Today is Employee Appreciation Day. While this may seem like a silly internet holiday, the message is pretty important for most tech employers. IT staffing agencies find that many candidates are often poached as passive candidates. Since it’s such a strong job seeker’s market for IT professionals, making sure employees feel appreciated on a regular … Read More > Employee Appreciation Day in the Tech Field
AVID is excited to announce that we’ve been recognized for our dedication to maintaining an excellent company culture. Read more about it here in the Wall Street Select. If you like what you read about our team, we’re hiring. We want to hear from you if you’re an interested in jump-starting your career in sales. Simply … Read More > AVID Made it onto Entrepreneur’s Top Company Cultures 2017 List!
If you’re seeking a new role in an area of the tech field you don’t have much experience in, there are ways to make you a more appealing candidate to IT recruiters anyway. Whether you’re looking to land your first Helpdesk role, or you want to move from Desktop support to a Network Engineer role, … Read More > Land IT Jobs You Don’t Have the Experience For (Yet)
If you’re a job seeker, you’ve probably been contacted by or come across fake recruiter scams before. Scammers will often find your information on job boards or LinkedIn. When you’re looking for IT jobs, you don’t have to be vulnerable to these scammers, though. Here are 3 tips for how to weed out fake IT … Read More > How to Avoid Fake Recruiter Scams
Many IT professionals are resistant to contracting. However, when you’re looking for new roles, IT recruiters would strongly suggest that you consider contracting roles. Especially in the tech field, contracting can have a lot of benefits that permanent roles don’t. Here are 3 reasons why IT staffing firms suggest you seriously consider contracting in your … Read More > Why Consider Contracting Roles?
Help Desk jobs are slated to be one of the most common jobs that IT recruiters will be filling this year. IT staffing firms will get a lot of Help Desk roles to fill for two reasons. Firstly, there’s plenty of turnover in the field (often because of people moving up into new phases of … Read More > This Will Land You Help Desk Jobs in 2017
Is one of your new year’s resolutions to invest in your career with a new certification? The most valuable one to get in 2017 will be an AWS certification. Here are a few reasons why IT recruiters suggest you consider going after one this year. 1. You’ll make more money. AWS certified professionals often make … Read More > The Best Certification to Get in 2017
If you’re thinking about a coding boot camp, you’re not alone. IT staffing companies have seen an explosion in boot camp popularity in the last few years. IT recruiters certainly find that many candidates seeking new IT jobs (especially their first programming roles) have a boot camp on their resumes. The questions is, are they … Read More > How to Pick a Good Coding Boot Camp
If you’ll be graduating from college this spring, you could benefit from calling IT staffing agencies this month. While it may seem too early, there are a few things that good IT recruiting firms can do for you so you’re even more prepared to land great IT jobs when you graduate. Help with your resume. … Read More > Graduating in May or June? Recruiters Can Help You Now
It may seem like Java is long overdue to be a less imperative skill for IT recruiting firms and employers. There are newer, more exciting languages out there. IT staffing companies find that many developers tend to prefer languages like Python or C++ for the projects they work on outside of their formal IT jobs. Perhaps … Read More > Java Developers: Your Value is Rising in 2017