Posts Tagged ‘IT professionals’
When to Stay in Your IT Job…and When to Leave
IT consultants must ask themselves a tough question from time to time: Should I start looking to leave my current job? IT professionals who are considering polishing their resumes should consider a few major factors before trying to move on to new IT jobs. The first major fact is the state of the economy and…
Read MoreGoing Over an IT Manager's Head
Sometimes in information technology it’s unclear if you should follow your IT managers or go over their heads. While this situation isn’t enviable, IT contractors and IT headhunters can use a few major rules of thumb to determine if it will hurt or help their IT jobs to go over a manager’s head. There are…
Read MoreNew Ways to Consider Time Management in IT
The information technology field can be pretty hectic, and IT professionals with time management skills are certainly at a premium. Some new research might help IT consultants, IT recruiters, and IT managers think differently about how they can work at their IT Jobs most efficiently. The first thing IT contractors and technical recruiters can do…
Read MoreInterruptions in IT
As open plan offices become more and more common and information technology departments are less and less often relegated to the basement, IT professionals are experiencing exponentially more interruptions during their IT jobs. After various studies, it seems that most IT contractors are experiencing interruptions so frequently that they spend about 3 minutes at a…
Read MoreMajor Resume Mistakes to Avoid in IT
Creating perfect resumes in the information technology field isn’t hard. IT professionals often have the benefit of IT recruiters and their praise accompanying their resumes to IT managers. Even if IT consultants have this added benefit, though, they certainly won’t get anywhere in their job search (with hiring managers or IT staffing firms) if they…
Read MoreIT Certifications and Degrees: Coming Soon from Pepsi?
IT recruiters Boston to IT recruiters CA have been seeing some surprises on IT contractors’ resumes: corporate schools. Brands like Red Bull have been creating programs that provide traditionally more academic type training. With new technologies coming out all the time, the information technology field is particularly fertile for such “corporate schools.” The ability to…
Read More"Failure" in IT Still Tastes Sweet
The information technology field and the IT professionals who work in it have certainly portrayed a different version of ‘economic downturn’ than any other field in the economy. Even as the economy slowly crawls back, IT jobs multiply exponentially, often outnumbering the amount of IT consultants who can take them. All this success means that…
Read More"Fall" Into Your IT Job Search
IT recruiters and IT contractors are just beginning to dive into fall job searching after the slower, vacation-addled Summer season. IT professionals searching for new IT jobs can certainly expect to find IT headhunters and IT managers with arms wide open in a great candidates’ market. It seems that a few factors will be driving…
Read MoreIntroverts in IT
Information technology is a field that draws an unprecedented number of introverted IT consultants and IT managers. The long hours alone by a computer screen certainly appeal to a great number of IT professionals. This high concentration of introverts makes Susan Cain’s research on how to utilize them in the workplace particularly relevant to the…
Read MoreThe Time to Prepare for Your Next IT Layoff is Now
It might seem completely counterintuitive, but because information technology is a generally robust field at the moment, it would behoove IT professionals to take time now to prep themselves for layoffs. This is not a doomsday prediction for IT staffing firms or IT contractors. Hopefully the next recession is many years off. However, it’s best…
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