Imagine you’re buying a house. On your first visit, a realtor shows you a spacious place with amazing features in a great neighborhood. You love it! Do you continue your search, trying to prove without a doubt that it’s the best option? Or do you make an offer immediately, trying…...
Mastering the IT Job Search: Why It’s All About Who You Know
So, you have a stellar resume, polished online portfolio, and a laundry list of skillsets – but aren’t having any luck connecting with your dream positions. What gives? It’s a reality that many IT job seekers are familiar with, and the answer lies in one incredibly broad buzzword: Networking. Even…...
A Candidate Pipeline Helps a Business Run Smoothly
Human resources and recruitment professionals play a vital part in filling roles for your business; with a well-maintained candidate pipeline, you can find the right people before you even need them. If you've got a job opening, you want it filled fast. It may be a new position or an…...
IT Consultant Connection Update
Click HERE (PDF) to view our IT Consultant Connection Newsletter. The only National IT Association, TechServe Alliance provides informative and valuable IT industry and job market data. Look for a new update each quarter....
The Top Tech Factors Shaping Tomorrow’s Desired Skill Sets
Take a peek inside the recruiter's crystal ball to see what’s on the tech horizon. When you're working in the IT sector, your skills have to evolve as quickly as the field itself... if you want to stay ahead, that is. 2017 saw the usual stellar progress, and Moore's Law…...
Why Employee Satisfaction Isn’t the Right Metric
Smart companies know that employee engagement leads to higher retention, profits, and growth. With 40 percent of employers worldwide struggling to fill IT jobs, companies have gone above and beyond to keep their talent happy, dangling free day care, company cars, and liberal vacation policies. But research shows that these…...
Freelance IT Employees and the 1099 Revolution
If you aren’t considering freelancers, you’re missing the IT recruiting boat. Businesses can fail, bosses can be abusive, co-workers incompetent. We don’t think about it this way, but when a person accepts a job, they’re putting themselves at even more risk than the company that hired them. It means turning…...
Workplace Tech Trends for 2018
The projected practices set to take off in the coming year. Playing games and not showing up for work. Sounds like everything that could destabilize the world of employment, right? Not so. These tech-based practices are transforming work into a place that people want to be, and a job into…...
Ageism in Tech: Why It’s Pervasive and What to Do About It
Maybe it’s not more pervasive, but only more obvious. Gender. Race. Class. Companies – especially in the tech field – spend a lot of time talking about the importance of creating ways to close the gap with diversity and inclusion programs. They’re searching for ways to attract a broad mix…...
Don’t Burn Out Your IT Stars
How to keep your IT staff at their best. “Loss of drive, determination, and enjoyment.” Those are the retiring words of one of the greatest running backs the NFL has ever seen, Barry Sanders – in the prime of his career, no less. Regardless of how amazing our jobs are,…...