Posts Tagged ‘resumes’
Are Your Emails Hurting Your IT Career?
In information technology, email is often the most commonly used way to communicate between IT consultants and their coworkers, clients, bosses, etc. If your emails aren’t done well, you could be communicating poorly with any of these people. Worse, you might be ruining your reputation with various IT recruiters and IT staffing firms (and thus…
Read MoreThings You Should Never Say In IT Job Interviews
IT recruiting firms will always put plenty of time into prepping IT consultants and their resumes for interviews for IT jobs. However, there are some things IT contractors need to do to prepare themselves on their own. Below are some of the things that technical recruiters may not warn you about, but you should never…
Read MoreDo You Have These Important Soft Skills for IT Professionals?
All IT jobs require particular technical skills, but they also require soft skills that are beyond the usual content of resumes. IT recruiters can all attest to the power of likability in IT professionals. IT managers will always pick the IT contractors who not only have the ability to do the job, but also have…
Read MoreThe Best Advice for Your IT Career That You’ve Never Heard
Most IT professionals are aware of the standard career advice. How to be professional, how to make sure their work is recognized, etc. However, the best career advice IT consultants can get, the advice that will make sure IT recruiters are always chasing them and they have their pick of IT jobs, is the advice…
Read MoreDo you Overshare at Your IT Job?
As open-plan offices increase in popularity, IT contractors and IT managers are all finding themselves experiencing—or perhaps becoming—a office oversharer. According to studies, more than 3 in 5 workers says they are dealing with people oversharing at work….
Read MoreShould You Accept that IT Job Offer?
For IT contractors, the leap to new IT jobs occurs a little more often. How should IT consultants evaluate a new job offer before accepting? Here are a few things IT professionals should ask themselves and their IT recruiters before filling out final paperwork. What are the IT managers styles? What’s the corporate culture like?…
Read MoreAre You a Trustworthy IT Professional?
In a field like information technology, where teamwork is often so imperative, trust becomes necessary between IT professionals and their coworkers and IT managers. IT recruiters can’t help IT consultants get IT jobs when they merely have perfect resumes. They must be the kind of employees and coworkers that everyone can really trust will get…
Read MoreWhy Starbucks' Tuition Program is Important to IT
Though they’re by no means the first company to do it, Starbucks has brought a lot of attention to the trend of companies paying for their employees’ college tuition. Programs like this bring a lot of attention to some hot-button issues, like the cost of college and the worth of a college degree, as well…
Read MoreAre Your IT Employees Thinking of Leaving?
The bane of most IT managers is attrition. Losing IT professionals hits a company hard, especially because the information technology industry in the US has far too few IT contractors and far too many IT jobs. How can managers make sure they don’t lose valuable employees? Pay attention to these important signs of unhappy IT…
Read MoreWhy a Bad Culture Fit Can Cost A Lot in IT
Good IT recruiters focus on making sure IT consultants are a great fit for IT jobs in terms of the skills on their resumes and in terms of personality. This isn’t just for the comfort of the IT managers these IT staffing companies work for, it’s for the productivity of the company itself! Recent studies…
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