Posts Tagged ‘technical recruiters’
Change in the IT World: Necessary and Risky
Facebook’s changes this week certainly haven’t gone unnoticed by IT recruiters or the rest of the world. While analyses on the details of these changes vary, the consensus seems to be one that the information technology world, and thus technical recruiters and IT consultants, have long understood: Change is key to staying relevant, but it…
Read MoreIT Recruiters: The Best Way to Avoid Multiple Job Interviews
The information technology field has yielded yet another new reason for IT contractors to work with IT staffing firms: avoiding an endless parade of job interviews. IT recruiting firms build relationships with their clients that yield a more streamlined job interview and hiring process. With the new trend of IT consultants going on 6, 7,…
Read MoreIs Cutting Telecommuting in the IT Field A Blow to Women and Families?
Yahoo’s recent anti-telecommuting decision has thrown the practice into the spotlight, but IT recruiters have been debating its merits for years. IT staffing firms are often given IT jobs to fill that provide options for IT consultants to telecommute. The benefits are numerous for IT staffing companies, IT contractors, and companies. Costs are saved for…
Read MoreResumes: To Write, or to Have Written. That is the Question.
In an increasingly saturated information technology market, IT recruiters respond best to resumes that are crafted with extra care and attention to detail. Technical recruiters are not only looking for resumes that list previous job experience. Clean, efficiently-worded descriptions and well-utilized key words are really what make IT staffing firms pay attention to IT consultants…
Read MoreAmericans Aren't Convenient to Overlook in IT Field
Recently the news has noted quite a bit of American opposition to the H-1B reforms, especially in the information technology industry. IT contractors have been alleging that technical recruiters already have a track record of favoring alien workers over American workers to fill IT jobs (even when they should not be). IT staffing firms, they…
Read MoreOne Man's Hacker is Another Man's IT Professional
IT recruiting firms, like the rest of the world, might increasingly find themselves forced to reconsider their stances on hacking. IT staffing companies have already been dealing with IT contractors and consultants who may openly or covertly already hack in order to sharpen their own skills and value as potential hires. As a Bloomberg writer…
Read MoreMeetups: An Old-Fashioned Use for Technology in IT Recruiting
In a world saturated with technology, one of the job seeking methods that is rapildly-growing in popularity for IT consultants and IT recruiters is actually very old-fashioned: the meetup. Of course, the meetup is not entirely old fashioned. Advertised and arranged over the Internet, meetups are also full of technical recruiters and IT contractors exchanging information on their…
Read MoreCyber Warfare: Suiting Up for IT Battle
One niche area of information technology that IT recruiters are working with is Cyber Warfare. While the name might connote violence, IT staffing agencies are actually filling IT jobs that require either defending or attacking networks. Often attacking networks comes down to finding and exploiting software flaws, while defending them requires the opposite: finding and…
Read MoreTardiness in IT– Not So Straightforward
The IT job board, Careerbuilder, conducted a recent survey on tardiness to work illuminates some interesting trends, but it doesn’t tell the whole story for the nuances of what is acceptable in terms of tardiness for jobs in information technology. This year, the survey reports, over a third of hiring managers surveyed had to fire an employee…
Read MoreLeadership in IT: Just do "it"?
Information technology as a field offers a wide variety of leadership roles: Project manager, Lead programmer, etc. The obvious perks of these roles are higher salaries, more prestige, more intriguing work, and more benefits or vacation days, etc. However, does it ever make sense to turn one of these roles down, if offered? Or to ask…
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