Posts Tagged ‘technical recruiter’
“Bob” – The Bane of IT staffing companies
Information technology has always had plenty of room for procrastination and general wasting of time. Productivity becomes difficult for IT managers to monitor when IT consultants spend most of their time on the computer. IT headhunters are often concerned about how disciplined an IT consultant might be, as they face the very real siren call…
Read MoreSubmit Your Resume to An IT Recruiter or Client?
You see an IT job posting for a company that you’re very interested in working for – then you see the same position posted by various IT recruiting companies. Who do you submit your resume to and do you submit to mulitple IT recruiters. The answer might surprise you. Submit your resume to the technical recruiter at…
Read MoreIT Recruiters Are Like Sports Agents
Ok, it’s a bit of a stretch, but you can draw a parallel between IT recruiters and sports agents. Here are a three similarities between technical recruiters and movie/sports agents: 1) Technical recruiters Boston represent their clients: Whether an IT job seeker or a movie or sport star, you’re being represented by someone with a…
Read MoreFinding the Balance of Contacting IT Recruiters
IT recruiters speak with hundreds of candidates each week. Therefore, it’s imperative that information technology professionals keep in touch with their short-list of technical recruiters and their respective IT staffing companies Boston. However, where is the line? On one hand, you need to make sure you’re the first person a technical recruiter calls when they receive…
Read MoreIT Recruiting Companies Debate: K Cups or Ground Coffee
Quantity Are you brewing for the entire IT staffing office or just yourself? If you are brewing coffee at smaller quantities, you will want to go with the Keurig. The K cup machine provides the option to brew one cup without holding up the coffee machine for other technical recruiters. Coffee drip machines are made…
Read MoreTechnical Recruiters Warn: The Flu Season Approaches
As the temperature drops, fevers rise. From October through the month of May, flu season raises its ugly head to spite IT recruiting offices throughout the Northeast. When IT recruiters find they are the victim of the plague, should they be the office heroes or stay curled up in bed? Here are some reasons why…
Read MoreIT Recruiting is not Day Care
Hey technical recruiters! Do you trust your IT contractors? Are you confident your candidates can make the right decisions on their own? Some IT recruiters feel it is necessary to walk their clients through the IT staffing process, which is completely acceptable. What is not acceptable is talking down to your contractors, holding their hand,…
Read MoreIT Staffing Woes: The Language Barrier
Working in the IT recruiting industry, technical recruiters are bound to face the near inevitable. You discover resumes of the most talented candidates with the near perfect background and experience and reach for the phone. You begin to explain why you are calling, talking about a potential IT job, when the person on the other end…
Read MoreIT Staffing Companies Take On Boston
IT recruiters Boston not only share the benefit of working with different clients and building networks, but they also have the city at their fingertips. Technical recruiting companies should take advantage of what the city has to offer. Here are some suggestions to have fun outside the offices of IT staffing agencies. History One of…
Read MoreSeeking a…Client? Part I
It seems coffee meetings are the go to from catching up with business or friends to first dates and meeting with new IT staffing clients. At first glance, comparing the IT recruiting business with dating might seem entirely wrong, but when you think about it the processes are pretty similar. They both involve finding “the…
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