Advice from IT Recruiters
Evaluating IT Staffing Companies
When it comes to choosing the right IT recruiting firm (among hundreds of IT staffing companies) to represent you with your job search, there are many options. A quick internet search for an IT staffing or IT recruiting company in any given location can yield overwhelming results. This can be a particularly challenging issue for many IT job seekers…
Read MoreSubmit Your Resume to An IT Recruiter or Client?
You see an IT job posting for a company that you’re very interested in working for – then you see the same position posted by various IT recruiting companies. Who do you submit your resume to and do you submit to mulitple IT recruiters. The answer might surprise you. Submit your resume to the technical recruiter at…
Read MorePower Hiring in Technical Recruiting
Technical recruiters on top of their game understand that placing technical candidates within any industry isn’t just about matching a skill-set to an IT job description. There’s a lot more to consistently producing winning candidates who clinch IT jobs than pure background & skills. The IT recruiters who understand the issue of fit will be the…
Read MoreAll IT Staffing Companies Are Not Created Equal
If you’re an information technology professional, you know that there are a countless number of IT recruiting firms to choose from when you’re in need help of your next assignment. Therefore, when searching for the best technical recruiting agency to partner with, consider some of the following as not all IT staffing companies are created equal: 1) How long…
Read MoreIT Recruiters Should Prep Candidates For Counter Offers
Counter offers can be heartbreaking for IT recruiters. After putting in countless hours into their IT search, meeting with prospective candidates, coordinating IT job interviews and helping streamline a new hire, having a candidate back out of a placement due to a counter offer can be very deflating. To help ensure prospective candidates don’t blindside your technical…
Read MoreIT Recruiters Are Like Sports Agents
Ok, it’s a bit of a stretch, but you can draw a parallel between IT recruiters and sports agents. Here are a three similarities between technical recruiters and movie/sports agents: 1) Technical recruiters Boston represent their clients: Whether an IT job seeker or a movie or sport star, you’re being represented by someone with a…
Read MoreHow IT staffing Companies Find Candidates
The majority of IT recruiting firms pay to access the top resume and IT job boards such as Monster, CareerBuilder, Dice and Net Temps. The better IT staffing companies also have robust databases full of information technology resumes (any database over 100,000 resumes is typically considered pretty strong). However, the best technical recruiters and IT recruiting…
Read MoreIT Recruiters or Technical Recruiters?
Is there really a difference between calling high-tech headhunters IT recruiters or techncial recruiters? Not really. IT obviously stands for information technology recruiting while technical staffing could also include engineering or other technical industries. Either way, if you’re an information technology professional searching Google for IT staffing companies, it’s best to put IT recruiters into…
Read MoreIT Job Interview No-No's
What to do and what to say in an IT job interview are both age-old questions. Take it from these IT recruiters, and adhere to the following list of no-no’s with any technical job interview: 1) Don’t be late: While there’s no excuse for being late for an IT job interview (give yourself 2 extra hours…
Read MoreCan Facebook Help Your IT Job Search?
Everyone’s favorite social networking site, Facebook, plans to launch its own job board later this summer. The board will aggregate IT job postings from third-party sites and make them searchable to Facebook users. Considering the massive reach of the site, 955 million monthly active users, of which more than half are daily users, 552 million,…
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