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2 Tips for Your Thank You Notes For IT Job Interviews

After interviews for IT jobs, most IT professionals know they need to send a thank you note to their technical recruiters and IT staffing agencies to pass along to their interviewers.  Your IT recruiters and IT staffing firms may even give you some tips on what to include in these notes.  It’s imperative not to just scribble off a quick note, though!

Keep these 2 things in mind as you write your note. Firstly, make sure it doesn’t sound like a generic form letter.  Add in details that make the note stand out and really remind the interviewer of your time together.  A generic thank you note might be as useless as not giving any to your IT recruiting companies to present on your behalf.  Secondly, don’t forget to finish your thank you note with a strong reminder of why you’d be great for the job.  This is your final impression—your IT staffing companies and IT recruiting agencies probably won’t be able to say much more for you at this point.  So finish strong and leave a great final impression in your interviewer’s mind.

Wanting it Too Badly Can Kill Your IT Job Interviews

Interviews for IT jobs tend to be about two things: whether you have the technical skills and experience to do the job well and whether you have the personality to succeed well in the employer’s corporate culture.  Your IT recruiters and IT staffing agencies can give you insight into both of these categories.  In fact, your technical recruiters and IT staffing firms want you to know exactly what kind of candidate the employer is looking for.  However, even if you do your best to prep for both these categories, you can still hurt your chances by coming across as too needy.

Most IT recruiting firms and IT staffing companies would agree that it’s hard not to sound needy if you really want a job. There are some things that you can do, though to help yourself avoid giving this impression.  Firstly, keep in mind that your IT recruiting companies are likely keeping you in mind for other positions as well.  Secondly, to keep things in perspective, remember that if you don’t get hired for a position, it’s because a manager thinks you aren’t equipped to succeed in it.  Being in a job you’re failing at is much worse than being (temporarily) unemployed.  Lastly, take deep breaths, lay off the caffeine before the interview, and take good care of yourself the night before.  Be as relaxed as you can, because it’s only to your benefit.

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This Mistake Can Ruin Your IT Job Interviews

There are plenty of things you can do to prepare for interviews for IT jobs.  You can be ready to answer any questions that you or your IT recruiters and IT staffing firms can anticipate.  However, your IT staffing agencies and technical recruiters can’t help you fix basic behavioral issues for interviews.  Here’s one mistake you must make sure you’re not making: interrupting your interviewer.

Most IT recruiting companies and IT staffing companies would agree that it’s understandable if you mistakenly interrupted your interviewer once.  However, if you interrupt people a lot as a nervous habit, or just out of sheer impatience, this will make a very bad impression.  The best candidates, the kind that IT recruiting firms have no problem placing in jobs, are great listeners and communicators.  If you interrupt your interviewer, you’ll not only irritate them, but probably show that you aren’t likely able to communicate well with colleagues, managers, clients, etc.  Do yourself a favor and break this habit immediately—it probably has cost you IT jobs already!

 

Facial Piercings and IT Job Interviews

More and more IT professionals are facing an odd dilemma as they interview for IT jobs: what should they do about unconventional facial piercings.  As the millennial population rises in the IT field, IT recruiters and IT staffing firms are encountering more and more candidates with nose rings, eyebrow piercings, or ear piercings beyond the usual 2 at the bottom of the lobes.  What should technical recruiters and IT staffing companies tell candidates to do about these piercings when they go to interviews?  Is it better to hide them or take them out?

Candidates should make sure they check with their IT recruiting companies and IT staffing agencies before they go on interviews if they do have unconventional piercings.  Usually IT recruiting agencies will have a good idea about whether these companies are ok with piercings on a daily basis.  For most interviews, it’s best to hide the piercings.  Even if they’re accepted on a daily basis, it’s better not to stand out for something like a piercing.  If the company doesn’t accept piercings on a daily basis, it’s important for the candidate to really think hard about this before being submitted to the job.  While it may seem like a small thing, this may be indicative of a larger culture fit issue.  The candidate and their IT recruiting firms may want to re-visit how well they might fit into the corporate culture overall.

 

 

A New Way To Prep for IT Job Interviews

If you’re preparing for interviews for IT jobs, you’ve probably practiced answering questions with a friend or family member.  This is a good start, but there’s another way to practice for your interviews so that you impress your interviewer (and your IT recruiters and IT staffing companies!).  Try switching roles for a bit and play the interviewer. 

How do you do this?  Your technical recruiters and IT staffing agencies can give you a basic idea of what questions your interviewer will ask.  It’s also worth it to think about you’d want to know if you were hiring for this position.  As you practice from the interviewer role, you’ll force yourself to think about what kind of experience, skills, and personality traits your interviewer (and your IT recruiting agencies and IT staffing firms) want you to highlight.  You can think about what the ideal candidate would sound like.  Take that perspective with you to the interview—even if you don’t get the job, you’re bound to leave a lasting impression on your interviewers (and make your IT recruiting companies eager to continue to work with you!).

