Top Emerging Tech Cities of 2022
Are you hoping to jumpstart your career in technology but don’t know where to look? With the pandemic ending, cities are opening back up and many people are headed back...
Which Cybersecurity Career Is Right for You?
Which Cybersecurity Career Is Right for You? Due to the pandemic, many businesses have shifted their operations online. While this has allowed teams to continue working despite the changes in…
2022 Guide to the Most in Demand Programming Languages
2022 Guide to the Most in Demand Programming Languages In our 2022 guide of the most in demand programming languages we deliver 10 of the most in demand programming languages…
2022 LinkedIn Profile Tips To Standout | 2022 Tips to Make Your LinkedIn Profile Standout
It is the goal of IT Resources Corp to help match people to the rewarding career they deserve. In today’s day and age that includes a Linked Profile that standouts…
Your 2022 IT Salary Guide To Keeping Up With Rising Demand
Our 2022 IT Salary Guide is designed to help make sure your salary is keeping up with the ever increasing demand for people with your knowledge. Download our guide and…
Top IT Certifications for 2022 | 2022 IT Certification Roadmap
IT Certifications pave the way for higher salaries, secured job opportunities, and the ability to advance your technical skills. As technical recruiters, we understand receiving these certifications is a investment….
11 Emerging Blockchain Technology Trends to Follow in 2022
Due to its unique data storage methods, experts predict blockchain trends in 2022 will act as a reliable source of future record-keeping and financial transactions among sectors. Public blockchains were…
5 Remote Job Interview Questions in 2021
As for any type of job interview, it’s incredibly important to come prepared with answers to common interview questions. If you are in the market for a remote position, be…
6 of the Fastest Growing IT Salaries in 2021
The pandemic shocked the world when the economy took a nosedive and unemployment soared. With millions of jobs lost, many still feel its effect today. However, despite the unexpected, average…
Soft Skills for 2022 that Employers Require
“Don’t be soft.” We’re sure you’ve heard that before, especially in the professional world. Most of us learned that to land a job and make good money, you should work…
5 Essential Soft Skills for IT Professionals
During the hiring process, employers are increasingly seeking soft skills to ensure a proper culture fit and effective communication within their company. Soft skills are just as important as technical…
The Importance of Establishing a Big Data Ethics Framework
Big data ethics serves as a branch of ethics that evaluates data practices by collecting, generating, analyzing, and distributing data. As the world expands its digital footprint, data collected has…
Use This Japanese Time Management Technique to Increase Work Productivity
It always seems like you need more than 24 hours in a day. Whether it’s at work or home, you want to find ways to make more time in your…
The 11 Most In-Demand Tech Jobs for 2022
While experiencing time with the pandemic, unpredictable is one word to explain everything. Unfortunately, a massive wave of layoffs occurred. However, jobs are now trending again. Knowing the most in-demand tech…
5 Questions to Ask Before Accepting a Job Offer
There are many factors to take into account when you are considering a new job. Like anything, the more questions you ask, the more you learn and understand a topic….
6 Tips to Help Your LinkedIn Profile Stand Out in 2021
It is the goal of IT Resources Corp to help match people to the rewarding career they deserve. In today’s day and age that includes a Linked Profile that standouts…
6 of the Most In-Demand Programming Languages of 2021
The demand for IT, specifically programmers, continues to skyrocket. As an IT professional, you understand that learning the most futuristic programming languages is a time commitment. However, it also equals…
Can you lose a job offer by negotiating salary?
Can you lose a job offer by negotiating salary? As IT recruiters, candidates ask us this question fairly often. In short, yes, this situation can occur. However, typically it is…
Elon Musk Interview Questions
When Elon Musk attended the World Government Summit, he shared his go-to interview approach. In every interview, he asks the candidate, “Tell me about some of the most difficult problems…
4 Tips on Creating an ATS Resume for 2021
When you apply for a job, you do so with dozens, even hundreds of other candidates. Recruiters and human resource professionals only have so much time in their day to…
5 IT Infrastructure Trends for 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated many trends within business sectors and individuals salary. Due to the drastic shift to a remote workforce, businesses must scale their IT Infrastructure. However, they still…
Skillsets you need to Succeed as an IT Project Manager
What is an IT Project Manager? An IT project manager oversees several tasks assigned to an IT team. They manage the planning process, execution, and implementation of specific teach-related goals….
