Posts Tagged ‘IT professionals’
Failing in IT? It's Ok!
IT recruiters CA to IT recruiters Boston tend to subscribe to the conventional wisdom about failure: avoid it. But technical recruiters and IT professionals should seriously re-think their concept of failure. As the founder of Linked In, Reid Hoffman, is now advocating in his new book, failure is merely an opportunity to learn in your…
Read MoreSmall and Effective Ways To Distinguish Yourself in IT
IT professionals, IT recruiters, and IT managers can all do a lot to positively impact their office and people’s impressions of them in the information technology world. Sometimes these things are big, like projects you list on resumes. Sometimes, however, small, simple acts can leave the biggest impression on IT contractors or IT headhunters. The…
Read MoreVarying Workplace Culture in IT
IT recruiters CA to IT recruiters Boston have seen some vastly different workplace cultures. Even in one industry like information technology, there are few standardized features of workplace culture that IT contractors can expect. Such vast differences in workplace culture certainly stem from IT managers and their companies. Some technical recruiters find that companies believe the…
Read MoreCyclical Happiness in IT
Information technology is certainly stands apart from most fields in most ways. However, there is one commonality that it tends to share with other professional fields: its happiest employees are generally its most valuable. Happy IT consultants are not just pleasant to work with, they also get a lot more work done for IT managers…
Read MoreManagers: How to Respond to Requests for a Raise
IT managers have a myriad of dreaded conversations with their IT contractors. Perhaps the most dreaded conversation, though, is when employees ask for a raise. While IT recruiting firms certainly try to negotiate the best salary possible for IT consultants upon entry of a new job, over time this amount will almost certainly become less…
Read MoreIT's new Silicon Valley: Berlin
IT recruiters Boston and IT recruiters CA are used to hearing about start-ups from Israel, Silicon Valley, and most recently, Russia. However, IT recruiting firms and IT contractors will soon be hearing a lot about start-ups from Berlin. The information technology field has already seen a slow rise in German start-ups for a few reasons. …
Read MoreHelping After the Boston Marathon Tragedy
In response to last Monday’s horrific events, AVID Technical Resources will be donating to the fund for Roseann Sdoia(http://www.gofundme.com/roseann). AVID urges IT professionals and others to consider also donating to this worthy cause. In the wake of the horrible Boston marathon bombings, showing support for Roseann is one way to begin rebuilding our city’s heart. Roseann bravely…
Read MoreEducation Strives to Keep Up with IT
In a struggle to keep up with the constantly changing demands of the information technology field, universities are creating new educational programs to create IT professionals ready to participate in the hottest areas, such as Big Data. IT recruiters will able to select from pools of IT contractors with new degrees in very current areas,…
Read MoreIT Raises its Presence in a Surprising Arena
IT recruiting firms, IT managers, and IT consultants are all still discussing a surprising topic: national policy. IT staffing agencies and other IT professionals, even those as influential as Mark Zuckerberg, began a heated conversation about H-1B workers several months ago as the nation considered significantly increasing the number of H-1B visas allowed per year.…
Read MoreBuilding a Positive IT Team
The best companies to work for are the ones where “service with a smile” isn’t just a façade for customers or clients, it’s natural. This is especially true of companies in information technology because it so often ends up being more of a “back of the house” industry where grumpy IT consultants could easily hide…
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