Posts Tagged ‘IT professionals’
Meetups: An Old-Fashioned Use for Technology in IT Recruiting
In a world saturated with technology, one of the job seeking methods that is rapildly-growing in popularity for IT consultants and IT recruiters is actually very old-fashioned: the meetup. Of course, the meetup is not entirely old fashioned. Advertised and arranged over the Internet, meetups are also full of technical recruiters and IT contractors exchanging information on their…
Read MoreCyber Warfare: Suiting Up for IT Battle
One niche area of information technology that IT recruiters are working with is Cyber Warfare. While the name might connote violence, IT staffing agencies are actually filling IT jobs that require either defending or attacking networks. Often attacking networks comes down to finding and exploiting software flaws, while defending them requires the opposite: finding and…
Read MoreLooking to Russia for IT's future?
American IT recruiters, IT recruiting companies, and IT consultants are already aware of the impact that the EU’s approach to information technology on their own market, but some are just becoming aware of Russia’s influence. While IT recruiters Boston and IT recruiters CA especially have been seeing the plentitude of talent from Russia for a…
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 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 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…
Read MoreTechnical Professionals Adjusting to a Project Management Role
Technical Professionals who have become experts in their chosen areas of technical talent may find their career trajectory leading them into a management role, and realizing, once in that role, that their job experience so far hasn’t prepared them for the pressures and challenges of IT management. Project management, a standard step in the promotion…
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