Who is AVID?
Please Join Us in Helping the Boston Marathon Victims
AVID’s IT recruiters Boston, IT recruiters CA, along with all IT professionals in the Boston area were shocked by the tragedies at the Boston marathon last week. AVID will be donating to Roseann’s recovery fund. Please join us or consider donating to the Boston One Fund, or to Jeff Bauman’s fund. The cost of recovery…
Read MoreHelping After the Boston Marathon Tragedy
In response to last Monday’s horrific events, AVID Technical Resources will be donating to the fund for Roseann Sdoia(http://www.gofundme.com/roseann). AVID urges IT professionals and others to consider also donating to this worthy cause. In the wake of the horrible Boston marathon bombings, showing support for Roseann is one way to begin rebuilding our city’s heart. Roseann bravely…
Read MoreWhy the IT World Is Obsessed with Yahoo
Why are IT recruiters and IT consultants obsessed with Yahoo’s moves? IT staffing firms and IT consultants, along with most other IT professionals, seem fixated on most, if not every move that Yahoo and its new CEO Marisssa Mayer make. Mayer’s Telecommuting policy sparked a nation-wide debate by IT recruiters CA to IT recruiters Boston. …
Read MoreTeam-Building in the IT World
The information technology field has always been open to new business practices. One of the newest growing trends is group exercise classes as team-building tools. IT recruiters and IT contractors have become aware of more and more companies that offer classes likeCrossfit in-house and out of the office. IT staffing firms hear a mélange of…
Read MoreIs Cutting Telecommuting in the IT Field A Blow to Women and Families?
Yahoo’s recent anti-telecommuting decision has thrown the practice into the spotlight, but IT recruiters have been debating its merits for years. IT staffing firms are often given IT jobs to fill that provide options for IT consultants to telecommute. The benefits are numerous for IT staffing companies, IT contractors, and companies. Costs are saved for…
Read MoreAmericans Aren't Convenient to Overlook in IT Field
Recently the news has noted quite a bit of American opposition to the H-1B reforms, especially in the information technology industry. IT contractors have been alleging that technical recruiters already have a track record of favoring alien workers over American workers to fill IT jobs (even when they should not be). IT staffing firms, they…
Read MoreOne Man's Hacker is Another Man's IT Professional
IT recruiting firms, like the rest of the world, might increasingly find themselves forced to reconsider their stances on hacking. IT staffing companies have already been dealing with IT contractors and consultants who may openly or covertly already hack in order to sharpen their own skills and value as potential hires. As a Bloomberg writer…
Read MoreMeetups: An Old-Fashioned Use for Technology in IT Recruiting
In a world saturated with technology, one of the job seeking methods that is rapildly-growing in popularity for IT consultants and IT recruiters is actually very old-fashioned: the meetup. Of course, the meetup is not entirely old fashioned. Advertised and arranged over the Internet, meetups are also full of technical recruiters and IT contractors exchanging information on their…
Read MoreA 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…
Read MoreH-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…
Read More