Posts Tagged ‘IT managers’
IT Certifications: Honey for Hummingbirds
If IT recruiters were hummingbirds, what would be IT professionals’ honey, so to speak? IT certifications are certainly a possible solution for the metaphor. IT staffing firms appreciate IT certifications for many reasons. Perhaps the most obvious reason IT recruiting companies appreciate IT certifications is that it makes candidates eligible and more likely to get…
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 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 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 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 MoreHow Europe Affects IT Recruiting Firms
As illustrated in last week’s exploration of Israel as nursery of a surprising portion of America’s information technology industry, IT recruiting firms, IT managers, and IT consultants are often impacted by global trends. The Big Data Revolution, a driving force in creating the plethora of IT jobs that IT staffing agencies have been filling most…
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 MoreInformational Interviews and Shadowing
In the IT staffing Industry, there are many techniques aimed at helping a candidate land an IT job. As a prospective candidate, you should utilize all of these “tricks of the trade.” One “trick” our IT recruiters recommend is trying to schedule an informational meeting with a potential IT hiring manager. Most managers and executives…
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