 

 

 

1 Important Thing To Do In IT Job Interviews

When you’re interviewing for IT jobs, it’s easy to think that your IT recruiters and IT staffing agencies will do most of the work for you.  While your technical recruiters and IT staffing companies will in fact do a lot to advocate for you, it’s crucial to remember that you have an important role.

When you interview, you’ll do yourself a disservice if you don’t make it obvious for your interviewers (and the IT staffing agencies and IT recruiting firms that are representing you) that you’re a good fit for the job.  While your experience and skills might seem like an obvious fit for a job (and your IT recruiting companies will definitely be making the case that you’re a good fit), nothing will speak as strongly for your candidacy as you will.  So make sure to go into interviews and state it clearly: that you’d be able to succeed in the position (and don’t forget to bring some anecdotes of previous success and achievement to illustrate this!).

 

Is Your Tech Resume Turning Off IT Recruiters and Hiring Managers?

The kind of resumes IT recruiters, IT staffing agencies, and, most importantly, hiring managers, love are efficient.  Resumes that show thoroughly but quickly that an IT professional has the experience and skills to succeed in IT jobs are the ones that IT staffing companies and technical recruiters all love to show hiring managers. IT recruiting firms and IT staffing firms don’t always want IT professionals to stick to the 1 page rule for resumes – even though it’s the norm in most other industries.  However, it is important that IT professionals really cut down their resume to only relevant and recent job experience and skills.

What does this mean?  The best resumes will not stretch beyond a page (or more!) to include experience from more than 15 years ago or experience that just isn’t really relevant to IT jobs.  When you stretch your resume out to, say, 7 pages to include experience from your earliest jobs, you may actually be turning off IT recruiting agencies.  Instead of being thorough by including extra experience, you’re actually making it harder for IT staffing firms to decide if you’re a good fit for a job.  They may well pass over your resume for one that is faster and easier to read.  The same is true if you’ve included jobs, hobbies, or other information on your resume that isn’t immediately and obviously relevant to the IT jobs you want to be considered for.  Especially if your resume exceeds a page, including this extra information may irritate IT recruiting companies rather than strengthen your candidacy.

 

 

How To List Gaps for Personal Reasons on Your IT Resumes

If the resume you give to IT staffing firms and IT recruiters has gaps between IT jobs for time you’ve taken with your family, you need to be careful how you document it.  Some IT professionals are given poor advice on how to list gaps in time and they wind up with resumes that technical recruiters and IT recruiting companies are not interested in.  How can you avoid turning off hiring managers and IT recruiting firms? Try to list this gap as briefly and professionally as possible.  Hiring managers and IT staffing agencies don’t want to see personal details. The best way to describe a gap is with brief, standardized professional phrasing.  For instance, giving the dates of your absence and calling it a ‘leave of absence’ is professional but still makes it clear you were not unemployed and unable to find work during a gap in time.  Some people will go overboard and try to list skills or responsibilities they took on during this time.  Don’t do this—you didn’t have a boss that you were accountable to, so these things can’t really be measured.  It also can come across as desperate to potential employers. If you’ve tried listing the gap a few ways, but are still unsatisfied with your ideas, ask the IT staffing companies you’re working with and trust to help you do it.  They will appreciate your effort to make your resume as appealing as possible to potential employers.

Not Looking for an IT Job? Don’t Hang Up On That IT Recruiter Yet!

If you’re not actively searching for IT jobs, it may feel like a waste of time to take phone calls from IT recruiters and IT staffing companies. Don’t rush to get off the phone with technical recruiters and IT recruiting agencies, though.  Even if you’re really satisfied with your current IT job, it’s worth making good relationships with IT recruiting firms you trust.

What should you do if you get a call from IT recruiting companies about jobs you’re not interested in?  Maintain a polite, professional air.  However, be honest with the IT staffing agencies you’re talking to.  If they’re good, they’ll want to know what kind of job you do want in the future.  Finish the call by letting them know you’re not interested for now, but you’ll keep their information.  Then, when you need to search for IT jobs, you’ll be ready and have IT recruiting firms on hand that you trust and already know what you want.

Don’t Say This Phrase in IT Job Interviews

IT recruiters and IT staffing companies will tell you a lot about what you should be saying in interviews for IT jobs.  However, it’s best if you don’t need your technical recruiters and IT recruiting firms to tell you what you shouldn’t be saying.  Here’s one phrase that you need to banish from your interviewing vocabulary: “hard-working”

If you already spend time selling yourself to hiring managers, IT recruiting firms, and IT staffing firms as “hard-working,” you’re not alone.  It seems like a good quality for success in any job—especially IT jobs that require perseverance to solve tough problems.  However, the problem is that this phrase is overused to the point of being meaningless.

It won’t impress your interviewers or the IT recruiting companies you’re represented by if you say that you’re hard-working because so many other candidates say this about themselves.  It’s better to use the time you would have spent talking about this to speak to some other asset.  Maybe you have experience using a few rare technologies or programming languages.  Maybe you have great customer service skills and can tell a few stories about satisfied end users.  These kinds of things will strengthen your candidacy much more than calling yourself “hard-working.”