Posts Tagged ‘information technology’
Coming to an IT Company Near You: More Women
IT recruiting agencies, IT consultants, and the information technology industry as a whole has long decried its lack of women, especially in powerful positions. Recently, however, it seems as though strides have been made towards actually doing something about this problem. IT recruiters and IT contractors will certainly recognize the name Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s hyper-visible CEO…
Read MoreBridging the Gap: IT Recruiters For All Ages
The information technology field, being relatively new as a professional field, is particularly inundated with generations X and Y. It is also inundated with the problems that generations X and Y can cause in the workplace. IT recruiters Boston to IT recruiters CA agree that generations X and Y certainly approach work and the workplace…
Read MoreChange in the IT World: Necessary and Risky
Facebook’s changes this week certainly haven’t gone unnoticed by IT recruiters or the rest of the world. While analyses on the details of these changes vary, the consensus seems to be one that the information technology world, and thus technical recruiters and IT consultants, have long understood: Change is key to staying relevant, but it…
Read MoreIT Recruiters: The Best Way to Avoid Multiple Job Interviews
The information technology field has yielded yet another new reason for IT contractors to work with IT staffing firms: avoiding an endless parade of job interviews. IT recruiting firms build relationships with their clients that yield a more streamlined job interview and hiring process. With the new trend of IT consultants going on 6, 7,…
Read MoreIT Recruiters Rocking Out– and Networking in Austin
An IT recruiter and a music lover walk into a bar. No, it’s not a joke, it’s happening in Austin this year– over and over again– at the highly-anticipated music festival South by Southwest. While South by Southwest (often lovingly referred to by insiders as SXSW) the festival has become an increasingly popular haven for…
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 MoreEducation is Working Now to Change the IT Market of the Future
IT recruiting firms are well-aware of the disparity between the IT jobs available in the US and the number of people who actually study and graduate with the right training to be IT professionals. Everyone knows Math and Science need some heavy promotion among students, but few know it on the kind of practical level…
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 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 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…
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