Advice from IT Recruiters
IT Certifications: Honey for Hummingbirds
If IT recruiters were hummingbirds, what would be IT professionals’ honey, so to speak? IT certifications are certainly a possible solution for the metaphor. IT staffing firms appreciate IT certifications for many reasons. Perhaps the most obvious reason IT recruiting companies appreciate IT certifications is that it makes candidates eligible and more likely to get…
Read MoreMentoring in the IT World
Mentoring is an effective practice across a myriad of professional fields, including information technology. IT professionals can certainly make themselves more attractive to technical recruiters nationwide, from IT recruiters CA to IT recruiters Boston by working with a mentor to hone their technical skills, professional demeanors, and resumes. IT staffing firms will be especially excited…
Read MoreIT is Re-Shaping Etiquette Rules Quickly
Emily Post’s opinion hasn’t carried much weight in society for a while, but recently there has been a rash of blogs that are concerned with etiquette—as it’s been changed by information technology. IT recruiters, IT contractors, and all IT professionals in general are certainly pressured to keep up with the subtle changes in etiquette that…
Read MoreNot Optional: Bring Your Own Questions to IT interviews
IT staffing firms often prepare IT consultants to answer tough, detailed questions that you’d only encounter in the information technology field. Technical recruiters Boston should be equally focused on making sure that IT contractors interviewing for IT jobs are able to ask their own questions. IT recruiting companies need their job candidates to answer questions…
Read MoreResumes: To Write, or to Have Written. That is the Question.
In an increasingly saturated information technology market, IT recruiters respond best to resumes that are crafted with extra care and attention to detail. Technical recruiters are not only looking for resumes that list previous job experience. Clean, efficiently-worded descriptions and well-utilized key words are really what make IT staffing firms pay attention to IT consultants…
Read MoreCyber Warfare: Suiting Up for IT Battle
One niche area of information technology that IT recruiters are working with is Cyber Warfare. While the name might connote violence, IT staffing agencies are actually filling IT jobs that require either defending or attacking networks. Often attacking networks comes down to finding and exploiting software flaws, while defending them requires the opposite: finding and…
Read MoreTardiness in IT– Not So Straightforward
The IT job board, Careerbuilder, conducted a recent survey on tardiness to work illuminates some interesting trends, but it doesn’t tell the whole story for the nuances of what is acceptable in terms of tardiness for jobs in information technology. This year, the survey reports, over a third of hiring managers surveyed had to fire an employee…
Read MoreLeadership in IT: Just do "it"?
Information technology as a field offers a wide variety of leadership roles: Project manager, Lead programmer, etc. The obvious perks of these roles are higher salaries, more prestige, more intriguing work, and more benefits or vacation days, etc. However, does it ever make sense to turn one of these roles down, if offered? Or to ask…
Read MoreRunning 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…
Read MoreTailor Your Resume For Each IT Job!
Imagine IT recruiters, HR or IT managers sorting through dozens and dozens of resumes for each IT job. If you put yourself in their shoes, you’d be more aware of the importance of a nice clean resume….and one that bleeds the position you’re hiring for. Prospective candidates who send one standard template resume for all IT…
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