Posts Tagged ‘IT headhunters’
Not 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 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…
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 More“Bob” – The Bane of IT staffing companies
Information technology has always had plenty of room for procrastination and general wasting of time. Productivity becomes difficult for IT managers to monitor when IT consultants spend most of their time on the computer. IT headhunters are often concerned about how disciplined an IT consultant might be, as they face the very real siren call…
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 MoreA lesser-known neonatal unit of America's IT Industry
Since the IT job market often insists that it’s not what you know, but who you know, it seems it would be wise for IT consultants to know who has the technical job opportunities they’re seeking. The source of many of the IT jobs that technical recruiters are working on is actually an area more known for…
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 MoreKeep Cautious and Carry On: Social Networking Policies and IT Professionals
What’s in your Facebook news feed? Freedom from restrictive IT staffing workplace policies. Well, limited freedom, anyway. IT recruiters and IT consultants have long extolled the value of having a blog or Twitter account to display one’s information technology acumen for potential IT jobs. The well-edited, visually appealing blog or Twitter stream is nothing short of a…
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