Posts Tagged ‘IT staffing agencies’
Ready to Start Hiring? Do These 2 Things!
When you’re working with IT recruiting agencies to fill your open IT jobs, there are two major components to consider: evaluating candidates to make sure they’re the best fit for the job and making sure you sell your team and corporate culture to the best candidates. Of course, IT recruiting firms will help you achieve…
Read MoreAvoid Asking Illegal Interview Questions
IT recruiters find that even when employers are experienced at interviewing to fill IT jobs, they may still wind up mistakenly asking illegal questions. In fact, a recent study shows that 1 in 5 employers asks illegal questions when they’re interviewing. While asking these questions doesn’t automatically mean you’ll get sued, IT staffing agencies would…
Read More2 Ways Candidates Blow Job Interviews
IT recruiting agencies have heard some interviewing horror stories from IT professionals and interviewers alike. Sometimes even when candidates have prepped and studied the technologies their IT recruiters recommended, things can still happen that make it hard (or impossible) to land the job. The worst stories technical recruiters hear are about the times candidates blow…
Read MoreHow to Answer This Tough Job Interview Question
Technical recruiters find that IT professionals are often stumped by one question in a job interview: how would you improve our company, product, website, etc? If this question stumps you, here are some interview tips IT staffing firms would suggest trying. 1. Practice answering this question. It might be obvious, but IT recruiting agencies would suggest…
Read More2 Surprising Questions for Job Interviews
If you’ve worked with IT recruiting agencies to find new roles, you probably understand that interviewing for IT jobs is a two-way street. You probably ask a lot of interview questions to help you make sure the IT jobs you’re interviewing for are good fits for your needs and work habits. If you want to…
Read MoreIs Your Resume in The Wrong Format?
Technical recruiters receive resumes from IT professionals that are built from all kinds of resume templates. Most resume templates are fine (even the free resume templates), but there is one type of format that IT recruiters usually cannot use: a functional format resume. What is a functional format resume? It’s a resume that shows IT…
Read MoreDon’t Do This When Working With IT Recruiters
Technical recruiters find that some candidates will make some desperate moves to ensure they land IT jobs. Sometimes this means being a bit too pushy and overbearing in the interview. Sometimes this means trying to reach out directly to the hiring manager too much after the interview. Probably the worst mistake you can make when…
Read More2 Seemingly Small Things That Hurt Your Job Search
Sometimes IT recruiters find that candidates make mistakes that seem small, but actually have a big impact on their job search. Here are two mistakes that seem pretty insignificant, but will likely make it hard to land IT jobs. 1. Your email signature has an inflammatory or unprofessional quote. IT recruiting companies do find that…
Read MoreResume Too Long? 3 Easy Cuts to Make
Most IT staffing firms will concur that IT professionals don’t really need to adhere to the 1 or 2 page rule for their resumes. IT recruiters routinely work with candidates who have very long resumes, sometimes over 5 or 6 pages. However, IT staffing agencies’ best candidates aren’t always the ones with novel-length resumes. Technical…
Read MoreAre You Making This Huge Job Interview Mistake?
Technical recruiters see plenty of candidates who are perfectly suited for IT jobs but still don’t get them. Perhaps they don’t interview well, got nervous, or arrived very late. The most egregious mistake though, the one that makes IT staffing firms never want to work with a candidate, is when they act arrogant in job…
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