Posts Tagged ‘IT professionals’
Don’t Make These Mistakes at Your IT Job!
You don’t have to be in one of your first jobs in information technology to be making some mistakes that really hurt your career. IT contractors could easily wind up missing some social cues for workplaces that really hurt their reputation with other IT consultants they work with or the IT recruiters they want to…
Read MoreAre Your Emails Hurting Your IT Career?
In information technology, email is often the most commonly used way to communicate between IT consultants and their coworkers, clients, bosses, etc. If your emails aren’t done well, you could be communicating poorly with any of these people. Worse, you might be ruining your reputation with various IT recruiters and IT staffing firms (and thus…
Read MoreDo You Have These Important Soft Skills for IT Professionals?
All IT jobs require particular technical skills, but they also require soft skills that are beyond the usual content of resumes. IT recruiters can all attest to the power of likability in IT professionals. IT managers will always pick the IT contractors who not only have the ability to do the job, but also have…
Read MoreThe Best Advice for Your IT Career That You’ve Never Heard
Most IT professionals are aware of the standard career advice. How to be professional, how to make sure their work is recognized, etc. However, the best career advice IT consultants can get, the advice that will make sure IT recruiters are always chasing them and they have their pick of IT jobs, is the advice…
Read MoreAre You Messing Up This IT Job Interview Question?
Most IT professionals who search with IT recruiters for their IT jobs are pretty well prepared for interviews. With all the potential questions- technical and not, technical recruiters usually have lengthy conversations with IT consultants before interviews. But there are some questions that IT professionals need to prep themselves for: the tricky ones that IT managers…
Read MoreIs Your IT Team Overworked? How to Fix it.
Sometimes in information technology, a team’s workload is unrelenting. Perhaps there are just too many top-priority projects and too few IT consultants on staff to finish them. How can IT managers delegate to the IT contractors reporting to them even if their plates are already full? Here are a few options to consider: Show your…
Read MoreDo you Overshare at Your IT Job?
As open-plan offices increase in popularity, IT contractors and IT managers are all finding themselves experiencing—or perhaps becoming—a office oversharer. According to studies, more than 3 in 5 workers says they are dealing with people oversharing at work….
Read MoreShould You Accept that IT Job Offer?
For IT contractors, the leap to new IT jobs occurs a little more often. How should IT consultants evaluate a new job offer before accepting? Here are a few things IT professionals should ask themselves and their IT recruiters before filling out final paperwork. What are the IT managers styles? What’s the corporate culture like?…
Read MoreFacebook’s Scandal and How it Will Impact IT Professionals
It may not be shocking, but information technology has seen one of, if not its first, scandal of an IT company abusing its technology. In the last few weeks, it has come to light that Facebook has used its IT contractors and IT consultants to help a psychological study to be carried out on an…
Read More3 Things You Must Know Before Doing IT Job Interviews
There are some things IT contractors are expected to know before they interview for IT jobs….
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