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Most IT staffing firms will concur that IT professionals don’t really need to adhere to the 1 or 2 page rule for their resumes. IT recruiters routinely work with candidates who have very long resumes, sometimes over 5 or 6 pages. However, IT staffing agencies’ best candidates aren’t always the ones with novel-length resumes. Technical … Read More > Resume Too Long? 3 Easy Cuts to Make
Besides the technical skills section (which helps technical recruiters quickly decided if you might be a fit for their open IT jobs), the bullets under your jobs are the most important part of your resume to hiring managers and IT recruiters. Cleaning them up and updating them is the best way to strengthen your resume. … Read More > 3 Tips for Writing a Good Résumé
When you’re getting ready to work with IT recruiting firms to find your next role, the most important part is probably polishing and updating your resume. If you can’t hand your technical recruiters a great resume, you’ll severely limit the amount of IT jobs you can be considered for. Your IT recruiters can help you … Read More > Why Make a Resume That’s Less Technical?
When you’re polishing your resume, you shouldn’t waste an inch of space. IT recruiting firms and hiring managers are attracted by resumes that use every word to show why you’re an excellent candidate. With this in mind, your IT staffing companies would suggest that you do not include an objective on your resume. Why would … Read More > IT Professionals Shouldn’t Write Objectives on Their Resumes
Possibly the worst part of searching for new IT jobs is having to update your resume. Even when you’re working with IT recruiters, this is still a task that you’ll have to deal with. Here are 2 easy ways to make the process much less painful the next time your IT staffing firms ask for … Read More > 2 Ways to Make Updating Your Resume Easier
IT staffing agencies see a lot of confusion around the ‘Education’ section on resumes. Here are some answers to questions that IT recruiting firms often get from candidates about how to write this section of a resume when you’re searching for IT jobs. Where Do I Put the Education Section? The answer IT recruiters give here relies heavily on … Read More > 3 Questions About the Education Section on Your Resume
IT recruiters come across plenty of candidates who have odd job titles in IT. IT staffing companies find that especially in the tech field (and particularly startup companies) titles can include words like ‘ninja’ or ‘rockstar’. If you have one of these creative titles, here’s how to handle it on your resume so you attract IT … Read More > Unconventional Titles on IT Resumes
In today’s world, searching for IT jobs requires more than just polishing your resume and printing it on nice paper for IT recruiters. Especially if you’re trying to attract IT recruiting firms, it’s important to make sure your resume is adapted for a more digital world. Here’s how to make sure your resume can be most attractive to … Read More > Is Your IT Resume Mobile Ready?
Here’s one straightforward way you can improve your resume to attract more IT recruiters and hiring managers: replace every bullet that starts with ‘responsible for’ with a professional achievement. Why aren’t ‘responsible for’ statements on your resume as attractive to IT staffing firms? Because these statements simply tell IT recruiting companies what the description is/was … Read More > 1 Way to Improve Your IT Resume
When you polish up your resume to attract IT staffing firms, you may be tempted to create fancy tables or graphs to show your technical proficiencies or achievements. Perhaps you’ve even heard that these kinds of elements might make you stand out to IT recruiting firms and hiring managers. This is terrible advice, though. Here’s … Read More > Leave This Off Your IT Resume!