IT professionals, IT recruiters, and IT managers can all do a lot to positively impact their office and people’s impressions of them in the information technology world. Sometimes these things are big, like projects you list on resumes. Sometimes, however, small, simple acts can leave the biggest impression on IT contractors or IT headhunters. The … Read More > Small and Effective Ways To Distinguish Yourself in IT
Information technology is certainly stands apart from most fields in most ways. However, there is one commonality that it tends to share with other professional fields: its happiest employees are generally its most valuable. Happy IT consultants are not just pleasant to work with, they also get a lot more work done for IT managers … Read More > Cyclical Happiness in IT
IT managers have a myriad of dreaded conversations with their IT contractors. Perhaps the most dreaded conversation, though, is when employees ask for a raise. While IT recruiting firms certainly try to negotiate the best salary possible for IT consultants upon entry of a new job, over time this amount will almost certainly become less … Read More > Managers: How to Respond to Requests for a Raise
IT recruiters Boston and IT recruiters CA are used to hearing about start-ups from Israel, Silicon Valley, and most recently, Russia. However, IT recruiting firms and IT contractors will soon be hearing a lot about start-ups from Berlin. The information technology field has already seen a slow rise in German start-ups for a few reasons. … Read More > IT’s new Silicon Valley: Berlin
In a struggle to keep up with the constantly changing demands of the information technology field, universities are creating new educational programs to create IT professionals ready to participate in the hottest areas, such as Big Data. IT recruiters will able to select from pools of IT contractors with new degrees in very current areas, … Read More > Education Strives to Keep Up with IT
IT recruiting firms, IT managers, and IT consultants are all still discussing a surprising topic: national policy. IT staffing agencies and other IT professionals, even those as influential as Mark Zuckerberg, began a heated conversation about H-1B workers several months ago as the nation considered significantly increasing the number of H-1B visas allowed per year. … Read More > IT Raises its Presence in a Surprising Arena
The best companies to work for are the ones where “service with a smile” isn’t just a façade for customers or clients, it’s natural. This is especially true of companies in information technology because it so often ends up being more of a “back of the house” industry where grumpy IT consultants could easily hide … Read More > Building a Positive IT Team
IT jobs are certainly not meant to be proverbial lily pads. However, in a tough economy with an even tougher economy behind us, IT recruiters and IT managers are exercising more leniency towards so-called “Job Hoppers.” While IT staffing agencies would not consider resumes full of short stints ideal, they are far less likely to … Read More > Job Hopping in IT
IT headhunters would certainly pinpoint generations X and Y as controversial generations to hire for IT jobs. There are plenty of prominent complaints IT recruiters get about generation X and Y IT professionals. However, the generation IT staffing firms have a hard time getting a consensus on is actually the baby boomer generation. Plenty of … Read More > IT Recruiting by the Numbers
IT staffing companies and IT consultants are seeing a trend that feels incongruous in today’s job market: more perks at tech companies. In an economy with unemployment rates at an uncomfortably high amount, pay cuts everywhere, and people being forced to double-up on job responsibilities, the information technology industry is booming and working hard to … Read More > IT Perks are Growing Despite a Bad Economy