Blog Elements

Half Sized Blog Element (Single Author Style)

Half Sized Blog Element (Multi Author Style)

Information Technology – IT’s human energy crisis

June 10, 2010/0 Comments/in Information Technology, Information Technology Field, Information Technology Organizations, IT, IT Department, IT Field, IT Job News, IT Staffing, IT talent, Technology/by admin

An essential question for all IT leaders to ponder is whether their IT organization is exothermic — one that releases positive energy) or endothermic — one that sucks energy out of the enterprise) Word association time: When I say "IT energy," what do you think of? After everything that’s been written in the past couple […]

Job Tips and Job News – 5 Ways to Shine in Your Next Interview

June 10, 2010/0 Comments/in job search, Job Seekers, Job Tips, Uncategorized/by admin

By Beth Braccio Hering, CareerBuilder Writer In a tough job market, landing an interview is a major accomplishment. When such opportunity knocks, be ready to show why you’re the candidate to hire. Here are five tips that can help job seekers make a great impression. Do your homework Erika Milonas, director of campus recruitment for The […]

Information Technology – IT’s human energy crisis

Job Tips and Job News – 5 Ways to Shine in Your Next Interview

June 10, 2010/0 Comments/in job search, Job Seekers, Job Tips, Uncategorized/by admin

An essential question for all IT leaders to ponder is whether their IT organization is exothermic — one that releases positive energy) or endothermic — one that sucks energy out of the enterprise)

Word association time: When I say "IT energy," what do you think of? After everything that’s been written in the past couple of years about green IT and the amount of electricity that’s needed to power data centers, you probably think first about the cost of our profligate energy consumption.

Read more here

ProVisionTech Jobs – Dallas IT Jobs – Dallas Technical Jobs

"Save Time, The Best Resources, Guaranteed!"

Tags: IT department, Information Technology, IT workers

By Beth Braccio Hering, CareerBuilder Writer

In a tough job market, landing an interview is a major accomplishment. When such opportunity knocks, be ready to show why you’re the candidate to hire. Here are five tips that can help job seekers make a great impression.

Do your homework

Erika Milonas, director of campus recruitment for The McTigue Financial Group (part of Northwestern Mutual) in Chicago reviews more than 1,000 résumés a year and interviews about 400 candidates to choose 40 for the company’s internship program. With such competition, it would seem that interviewees would be incredibly prepared, but that isn’t always the case.

Milonas finds some candidates unable to answer the simple question, "What do you know about The McTigue Financial Group and Northwestern Mutual?" She calls failure to be able to discuss the company at this basic level a "deal breaker," regardless of how the rest of the interview went.

Since most businesses have websites, learning about a potential employer is relatively easy. Find out what the company does and its main products/services, and be familiar with recent developments in the industry.

Half Sized Blog Element (Single Author Style)

Half Sized Blog Element (Multi Author Style)

Full Sized Blog Element (Big Preview Pic)

An essential question for all IT leaders to ponder is whether their IT organization is exothermic — one that releases positive energy) or endothermic — one that sucks energy out of the enterprise)