Posts Tagged ‘resumes’
Pull Your Head Out of the Sand and Get in the Social Media Game
Information technology, more than in any other field, is not the place to lack presence on social media. Whether you are IT professionals or a company with plenty of IT jobs, it’s imperative to make sure you put forth an image of yourself on social media. IT recruiting companies, IT consultants, and IT managers cannot…
Read MoreTo Be (a College Student) or Not to Be (in IT)?
Information technology became an early adopter of a debate that is now interesting to far more than IT professionals: Is College necessary at all? IT recruiters nationwide, from IT recruiters CA to IT recruiters Boston have plenty of successful examples of successful people who didn’t graduate college, including Mark Zuckerberg. IT headhunters can vouch for…
Read MoreWhat College Grads Should Do As They Enter IT
With recent graduates getting ready to step into the information technology field, IT recruiters can be a great source of advice for how to be the best IT contractors they can be. IT recruiting agencies would prefer to work with IT professionals who embrace the professional, 9-5 life. This means IT headhunters look for people…
Read MoreFailing in IT? It's Ok!
IT recruiters CA to IT recruiters Boston tend to subscribe to the conventional wisdom about failure: avoid it. But technical recruiters and IT professionals should seriously re-think their concept of failure. As the founder of Linked In, Reid Hoffman, is now advocating in his new book, failure is merely an opportunity to learn in your…
Read MoreSmall and Effective Ways To Distinguish Yourself in IT
IT professionals, IT recruiters, and IT managers can all do a lot to positively impact their office and people’s impressions of them in the information technology world. Sometimes these things are big, like projects you list on resumes. Sometimes, however, small, simple acts can leave the biggest impression on IT contractors or IT headhunters. The…
Read MoreCyclical Happiness in IT
Information technology is certainly stands apart from most fields in most ways. However, there is one commonality that it tends to share with other professional fields: its happiest employees are generally its most valuable. Happy IT consultants are not just pleasant to work with, they also get a lot more work done for IT managers…
Read MoreIT's new Silicon Valley: Berlin
IT recruiters Boston and IT recruiters CA are used to hearing about start-ups from Israel, Silicon Valley, and most recently, Russia. However, IT recruiting firms and IT contractors will soon be hearing a lot about start-ups from Berlin. The information technology field has already seen a slow rise in German start-ups for a few reasons. …
Read MoreEducation Strives to Keep Up with IT
In a struggle to keep up with the constantly changing demands of the information technology field, universities are creating new educational programs to create IT professionals ready to participate in the hottest areas, such as Big Data. IT recruiters will able to select from pools of IT contractors with new degrees in very current areas,…
Read MoreIT Raises its Presence in a Surprising Arena
IT recruiting firms, IT managers, and IT consultants are all still discussing a surprising topic: national policy. IT staffing agencies and other IT professionals, even those as influential as Mark Zuckerberg, began a heated conversation about H-1B workers several months ago as the nation considered significantly increasing the number of H-1B visas allowed per year.…
Read MoreBuilding a Positive IT Team
The best companies to work for are the ones where “service with a smile” isn’t just a façade for customers or clients, it’s natural. This is especially true of companies in information technology because it so often ends up being more of a “back of the house” industry where grumpy IT consultants could easily hide…
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