Leveraging Transferable Skills to Help you Land your Next Opportunity
What are Transferrable Skills? Transferable skills are soft skills that are relevant and helpful across different areas of life. When it comes to career changes, transferable skills can be leveraged to position your past experiences…
10 Up-and-Coming Cities for Tech Jobs
Are you hoping to jumpstart your career in technology but don’t know where to look? Just because a city is saturated with people and jobs doesn’t make it an ideal…
5 Working from Home Productivity Tips
Working from home comes with its challenges. It’s been over a year since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, which led to a drastic shift in remote work. However, much of the…
How to Lunch on the First Day
You’ve started your day bright and early at your new job and things couldn’t be going any better. You’ve followed all of our tips for your first day of work—but…
Tips for Capitalizing on Your Strengths
People have made critical investments that had major impacts on their business and financial lives. (Surely, the people who invested in Facebook years ago are sitting pretty now.) But, something…
Your Guide to Virtual Career Fairs in 2021
In an era of remote work and virtual meetings, virtual career fairs have become more prevalent than ever before. Online career fairs allow for the opportunity to connect employers and job seekers, and doing…
Are You Satisfied With Your Job?
It’s an important question to ask yourself fairly regularly: are you satisfied with your job? It can be a daunting question, especially if you suspect your answer to be ‘no.’…
The Programming Percentage: Coding is Half the Job
As one of the most important positions in the information technology field today, coders go by many names. You’ve heard the term computer programmers, software developers, or perhaps software engineers…
7 Must-Have Cybersecurity Analyst Skills and Certification Requirements in 2021
When organizations transitioned to a fully remote landscape in 2020, the demand for cybersecurity analysts jobs skyrocketed. Organizations had to maintain minimal cybersecurity risks with low cost and high performance….
How to Be a Successful Web Designer
Whether you are working as a freelance web designer or for a large agency, there are certain concepts and skills you should possess. Creating and designing a website that will…
IT Recruitment Agency Partnership Frequently Asked Questions
The process of searching for a new job can be stressful, tiresome, and even overwhelming. Shifting through the hundreds of job boards and career sites can significantly add to that…
4 Resume Tips for Older Job Seekers that Will Land an Interview in 2021
The process of searching for a new job always comes with its own challenges. However, older professionals with many years of experience and skills to spares may face additional hurdles….
Areas of Cybersecurity and 3 Steps to Get You There
What is cybersecurity? Cybersecurity protects systems and networks from cyber-attacks. Sensitive information such as passwords, bank accounts, and business methods get aimed for when under a cyber-attack. This information may…
The Future of Project Management Tools
By now, the tech realm should feel well-versed in artificial intelligence (AI). AI and automation continue to impact the present and thus the future of project management tools. The rise…
The Keys to a Smooth Career Change in 2021
A new year can bring many opportunities to start over or try something new. Beginning a new path can feel intimidating, especially in 2021. However, this year is as great…
Avoiding WFH Burnout: What Are the Signs?
For years, employees faced work burnout. However, that COVID-19 pandemic caused burnout levels to dramatically rise after a shift in work culture. Working from home (WFH) comes with its challenges….
The Need for Upskilling and Reskilling Your Workforce in 2021
Due to the pandemic, companies scaled infrastructures, adopted new technologies and transitioned to a fully remote workforce. Having a specialized skills shortage increased the concern about the skills gaps worsening…
Surviving the Holiday Job Search
As the holidays quickly approach us, contrary to belief, hiring doesn’t stop during the holiday season. Neither should your job search. You may feel tempted to slow down your search…
How to Ask for a Raise in 7 Steps
This year brought many challenges for businesses with record-breaking unemployment rates and economic uncertainty. With its challenges, you may not know if it’s the appropriate time to ask for a…
The Gender Pay Gap in Tech
Despite improvements, the tech industry’s gender pay gap remains above the national average and women in tech remai at a significant disadvantage to their male counterparts. The Gender Gap in IT Women in…
3 Reasons You’re Missing Out on IT Placements
Unemployment rates are at their lowest in 50 years. Plus, the number of open jobs industry-wide vastly outnumbers the amount of available let alone qualified candidates to fill them. This…
4 Advantages of IT Contract Jobs
Contract work within the information technology industry has always been extremely prevalent. Many IT professionals choose contract work over a full-time role for a variety of reasons. IT contractors operate…
COVID-19 and the Accelerated Need for Cybersecurity Skills
Now more than ever, cybersecurity skills continue to take precedence over most other IT skills. The demand for cybersecurity professionals consistently outpaces the supply of available candidates. In a post-COVID-19…
A Guide to Virtual Networking
When you network, you establish and develop professional relationships through genuine and valuable interactions. Many stopped attending networking events and conferences due to COVID-19. In an era of remote work…
4 Tips on Writing a Technical Resume
As 2020 gets closer to its end, holidays begin to show up on everyone’s calendar. Labor Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and the rest come and go before we’re ready and this…
Benefits of Working Remotely in Tech with Locally Adjusted Salaries
As the pandemic progresses and companies continue to shift to permanently working from home, many begin to see the benefits of working remotely in tech. Big Tech like Facebook, Google,…
10 of the Most In-Demand IT Jobs in 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic brought an economic downturn and a drastic rise in the number of unemployed workers. Toward the end of March, organizations across the country began shutting their offices…
5G Explained
In the past year, a new technology trend has not only hit news articles but also taken over conspiracy theory forums. Almost everyone by now has heard of it. However,…
Revisiting Your Goals and Staying Consistent
Motivation comes and goes often for most of us. Revisiting your goals can help you establish what you need to do to reach them. When you do this, your time management,…
Job Hunting Tips | Amp Up Your Job Search
The job search process can be overwhelming and stressful, especially during these uncertain times. As professional recruiters, we are here to help take the stress out of your job search….
Tips for Your Passive Job Search
The demand for tech continues to increase. However, so does the amount of time it takes to fill out applications for jobs in information technology. While the economy and unemployment…
Business Email Etiquette
Misinterpretation happens all the time. We misunderstand texts, exhibit poor nonverbal communication, and hear things incorrectly. We also misinterpret emails. In the professional world, email trumps most forms of technological…
How to Assess Company Culture
The interview poses as a two-way process. You need to ensure that you fit well within an organization. The hiring manager evaluates your experience and skillsets to determine if you…
5 Realities of Social Media Reputation Management
You already know you should maintain non-incriminating social media accounts, especially when applying to jobs. Many of us have had a neighbor or an ex-girlfriend tag us in a spring…
How to Become a Network Engineer
As more and more companies make the shift to big data, the importance of network engineers continues to increase in the IT industry. Plus, a network engineer has the opportunity…
Will AI Replace Recruiters?
Products fused with artificial intelligence are increasingly becoming the new normal. The new normal includes nixing jobs that AI can replace. Some of these you already know about such as…
Behavioral Interview Questions and the Star Method
Behavioral interview questions are based on the theory that past behavior is a strong predictor of future behavior. The interviewer asks specific questions seeking information about candidate’s skills, character, and…
Lockdown Recipes Cookbook
We understand that this time can be extremely difficult and challenging. In contribution to those who are at home, our team at IT Resources and RNa Partners, has put together…
COBOL Programmers Back in Demand Due to COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has shed light on some states’ older technology in turn putting COBOL programmers back in demand. In late March, politicians passed the the $2.2 trillion CARES Act….
Life After the Coronavirus for Tech Professionals
As business shifts to remote work, education turns to online courses and virtual classrooms, and traditional-care settings adapt to telemedicine, we anticipate how these changes will impact our near future….
7 Tips on How to Cope with Stress at Work
We find stress everywhere. At home, with our friends and family, at school, and especially at work. A stressful day can severely impact productivity and your overall happiness. If you…
How to Prepare for Video Interviews
Businesses are facing unexpected disruptions. As employees transition from work to home, the usual in-person interviews take place as a Skype interview or video call. Although the hiring process appears…
5 Tips for Working Remotely
One of the great benefits afforded to professionals these days is the ability to work from home to stay on their career path. You can avoid a long commute, help…
Land a Job with an Accomplishment-Based Resume
When editing resumes, many focus on their summary statement, skills, and references. They falsely assume that listing their experience is the easy part. If you list your duties and responsibilities…
3 Reasons You’re Missing Out on IT Placements
Unemployment rates are at their lowest in 50 years. Plus, the number of open jobs industry-wide vastly outnumbers the amount of available let alone qualified candidates to fill them. This…
The 101 on Job References
An impressive resume and strong skillset may land you an interview. However, job references can make or break of the hiring process. Employers want to ensure that you fit their…
Get Linked Up with 7 LinkedIn Networking Tips
Building your LinkedIn Profile as a professional network is advantageous to your job search and networking growth. The connections you make on LinkedIn can land you your next job or…
Unique Interview Questions to Ask an Employer
You’re almost finished with an incredible interview. It went so well that you already have a feeling that you’ll hear something back soon. As your potential employer finishes wrapping things…
The Top 4 Tech Jobs in 2020
As rapidly as the technological landscape shifts and evolves, the high demand for tech jobs remains as constant as ever. Companies industry-wide jostle for position, shouting over one another and…
8 Ways to Make Hiring Managers Hate Your Resume
You want to sound professional, educated, and confident. When searching for jobs, who wouldn’t? However, you might come across as the opposite. Hiring managers have seen everything from meaningless buzzwords…
The AI Era: Is the Workforce Prepared?
As we dive deeper into the AI era of automation, day-to-day operations in the workplace continue to change. The future of our work will also continue evolving, whether we’re ready…
Holiday Getaway to Tech Takeover
The Millennial Migration Colleges surrounding the area continue to spit out business-driven technology enthusiasts looking to increase its minuscule 3 percent venture capital. To accelerate the process, they need the…
What Makes a Good IT Project Manager?
