IT unemployment trends have often bucked overall national numbers throughout the recession and recovery, and hiring forecasts for IT in 2012 suggest that competition for experienced IT professionals with in demand skills (e.g., Java, .Net, mobile and app developers, software and system engineers) will only grow fiercer. As my colleague Jeff Monaghan reported in Are […]
The overall unemployment number is stubbornly high. Somewhere around 9%. There are lot’s of people out of work and many job seekers have applied to hundreds of jobs with no luck. The stories of difficult times are everywhere. Well, almost everywhere. Technology workers seem to have gone basically unaffected by the current recession. The US […]
Finding the perfect IT staffing firm can be a daunting task. Where to start? Who to talk to? What is fair pricing? These are all questions that may not have simple answers.
Over the past few weeks, while I wrote about job creation and career development, others were writing as well. I am at the 2011 TechServe Alliance Conference and Tradeshow in Phoenix this week, which leaves me with less time than usual to share my own views. Instead, I thought I’d share a few articles that […]
So you landed a great job. It’s at a great company with good pay and awesome coworkers. The commute is even ideal. It’s everything you ever hoped for, except for one thing. It’s a contract job. You are not what is considered a permanent employee of the company. You are an employee of a contract staffing […]
Most job seekers are all too familiar with how competitive the market is these days. In order to be noticed in today’s crowded field, candidates must work harder than ever and employ a variety of tools and best practices. Resumes should be carefully tailored for each opportunity, persistence and follow up are critical, technology abounds, […]
Jobs, jobs, jobs. It continues to be the hot topic with discussions on a variety of job related issues happening everywhere from the boardroom to the campaign trail to the dinner table. Two headlines caught my eye recently: