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- Technical Recuiters Who Don't Fully Read Resumes
- I'm sure this topic has come up time and time again and has been the source of many threads, but here is my 2 cents on this matter. Lately, I've seen an increase in the amount of unsolicited emails from I.T. recruiters...aka...headhunters. I'm personally annoyed at all the...
- Tags: career, e-mail, headhunters, job, recruiter, recruiters, Why Me Worry?
- Discussion threads 2007-02-27
- Only Daily
- I get contacted about "fabulous carreer moves" in L.A., New York, GA, etc pretty much daily. They have gone so far as to suggest that I build in the cost to fly in and out into my rate. The best was an opportunity (3 months) in Anchorage... during...
- Tags: green card, wonderful opportunity
- Discussion threads 2006-09-08
Additional Resources
- Five tools to simplify your job search, resume blasts
- OSX?Anyone know of and can recommendsuch a tool for OSX?Resume blastingDoesn't work.I know I tried it.I used a service which sent my resume to 300 headhunters. Most of them had automated responses. I got no hits directly from the blast. I did get hits by looking at the list of...
- Tags: career, job, job search, OSX, Tony K, tool
- Discussion threads 2005-02-02
- 10 things you should know about creating a resume for a high-level IT position
- Know your marketThe first thing in your list should be "KNOW YOUR MARKET" ..... Item number 7 (Seek advise from managers ...) is the key item.I'll use Toronto as an example. As you've hinted ... managers and headhunters internal or otherwise ... are looking for different things. You've explained what...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, information technology, PMP'sicle, headhunter, Human Resources
- Discussion threads 2007-07-26
- Headhunters
- Ok, I'm sure this title has been used 100 times on here already, but being a headhunter myself, I'd like to make a few points. 1. Only about 20% of the positions in companies are actually posted, whether it's on the web, newspaper, forums, newsgroups, or what-have-you. The other...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, cmwprod@..., job, headhunter, recruiter, job order
- Discussion threads 2007-05-18
- The pros and cons of a functional resume
- An Older Job Seeker Should Use OneA job seeker that has been working for many years for some different companies should seriously consider use of a functional resume. It highlights their specific skills and accomplishments independent of where they did them. Following this with a brief chronology can...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, temmerth@...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-17
- Campaigning for the Empowerment of Women in IT in Zambia
- Barbara Munyati is one of Zambia's rare female success stories. As a lecturer in Computer Sciences at the University of Zambia, she is amongst the few women in her country who have a responsible job, and she is often approached by headhunters to work for rival organisations. Barbara understands the...
- Tags: Women, Information Technology, Empowerment, Cisco Systems Inc., Barbara Munyati, Barbara, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources
- Case studies
- HeadHunter 2000 (exe)
- HeadHunter 2000 is a recruiting software for headhunters, recruiters, and placement professionals. HeadHunter 2000 was developed with the recruiter's needs in mind: track candidates' information, including type of job sought, education, experience, relocation, and salary requirements; track job orders; track send-outs, interviews, and placements. Other featuers include: powerful search engine,...
- Tags: Job, Phone, Recruiting, HeadHunter 2000, Recruitment & Selection, Keyboards, Telecom & Utilities, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Peripherals
- Software downloads 2007-12-10
- Advice is greatly appreciated
- Advice is greatly appreciatedHello. A friend recommended this site to me so I just recently joined. I’m looking for any advice from the IT world on how to get into this business. Next fall I will be graduating with a B.S. in Information Technology and wanted to...
- Tags: career, information technology, job, snorider
- Discussion threads 2005-03-09
- I hate headhunters. Let's get rid of them.
- I hate headhunters. Let's get rid of them.This isn't a sales pitch. I know you don't believe me. I'm still an IT person with an idea, and I want to talk to some other IT people about it. But it sounds like a sales pitch, I...
- Tags: job, headhunter, j.penney@..., career, sales
- Discussion threads 2005-01-26
- The pros and cons of a functional resume
- Functional resumes focus on a person's skills and experience, rather than on his chronological work history. (Here is an example of a functional resume.) You would use a functional resume for a couple of reasons: Your background is varied and doesn't add up to a focused career path You want to move...
- Tags: Job, Toni Bowers
- Blog posts 2007-08-16
- IT job - where to post?
- My colleague is looking for places where he can broadly and affordably put an IT job posting, including mailing lists, etc. This is for a school of law. They found TEKNOIDS (law-specific) and SIGUCCS higher ed IT consortium already. However, we think the job ad doesn't have to be...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, ranti.junus@..., job, job board, IT job, information technology
- Discussion threads 2007-07-18
- The three stages of a tech career
- Stage one - You don't know much You are in awe of all the other techs. You make a lot of dumb mistakes. You feel like you are swamped all the time. You have to read a lot before you dare try anything for...
- Tags: Tech, Corporate Governance, Professional Development, Benefits, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Career, Human Resources, Tim Malone
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Job fairs rebuttal: The ten 'real' truths
- Job fairs are portrayed as one of the magic cures for job hunters, but they're actually nothing but a distraction that sucks up people's energy. On the surface, Terryn Barill's recent column seems to illuminate the myths surrounding job fairs. Off the bat, I agree with Barill completely: Job fairs...
- Tags: job, Nick Corcodilos
- Technical articles 2003-07-08
- Online job boards: Boon or boondoggle?
- According to a recent TechRepublic column, online job sites are a bust. But several members said that they've had success with the boards. Here's what they have to say about using online job sites.IT pros use a number of methods for finding a job, from the traditional classified ad search...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Dana Norton, job, board, job board
- Technical articles 2002-04-12
- TechRepublic members sound off on recruiters
- When a writer said, "Be wary of headhunters," it generated a lot of response from TechRepublic members. Some said, "Right on," while others said the writer missed the mark.Recruiters are a fact of life for today’s IT consultants and independent contractors, whether or not they use them regularly. It’s fair...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Advertising & Promotion, Jennifer Recktenwald, recruiter, Huckabee
- Technical articles 2000-08-16
- is MCSE worth it?
- is MCSE worth it in this days_? i was planning to take the mcse 2003 but i dont know if is worth taking, since the pay is to low.If pay scale is one of the factors whether to take the cert,then I would say look into other options.Yes certification is...
- Tags: certification, Enrique Corona, foot, windows, world experience
- Q&A 2005-12-27
- How to map out a post-layoff job hunt
- As one 'let go' CIO relates, job hunting isn't easy these days. Find out from his job-search experience what works, what doesn't, and what tomorrow's laid-off execs need to be prepared for.Bob Jones wasn’t shocked when he lost his job as CIO of Moore & Company in Forest Hills, IL,...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Bob Weinstein, Bob Jones, job
- Technical articles 2002-01-23
- Do you use Google to conduct "stealth background checks" on job candidates?
- I just came across an article in BusinessWeek Online thatexamines the potential backlash of blogging indiscretions. It cites variouscases where individuals found their reputations compromised by some salaciouspersonal tidbit that had made its way to the Web--often via their own brashblog posts. The article, "You Are What You Post,"also discusses...
- Tags: Google Inc., job
- Blog posts 2006-03-20
- Strategies for helping internal recruiters bring in the right hires
- Your company may want HR staff to help you fill IT positions, but if these recruiters aren't well versed in needed skill sets, the effort often fails. These strategies for working with internal recruiters should help you find the right person for the job.Trying to recruit IT staff with the...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, strategy, David Southgate, recruiter, Louis Avalos
- Technical articles 2002-04-30
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