Posts Tagged ‘IT job’
All IT Staffing Companies Are Not Created Equal
If you’re an information technology professional, you know that there are a countless number of IT recruiting firms to choose from when you’re in need help of your next assignment. Therefore, when searching for the best technical recruiting agency to partner with, consider some of the following as not all IT staffing companies are created equal: 1) How long…
Read MoreIT Recruiters Should Prep Candidates For Counter Offers
Counter offers can be heartbreaking for IT recruiters. After putting in countless hours into their IT search, meeting with prospective candidates, coordinating IT job interviews and helping streamline a new hire, having a candidate back out of a placement due to a counter offer can be very deflating. To help ensure prospective candidates don’t blindside your technical…
Read MoreIT Recruiters Are Like Sports Agents
Ok, it’s a bit of a stretch, but you can draw a parallel between IT recruiters and sports agents. Here are a three similarities between technical recruiters and movie/sports agents: 1) Technical recruiters Boston represent their clients: Whether an IT job seeker or a movie or sport star, you’re being represented by someone with a…
Read MoreHow IT staffing Companies Find Candidates
The majority of IT recruiting firms pay to access the top resume and IT job boards such as Monster, CareerBuilder, Dice and Net Temps. The better IT staffing companies also have robust databases full of information technology resumes (any database over 100,000 resumes is typically considered pretty strong). However, the best technical recruiters and IT recruiting…
Read MoreIT Recruiters or Technical Recruiters?
Is there really a difference between calling high-tech headhunters IT recruiters or techncial recruiters? Not really. IT obviously stands for information technology recruiting while technical staffing could also include engineering or other technical industries. Either way, if you’re an information technology professional searching Google for IT staffing companies, it’s best to put IT recruiters into…
Read MoreIT Job Interview No-No's
What to do and what to say in an IT job interview are both age-old questions. Take it from these IT recruiters, and adhere to the following list of no-no’s with any technical job interview: 1) Don’t be late: While there’s no excuse for being late for an IT job interview (give yourself 2 extra hours…
Read MoreCan Facebook Help Your IT Job Search?
Everyone’s favorite social networking site, Facebook, plans to launch its own job board later this summer. The board will aggregate IT job postings from third-party sites and make them searchable to Facebook users. Considering the massive reach of the site, 955 million monthly active users, of which more than half are daily users, 552 million,…
Read MoreIT Recruiters Monopolize the IT Job Market
There are so many IT recruiting companies Boston to choose from it can be overwhelming. Due to the sheer volume of technical recruiters, it seems like virtually every information technology position from a client company has at least one IT recruiting agency working on it. Therefore, knowing IT recruiting firms Massachusetts have a virtual monopoly on the…
Read MoreSelecting the Right IT Recruiting Firm for You
Finding the right IT staffing company can be difficult….especially in an area like Boston where there are so many IT recruiting firms to choose from. To help you find the right technical recruiting company that is right for you, and ultimate an IT recruiter who you can build a relationship with, try the following approach:…
Read MoreIT Jobs are Heating Up!
Being an IT recruiting company, we’ve been a pretty good barometer on the national technology IT job market. The local IT staffing Boston industry itself has remained steady even in the worst of times. However, as our nation climbs out of one of the worst economic downturns our country has ever seen, IT jobs are becoming…
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