Posts Tagged ‘information technology’
Being a "Yes Man" in IT
Rarely is it desirable to be labeled the “Yes Man” at in IT jobs. However, IT professionals could gain by leaps and bound in their careers by doing their best to follow the code of the “Yes Man” with their IT recruiting agencies and IT managers. IT staffing companies are not looking for IT contractors…
Read MoreTo Be (a College Student) or Not to Be (in IT)?
Information technology became an early adopter of a debate that is now interesting to far more than IT professionals: Is College necessary at all? IT recruiters nationwide, from IT recruiters CA to IT recruiters Boston have plenty of successful examples of successful people who didn’t graduate college, including Mark Zuckerberg. IT headhunters can vouch for…
Read MoreWhat to Wear to an IT Interview
What should IT professionals wear to an interview with an IT manager or their IT recruiting companies? There is no “one size fits all” answer for the information technology field. IT recruiters CA will try to fill IT jobs for companies with very different dress codes than IT recruiters Boston. The differences don’t just vary…
Read MoreWhat College Grads Should Do As They Enter IT
With recent graduates getting ready to step into the information technology field, IT recruiters can be a great source of advice for how to be the best IT contractors they can be. IT recruiting agencies would prefer to work with IT professionals who embrace the professional, 9-5 life. This means IT headhunters look for people…
Read MoreFailing in IT? It's Ok!
IT recruiters CA to IT recruiters Boston tend to subscribe to the conventional wisdom about failure: avoid it. But technical recruiters and IT professionals should seriously re-think their concept of failure. As the founder of Linked In, Reid Hoffman, is now advocating in his new book, failure is merely an opportunity to learn in your…
Read MoreSmall and Effective Ways To Distinguish Yourself in IT
IT professionals, IT recruiters, and IT managers can all do a lot to positively impact their office and people’s impressions of them in the information technology world. Sometimes these things are big, like projects you list on resumes. Sometimes, however, small, simple acts can leave the biggest impression on IT contractors or IT headhunters. The…
Read MoreVarying Workplace Culture in IT
IT recruiters CA to IT recruiters Boston have seen some vastly different workplace cultures. Even in one industry like information technology, there are few standardized features of workplace culture that IT contractors can expect. Such vast differences in workplace culture certainly stem from IT managers and their companies. Some technical recruiters find that companies believe the…
Read MoreCyclical Happiness in IT
Information technology is certainly stands apart from most fields in most ways. However, there is one commonality that it tends to share with other professional fields: its happiest employees are generally its most valuable. Happy IT consultants are not just pleasant to work with, they also get a lot more work done for IT managers…
Read MoreIT's new Silicon Valley: Berlin
IT recruiters Boston and IT recruiters CA are used to hearing about start-ups from Israel, Silicon Valley, and most recently, Russia. However, IT recruiting firms and IT contractors will soon be hearing a lot about start-ups from Berlin. The information technology field has already seen a slow rise in German start-ups for a few reasons. …
Read MoreEducation Strives to Keep Up with IT
In a struggle to keep up with the constantly changing demands of the information technology field, universities are creating new educational programs to create IT professionals ready to participate in the hottest areas, such as Big Data. IT recruiters will able to select from pools of IT contractors with new degrees in very current areas,…
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