As the world of tech advances, so do its roles. Larger organizations with tech departments and software companies adhering to clients need IT project managers. The skills, requirements, and responsibilities…
3 Tips on Attracting Top Tech Talent
The competition in attracting top tech talent is at an all-time high with an unemployment rate of 3.5 percent. Furthermore, companies continue to face a massive talent shortage. Yes, competitive…
Tech Jobs and Ethical Culture
Articles on technology jobs are surfacing everywhere. We know because we’ve written our fair share. The industry continues to rise. Tech jobs not only continue to increase but also become…
How to Job Search While Working Full-Time
Compared to recent years, the job market holds its fair share of available jobs. Therefore, if you currently seek a new opportunity, there’s no better time than the present. However,…
Programming Languages to know in 2020
Computers exist in almost every industry. Do you remember your last occupation solely relying on pen and paper? Neither do we. Therefore, the demand for tech talent, specifically programmers and…
Unexpected Interview Question Preparation
Being blindsided during an interview sounds like a potential catastrophe. However, it happens more than you think. If a question caught you off-guard, it doesn’t have to ruin the interview….
4 Reasons to Work with a Professional Recruiter
Our President, Dan Jones shares four reasons why you should work with a professional recruiter. Do you feel like your career is broken? If so, I’ll encourage you to find…
Build Your Online Portfolio
You already have a resume. However, you might not know the benefit of having some sort of online presence showcasing your work. As the digital world continues to grow, so…
8 Career Resolutions for 2020
It’s not only the start of a new year; it’s also a new decade! You’ve probably made a list of goals for your personal life: go to the gym, save…
The Importance of Years’ End Evaluations
With the end of the year growing closer and closer, it is important to be honest with yourself when reflecting on your career within the past year. End of the…
The Perfect Job for Your Personality
Psychologists have been studying personality since the 1920s and in classic ways even earlier. Many theories and personality tests have been derived from this discourse, like the Big Five personality…
Finish 2019 Strong
With the Holiday Season upon us, things can begin to slow down for work. You may feel tempted to sit back and wait for the new year to start. Don’t…
5 Things to be Thankful for at Work
We have many things to be thankful for. With Thanksgiving around the corner, you will no doubt be expressing gratitude toward friends and family. While giving thanks, you may not…
Setting Stretch Goals
What’s a Stretch Goal? A stretch goal, despite what it may sound like, is not aiming to touch your toes. It is aiming to touch the sky—and then some. In…
6 Interview Horror Stories That Will Make You Cringe
It’s Halloween and IT Resources Corp is getting in the spooky spirit by sharing a few Interview Horror Stories with you. Whether you were the interviewer or the candidate, we’ve…
4 Ways to Bounce Back After a Bad Interview
Did you just walk out of an interview feeling disappointed or frustrated with how it went? Despite feeling prepared and confident walking in, sometimes interviews don’t go as planned. It’s…
6 Reasons to Hire an IT Recruiter
The market for recruiting IT professionals continues to accelerate in helping to connect candidates in their job search. According to IT trade groups, within the last three months, U.S. employers…
7 Signs It’s Time to Quit Your Job
The decision to quit your job is never an easy choice. It takes a lot of thought and consideration before you’re ready to make that next step. You need to…
Quit Procrastinating Working Remotely
Working remotely or working independently requires a degree of self-discipline. Actually, scratch that: self-discipline is essential when you’re your own boss. If you want to get your work done in…
6 Tips on Organizing Your Job Search
Our Best Tips to Aid the Job Search Process Searching for jobs can feel tiresome. It can feel especially draining if you already have a job. If you’re like most…
How to Grow Your Network in 3 Simple Steps
Our Best Tips to Grow Your Professional Connections Establishing strong, professional relationships can help build your career. But where do you start? Realize that professional networking is part of the…
5 High-Paying Tech Jobs that Don’t Require a Degree
Higher Education is not Always a Necessity in the World of Tech Are you holding back from starting your career in technology because you don’t have a college degree? Plenty…
5 Ways to Ace Writing a Thank You Email
Our Tips and Tricks to Writing a Follow-Up Email After an Interview It’s always important to show gratitude, especially during an interview. Following up with a thank you email after…
7 Tips to Help You Stand Out During a Phone Interview
Interviews can feel grueling. Conducting them over the phone may seem easy and less awkward. However, the loss of visual cues and body language make it more difficult to stand…
Increasing Minimum Wage or AI? The Reality of Automation
Technological advances continue to impact human labor like never before. Automation has pervaded into almost every industry: information technology, food service, agriculture, healthcare and more. However, one relevant factor affecting…
Assessing Your Career
Knowing where you are in your career is very important. Whether you are just starting down a new path or a veteran of the industry, knowing where you were and where you…