Posts Tagged ‘IT staffing companies’
Review:"Technical Screening – SQL Server Developer"
Obi Ogbanufe’s Technical Screening – SQL Server Developer helps technical recruiters develop a more efficient technical screening process for vetting candidates. The book discusses how to compare a technical candidate’s skills and background to the technical role requirements, and use cues in a candidates’ technical resume to best determine a match. One challenge Ogbanufe identifies…
Read MoreReview: "Hiring The Best Knowledge Workers, Techies & Nerds: The Secrets & Science Of Hiring Technical People"
Technical recruiters are in the business of hiring for technical jobs. Their area of expertise is finding the best technical candidate for an open job position, and building relationships with the best techies on the market leads to success in the technical staffing industry. IT firms specialize in the “secrets & science” of hiring top…
Read MoreReview: "The Google Resume: How to Prepare for a Career and Land a Job at Apple, Microsoft, Google, or any Top Tech Company"
Technical recruiters know that a technical candidates’ resume speaks volumes. Thus the ability to separate power resumes from weaker ones is key. IT recruiters who are familiar with The Google Resume will be doing themselves favor when is comes to identifying strong technical resumes (and the candidates behind the resume). Gayle McDowell instructs technical candidates…
Read MoreReview: "Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky's Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent"
In the Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent, Joel Spolsky details the steps that go into interviewing top technical talent, and into finding that quality of technical candidates in the first place. He goes into the technical hiring process, how to extract information from tech-savvy candidates on their potential technical efficiency levels. He…
Read MoreSecrets for Making your Recruiter your Best Friend
In today’s job search environment, recruiters often play an instrumental role in a candidates job search, whether the job is in the medical, financial or technical industry, or the position sought is contract or permanent. The reason is that recruiters spend each work day doing for a living what candidates do only during periods of…
Read MoreWhat Not to Wear to IT Job Interviews
You have heard it before: it matters deeply what you wear to an interview. Now that you have your outfit together, are you breaking one of the interviewing apparel taboos? Take a second look at your outfit and accessories. Make sure you aren’t sending some inappropriate messages with your choices! Head Unless you are trying out…
Read MoreBlogging about Technical Recruiting Companies
You had a rough day at the IT recruiting office. Then you come home and are greeted by the blinding light of your laptop. You open WordPress and immediately pour your heart out about the unfair raise other technical recruiters were rewarded while you were overlooked. Or perhaps you go on a rant about the…
Read MoreIT Recruiting Advice: Write Your Thoughts Down!
In the IT staffing industry, there are peaks of booming activity, which is great for technical recruiters and IT consultants. But is there so much activity that IT headhunters have a habit of forgetting what needs to be done or letting tasks slip through the cracks? Technical recruiting companies might be so busy, that you…
Read MoreIs the Grass Always Greener with the Other IT Jobs?
Do you find that you hate your current job and wish you never left your prior position? Are you always on the prowl for new, better IT recruiting opportunities? Stop yourself right in your tracks. If you are constantly seeking new roles without the proper research, you will be in this situation more often than…
Read MoreTechnical Recruiters, Are You Getting Enough Sleep?
Life is too short to sleep away nights and mornings, but if you do not get enough sleep you could be ending your life too soon. IT headhunters often pride themselves on lack of sleep and view those who indulge in the recommended eight hours as lazy or incompetent. Before you shave off that extra…
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