Posts Tagged ‘technical recruiters’
2 Reasons Not to Slow Down Your IT Job Search This Summer
With Memorial Day approaching, you may wonder if you should put your search for IT jobs on hold. Sometimes IT recruiters find that candidates are concerned that hiring will be slow, there won’t be many jobs, or they may just feel more tempted to spend the summer having fun outdoors. Here are two reasons IT…
Read MoreGet References That Will Land You IT Jobs
IT recruiters usually find that candidates have their resumes ready when they first start their job search. What many candidates don’t have ready to give their technical recruiters is a good list of references. Here are 2 tips for compiling a good list of references to share with your IT staffing firms. Make sure the references…
Read MoreBetter LinkedIn Profile Picture, Better IT Job Search
LinkedIn has become so important in the hunt for IT jobs that now many IT recruiters find candidates there, rather than other sites. While the format of a LinkedIn profile certainly differs from a resume, the picture may be the most obvious difference. Here are some tips on how to use your Linked profile picture…
Read More1 Way to Improve Your IT Resume
Here’s one straightforward way you can improve your resume to attract more IT recruiters and hiring managers: replace every bullet that starts with ‘responsible for’ with a professional achievement. Why aren’t ‘responsible for’ statements on your resume as attractive to IT staffing firms? Because these statements simply tell IT recruiting companies what the description is/was…
Read MoreDon't Ignore These in IT Job Interviews
Sometimes in interviews for IT jobs, hiring managers bring up concerns they have about your candidacy. It can be tempting to quickly wave off these concerns off, especially if they seem small or not legitimate to you. IT staffing firms would suggest you don’t ignore these, though. Here’s why you can’t wave off an interviewer’s concerns:…
Read MoreLeave This Off Your IT Resume!
When you polish up your resume to attract IT staffing firms, you may be tempted to create fancy tables or graphs to show your technical proficiencies or achievements. Perhaps you’ve even heard that these kinds of elements might make you stand out to IT recruiting firms and hiring managers. This is terrible advice, though. Here’s…
Read MoreDon't Let Tough Questions Sink You in IT Job Interviews
If you’re working with IT recruiting companies to find your next IT job, your IT recruiters will likely give you some idea of questions to prepare for before interviews. Even with plenty of practice and research, most IT professionals do encounter some questions that are just uncomfortable to answer. For instance, IT recruiting agencies often…
Read MoreMake Time To Practice This Before IT Job Interviews
As you prep for job interviews, here’s one way to give yourself an advantage: practice speaking about a professional achievement in a brief, but comprehensive way. Here’s how IT staffing firms would recommend you do this. IT recruiting agencies would suggest you start by identifying some of your major professional achievements. These might be obvious,…
Read More4 Steps to Landing an IT Job that Makes You Happy
As you interview for IT jobs, your top concern is likely whether you are prepared for and/or can succeed at the kind of programming, debugging, troubleshooting, etc that the role requires. While IT recruiters would definitely advise asking questions about the scope of the work the role will require, it’s also important to think about…
Read MoreThis May Be the Most Important Part of Your IT Resume to Update
Often, when IT recruiters and hiring managers are looking over resumes to fill IT jobs, they don’t have the time to really scrutinize them in detail. If you’re an IT professional who may want to attract technical recruiters to help in your job search, this means you need to make it easy for IT staffing…
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