Work on a Contract Basis — or Go Fulltime? Which is Right for You? – Updated

“As we are experiencing the ‘Great Resignation’, many people are re-evaluating what they want in a job and where they are doing it. Companies are trying to keep up with the trends as well. We are updating one of our past entries with some additional information related to current hiring trends.” The gig economy is here to stay, and freelance work is surging in popularity, but is this increasingly common method of work right for you? There are around 55 million Americans doing contract work, according to a survey commissioned by the Freelancers Union in 2016. That's around 35 [...]

By |January 3rd, 2022|IT career planning, IT Recruiting, IT Staffing|0 Comments
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Top 5 IT Cyber Security Certifications with the Greatest ROI – Updated

“As we are experiencing the ‘Great Resignation’, many people are re-evaluating what they want in a job and where they are doing it. Companies are trying to keep up with the trends as well. We are updating one of our past entries with some additional information related to current hiring trends.” If you’re an IT consultant or your thinking about launching your career in information technology (IT), there are a wide range of certifications available to you that you should consider pursuing to enhance you career and open the door to new and lucrative opportunities. Whether you’re focused on [...]

By |December 27th, 2021|CyberSecurity, Featured, IT Recruiting, IT Staffing|0 Comments
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Is COVID Changing the Job Market for Software Developers? – Updated

“As we are experiencing the ‘Great Resignation’, many people are re-evaluating what they want in a job and where they are doing it. Companies are trying to keep up with the trends as well. We are updating one of our past entries with some additional information related to current hiring trends.” The COVID-19 pandemic has affected nearly every industry around the world. In the US alone, the unemployment rate reached 14.7% in April – an all-time high since 1948. The good news is that compared to other sectors and industries, the IT sector is coping reasonably well with the [...]

By |December 20th, 2021|Better IT Hiring, IT career planning|0 Comments
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What Happened to the DBA?

Jesse Anderson from Big Data Institute and David Moise Discuss: What happened to the DBA? Data Teams How the Big Data Institute Finds Data Scientist and Data Engineers for their team -- Contents of this Video--- 00:00 - Intro 1:06 - What happened to the DBA? 1:47 - DBA - New job for the 21st Century? 2:29 - Why we needed so many DBAs 3:10 - What we do instead of DBAs 4:10 - Software Engineers & Databases 5:10 - Data Jobs for the next 10 Years 6:22 - The Job Market for Data Engineers 7:44 - Where and [...]

By |December 17th, 2021|IT resumes, IT Staffing|0 Comments
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SDLC Comparision: Agile vs DevOps – Updated

“As we are experiencing the ‘Great Resignation’, many people are re-evaluating what they want in a job and where they are doing it. Companies are trying to keep up with the trends as well. We are updating one of our past entries with some additional information related to current hiring trends.” Agile and DevOps are often conflated and confused with each other. It’s often misunderstood where one stops and the other begins. While there are a lot of differences between the two, the short answer is that Agile is a Software Development Life Cycle that provides a methodology for [...]

By |December 13th, 2021|CIO/CTO, Technology Spotlight, Thought Leaders|0 Comments
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