Posts Tagged ‘IT recruiters’
How to Get your Ideas Heard in IT Meetings
IT recruiters, IT contractors, and IT managers alike all have to attend plenty of meetings. Getting through them is easy enough, but making yourself heard can be a challenge. For technical recruiters and IT consultants, the most important challenge of any meeting is making sure their key ideas are heard. Below are a few ways…
Read MoreHow Older IT Consultants Should Job Search
Since the recession started back in the early 2000’s, IT recruiters and IT staffing agencies have seen an influx of older IT consultants looking for IT jobs. Though the information technology market hasn’t suffered quite as badly during the recession, older IT contractors seeking jobs have certainly had a harder time getting hired (while the…
Read MoreWhen Your IT Manager is a Bottleneck
As in any industry, IT professionals are sometimes faced with IT managers that are bottlenecks. Sometimes it’s because there are simply too many things going on—Information Technology is of course a very busy industry. However, sometimes the manager just is disorganized or inefficient. There are a few things that IT recruiters would suggest that IT…
Read MoreBrooklyn: IT's Newest Home
IT staffing agencies and IT headhunters are used to seeing an ever-growing concentration of information technology companies (particularly startups) in California, but Brooklyn seems to be starting its own colony of startups now, too. IT recruiting agencies and IT recruiters are finding more and more interesting opportunities for their IT contractors on the East coast…
Read MoreThe First 30 Days of Your New IT Job
The new year is a common time for IT recruiters to be placing IT contractors in new IT jobs. There are plenty of obvious pieces of advice that IT staffing agencies give to their IT consultants starting new jobs. There are a few subtle things that IT professionals can do to really impress their IT…
Read MoreSoft Skills IT Professionals Should Acquire
Having strong resumes in the Information Technology field is obviously imperative to nabbing IT jobs. However, having some key soft skills carries a surprising amount of weight in the interview process for IT managers and IT recruiters. While the value of these soft skills is different depending on the IT recruiting companies and jobs, the…
Read MoreProfessional Failure in IT
Failure actually holds a high place in information technology. IT professionals are constantly testing programs, code, potential solutions, etc. Every time a test fails, IT consultants learn something. IT contractors and IT managers could also learn quite a bit from embracing failure as professionals, too. Having pristine resumes certainly attracts IT recruiters and lands jobs…
Read MoreHow to Be a Better IT Leader
The most prized IT professionals that IT recruiters want to work with are the ones with not only stellar resumes, but stellar leadership skills. Because the information technology field is overrun with project-based work, IT managers often prefer to use teams to accomplish tasks. IT contractors that can effectively lead their teams to success are…
Read MoreShould IT Professionals Shake Hands During Cold and Flu Season?
IT recruiters and IT professionals from Boston to Los Angeles are finding themselves in the midst of cold and flu season. While there are plenty of issues that come with cold and flu season, one of the most surprising is dealing with handshakes. Everyone in the Information technology field, from IT headhunters to IT managers…
Read MoreKeeping Your Speech Professional at Your IT Job
IT professionals tend to work behind the scenes in less formal settings, but even those who do can make missteps in their speech and hurt their professional reputations with their IT recruiters, IT managers, or coworkers. Below are a few things for IT contractors to avoid and suggestions to improve the way they communicate at…
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