Three Ways to Make Mondays Better at Your IT Job

Mondays always wind up being the slowest day of the week, whatever side of the information technology field you’re on.  IT recruiters, IT contractors, and IT managers all feel the drag on Monday.  But there are a few things IT professionals can do that will make their Mondays go as quickly as their Thursdays. Start…

Read More

3 Ways to Communicate Better With Your IT Managers

Like most managers, IT managers are pressed for time and sometimes (if not often) stressed or overwhelmed with deadlines and projects.  For IT contractors, communicating with a manager at their IT jobs can be intimidating, especially when they don’t know them well.  Below are a few tips for IT consultants to improve their communication with…

Read More

How to Say No to IT Managers Gracefully

IT professionals are often pressed for time, as the information technology industry tends to run on a 24-7 schedule.  When IT managers hand their IT contractors one project too many, what is the best way to gracefully say “no thank you!”  Read on to see some tips for the best ways IT consultants can say…

Read More

The Best Way to Polish an IT Resume

As in any field, there’s plenty of bad advice on how to create resumes passed around the information technology field.  One of the worst pieces of advice that IT professionals might have encountered is to just list out their skills.  While IT managers and IT recruiters want to be able to clearly see what IT…

Read More

Why IT Managers Can’t Be Friends with Reports

As in every industry, some IT professionals occasionally come across a moment when they have to make a decision: Can they be friends with their boss?  Or if they’re an IT manager, can they be friends with the IT consultants who report to them?  Whether you’re in information technology or zoology, the answer to this…

Read More

3 Ways to Start Your IT Work Day Off Right

IT professionals from all over the Information Technology industry can agree that there are universally wonderful and terrible ways to start the day at their IT jobs.   Here are a 3 ways everyone from IT recruiters, to IT consultants, to IT managers can start their days. Get up right away.  Sleeping beyond one snooze button…

Read More

5 Ways to Blow an IT Job Interview

IT recruiters and IT managers are admittedly hard up for IT professionals these days.  The information technology field is absolutely a job seeker’s market right now.  However, that doesn’t mean that IT consultants can’t perform well in interviews.  If IT contractors make any of the major mistakes below, they’re actively taking themselves out of the…

Read More

Complaining about IT Coworkers Effectively

IT professionals in every corner of the Information technology industry—from IT consultants to IT headhunters—have to deal with the occasional issue with a coworker.  The best case scenario is to have to avoid bringing the issue to IT managers.  However, sometimes IT contractors and IT recruiters have no choice.  For those unfortunate times, here are…

Read More