Posts Tagged ‘information technology’
Cyber Warfare: Suiting Up for IT Battle
One niche area of information technology that IT recruiters are working with is Cyber Warfare. While the name might connote violence, IT staffing agencies are actually filling IT jobs that require either defending or attacking networks. Often attacking networks comes down to finding and exploiting software flaws, while defending them requires the opposite: finding and…
Read MoreLooking to Russia for IT's future?
American IT recruiters, IT recruiting companies, and IT consultants are already aware of the impact that the EU’s approach to information technology on their own market, but some are just becoming aware of Russia’s influence. While IT recruiters Boston and IT recruiters CA especially have been seeing the plentitude of talent from Russia for a…
Read MoreTardiness in IT– Not So Straightforward
The IT job board, Careerbuilder, conducted a recent survey on tardiness to work illuminates some interesting trends, but it doesn’t tell the whole story for the nuances of what is acceptable in terms of tardiness for jobs in information technology. This year, the survey reports, over a third of hiring managers surveyed had to fire an employee…
Read MoreLeadership in IT: Just do "it"?
Information technology as a field offers a wide variety of leadership roles: Project manager, Lead programmer, etc. The obvious perks of these roles are higher salaries, more prestige, more intriguing work, and more benefits or vacation days, etc. However, does it ever make sense to turn one of these roles down, if offered? Or to ask…
Read MoreDealing with ethical concerns in the Technology Industry
IT recruiters and IT professionals encounter many issues when it comes to finding IT jobs for themselves or filling them for IT managers. Though it often may not be the most pressing concern, ethics and human rights are inescapable issues in information technology as a field. Apple is clearly one of the companies that has…
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 MoreProgramming a bridge over the Gap (Model)
Could IT Professionals use some practice communicating? IT staffing firms Boston to IT recruiting companies CA have long been aware of “The Gap” model— A method of looking at the gap between IT consultants and the IT recruiters they serve. Hiring managers and IT headhunters are certainly looking for IT contractors who can deeply comprehend and…
Read MoreHot New Thing: The Internet of Things
What’s really driving IT job growth in the IT staffing sector right now? Things. The Internet of Things, or Machine to Machine (commonly referred to as M2M) has exploded and in its wake lie whole new sectors of the IT recruiting field. Part of the Big Data Revolution, M2M information technology essentially allows IT recruiters to track data…
Read MoreRunning Late for an IT Job Interview
Trains, plains and automobiles. All are means of transportation that people have to take to get to an IT job interview….and all can be unreliable. Therefore, while IT recruiting firms understand that delays happen, whether unexpected accidents clogging up up the highways or just an abnormal amount of congestion on the roads, many times the…
Read MoreArming IT Staffing Salespeople with Technology
IT recruiting firms do their best to stay atop of trends and provide their IT recruiters and IT staffing salespeople with as much technology as possible to help make them more efficient and ultimately profitable. Pagers are out, while PDA’s are pretty much mandatory for IT recruiting companies as technical recruiters need to be accessible…
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