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5 Network Security Best Practices and How Professional Services Can Help Jul 10

With malware and hacks becoming larger threats, businesses must stay hyper-vigilant about network security. Data breaches and other network security threats hit the headlines with an increasing degree of regularity. No business is immune. But you can help protect your data and the information of your clients and customers with a fresh start and a renewed commitment to policy and best practices. …

How to Turn a Rejected Job Offer Into a Hiring Plus May 25

In every hiring manager’s life, a sad little rain must fall. But if you capture it, you can water the garden of candidates to help it bear more happy fruit in the future. …

Which is Better: An Active or Passive Candidate? May 09

Active job candidates are engaged in the hunt. Passive candidates are probably not looking at all. That should mean that you’d have better luck pursuing active candidates to fill open positions, but it’s not always the case. …

If You Want a New Engineering Job, Try These 4 Cities Apr 24

Industries tend to gravitate toward and settle into certain parts of the country. Detroit is known for vehicles. Pittsburgh has its steel. As for STEM workers, specifically engineers, the U.S. has several pockets where opportunity, compensation and affordable living merge into a city worth thinking about. …

Want the best IT Job? Work with a Top IT Recruiter Apr 03

Do you want a recruiter or a super IT recruiter? If you’re in the market for your next IT job, a generalist might not be the best choice. Because IT isn’t one thing, but many things, recruiters need a skill set that’s both broad in connections and deep in knowledge. Find out why a recruiter contacted you. That’s how CIO recommends breaking the ice. From there, look for several clues that show it’s worth your time to follow through. …

IT Job Seekers Look Out: Pay in These 10 Cities Lags Behind Mar 27

Tired of chasing a great paycheck that's always out of reach? The city where you live and work partly determines whether your compensation is competitive or if it lags behind. A new study by Paysa reveals some genuine American stinkers. They examined millions of resumes and compared compensation, experience and other factors to location to arrive at their findings. …

4 LinkedIn Practices that Help the Best IT Jobs Find You Mar 20

Are you maximizing LinkedIn to help the best IT jobs find you? At its least, LinkedIn is a social platform that explains who you are and what you do for a living. At its best, it’s a dynamic, virtual CV that’s ripe with opportunities for networking and brand building, complete with professional endorsements and thought leadership. …

4 Reasons an IT Job Search is Never Really Over Mar 13

These days, you're more likely to find a forever car than a forever IT job. In fact, many people in the workforce today have only heard about lifetime careers as a musing or fun historical fact. It doesn’t work that way anymore, and maybe that’s a good thing.…

Why are You Looking for a New IT Job? Mar 06

Few events can give you a bigger case of nerves than an IT job interview. You'll wonder what to wear, worry about arriving on time and brace yourself for one of the trickiest questions of all: "Why are you looking for a new job?" Should you be completely honest? And if you are, might honesty wreck your chances of landing a dream job?…

Getting Your Job Search Back on Track Feb 03

So you wake up one day and realize that your IT job search has gone off the rails. Maybe you botched an interview, or you torched your relationship with your former boss, who is now bashing you when someone calls for a reference. Maybe you just took a long vacation and now it seems impossible to jump back in.…

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