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Secrets 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 MoreThe Mobile Job Search
The increasing sophistication of cloud computing and smartphone application suggest inevitable changes to come in the job-seeking landscape. With major job board websites like Monster, Careerbuilder, Indeed and Craigslist offering phone application versions of their sites, it’s a matter of time before job hunters adapt their search techniques to the advantages provided by advancing technology.…
Read MoreAre IT Recruiting Companies Using Twitter Properly?
IT staffing firms might be wondering what the purpose of using Twitter when their technical recruiters have Facebook or LinkedIn. If they are actively using Twitter, are they maximizing its benefits to the full potential? The IT recruiters of AVID Technical Resources are happy and willing to provide some valuable insight on how to make…
Read MoreAre IT Recruiting Agencies Spamming Clients?
In the IT recruiting business, the golden rule is to stay in touch with clients to create reoccurring customers. Technical recruiters do not want hiring managers or IT contractors to forget about them or think they do not care, so they reach out frequently to check in. While this is crucial in the IT staffing…
Read MoreIT Recruiting: Social Media Hindering Chances of Employment?
Most of us do not think twice when using Twitter to update statuses or post new profile pictures on Facebook. We routinely monitor our activity to keep pages clean and work friendly. But as a candidate, is your page being used against you? Technical recruiters, do you ensure not to discriminate when filling positions? IT recruiters and…
Read MoreIT Recruiting Tips: When You are Caught in a Lie
Technical recruiters search the web for candidates from sites such as Monster, CareerBuilder, and LinkedIn. When the resume of a prospective candidate catches their eye, they add it to their database and try to contact him for IT jobs. If an IT recruiter found out a contractor’s resume was falsified and skills were exaggerated, would…
Read MoreIT Recruiting Cues: Choosing Your References
Do Not Sell Yourself Short Chances are you have a number of skills, but when you choose only supervisors who witnessed your multitasking ability or worked with you on desktop maintenance you miss the chance to have others boast about your performance. Prove to technical recruiters that you are qualified by spicing up your reference…
Read MoreToo Personal in the IT Staffing Industry
Technical recruiters spend a majority of their day on the phone or meeting with potential candidates. They are around people constantly and typically spend more hours in the office than they do at home. When you work side by side with peers for at least forty hours a week your personal life is bound to…
Read MoreFirst Impressions in the IT Staffing Industry
IT recruiters use first impressions to determine their potential candidates for open IT jobs. Most IT staffing firms first engage in a phone screen to find applicants who can best communicate their skills and experience. If the phone interview goes well, the next steps are a submittal and possibly an in person interview. This interview…
Read MoreMirroring the Hiring Manager in the IT Staffing Industry
An IT headhunter enters an interview and prepares to do the skill he has learned in a number of classes, articles, and books…mirroring the hiring manager. The manager enters the room running behind schedule and forgets to extend a handshake. He immediately begins complaining about traffic, weather, and whatever is on his mind. The manager…
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