT recruiting firms and Energy Management companies are some of the most prevalent users of the technology, but its applications are boundless, bringing new connections between IT staffing firms and the customers they want feedback and data from. Some IT recruiters CA are even suggesting that M2M might revolutionize not only the technical recruiting world, but the non-profit world and developing countries.
IT Recruiting Firms Embracing YouTube
As prospective IT consultants search the net for resume writing and interview tips, it would be in the best interest of IT recruiting firms to have helpful and interesting content that ensures these candidates land on their website and ultimately look at their IT jobs. In today’s social media age, YouTube is one of the best resources that prospective candidates can use for any number of self help tips. Subsequently, IT staffing companies should have their IT recruiters create mock interviews covering common questions and proper etiquette then post it on their website for others to see (ultimately drawing more people to their site). Additional ideas could be a “do” and “don’t” interview with various technical recruiters and their advise how best to work with IT recruiters Boston or IT recruiters CA.
YouTube provides an unlimited amount of ideas and potential videos for IT recruiting companies and their IT staffing salespeople and technical recruiters Boston. It could draw prospective candidates to their website and ultimately promote followers on their social media sites. Therefore, by embracing YouTube, IT recruiting agencies can ultimately drive revenue.
Running Late for an IT Job Interview
Trains, plains and automobiles. All are means of transportation that people have to take to get to an IT job interview….and all can be unreliable. Therefore, while IT recruiting firms understand that delays happen, whether unexpected accidents clogging up up the highways or just an abnormal amount of congestion on the roads, many times the commutes are out of people’s control. Subsequently, IT recruiters Boston should not hold any delays against their information technology candidate……if he or she calls the IT recruiting company to inform the IT recruiters that they are running late. It’s quite simple, in today’s age where everyone has a cell phone, if you find yourself runnng late to meet with IT staffing firms or direct client companies, simply call one of your technical recruiters.
There are no excuses for candidates that walk through the doors of IT staffing companies after their scheduled IT job interview time. Even if you’re a minute or two behind schedule – call. IT recruiters CA meet with dozens of candidates each week and speak with countless more. If you run late for an interview, you’re simply (and rightfully) going to be passed over for their IT jobs.
Conversely, if you find yourself more than 15 minutes early to meet with IT recruiting companies, take a walk around the block or grab a coffee. Showing up too early for an interview with technical recruiters Boston is a red flag as well.
Therefore, give yourself plenty of time to account for traffic, accidents or other potential delays….and if you find yourself at the IT staffing company well before your scheduled interview, walk around the block, kill some time to ensure you’re not too early for the IT job interview.
Arming IT Staffing Salespeople with Technology
IT recruiting firms do their best to stay atop of trends and provide their IT recruiters and IT staffing salespeople with as much technology as possible to help make them more efficient and ultimately profitable. Pagers are out, while PDA’s are pretty much mandatory for IT recruiting companies as technical recruiters need to be accessible around the clock. Web-based CRM’s such Salesforce that allow IT recruiters Boston the ability to log into their resume database from virtually anywhere is also a necessity. However, there is one growing trend that continues to catch on with IT staffing companies: arming their account managers with iPads.
With built-in wireless, iPads are giving IT staffing salespeople the ability to bring up information technology resumes right there in a client meeting in front of an IT manager. Some salespeople might even turn over the controls to the manager to let him/her see what type of resumes they can find in a resume database such as Bullhorn. Other technology advances include resume crawlers that work around the clock to populate the databases of IT recruiting firms.
Ultimately, IT staffing firms should evolve and align with their technology-driven industry. IT recruiters San Diego can be more productive and and drive more revenue if armed with the same, or more tools, than other competitive IT recruiting agencies.
A Look Back at IT Staffing in 2012
Now that we’ve entered a new year, it’s a good time to look back and reflect what was for IT recruiters and the best IT staffing companies in 2012. For all intents and purposes, 2012 was a solid year for most IT recruiting firms. While most industries struggled to overcome one of the worst recessions in our nation’s history, the IT staffing industry stood strong. IT recruiting agencies were not only stable, many of them grew over the past year. This speaks volumes to the strength of the IT recruiting industry, the niche need of IT consultants and the importance of technology in today’s business world. All three are key ingredients to success for IT staffing agencies.
As most companies enforced a budgetary freeze on spending, there were mission-critical IT projects (which required the need for IT recruiting companies to provide technical consultants) that could not be ignored. Since many companies rely upon e-commerce as a main (and sometimes only) source of revenue, utilizing IT staffing firms to help deliver these projects were critical to their success…and survival. To put into perspective, if Reebok needs to spend a couple of million in IT recruiting resources for a neccessary application development project tied into the sales of their sneakers online, the return could be in the ten’s or hundreds of millions. Therefore, spending the money and utilizing IT recruiters Boston to find them IT consultants to help deliver the project is a no-brainer. Once again, it’s the technology industry that drives the spend on mission-critical projects.
Therefore, if you’re looking to enter the recruiting world, take a good hard look at IT staffing. As we saw during 2012, and over the course of the entire economic recession, IT recruiting companies MA not only remained stable, many of them grew. There are very few industries that can say the same.
IT Recruiters Can Work From Anywhere
Back even a couple of years ago, technical recruiters could work from anywhere with an internet connection. However, in today’s information technology age, IT recruiters San Diego can work from virtually anywhere there is a wireless signal as they can use their cell phone as a modem. How times have changed.
Back even five years ago, IT recruiters Boston were forced to come into their IT staffing office to do all of their work and conduct searches. However, with web-based systems, what IT recruiters can work remotely and from the comfort of their own home.
Additionally, as technology advances and people continue to utilize email or texting over talking to IT recruiting companies, technical recruiters Boston can do more and more without even picking up their phone (this means late night emails and IT recruiting). Having said that, no candidate should ever be submitted to a client without having spoken to an IT recruiter live on the phone. At the end of the day, regardless of the technology advances, there is no substitute for screening out a candidate live or on the phone.
Therefore, if you’re considering working for any number of local IT recruiting firms, and a career as a technical recruiter, then you will have the ability to work at virtually any time of the day. Ultimately, what you put into working for IT staffing companies is what you’ll get out of it.