Career Advice – Experienced IT People
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Changes to Your LinkedIn Profile to Get Hired
Did you know that 90 percent of recruiters use LinkedIn? The platform plays a pivotal role in the recruitment process for most organizations and allows organizations to find new talent easily. Having an attractive LinkedIn profile is critical to getting your dream job. However, given the number of people that are part of this social network, most job seekers are unable to use this platform to find a good job. So what can you do? As it turns out, simply creating a profile on LinkedIn isn’t good enough. You need to customize it in a manner that makes it easier [...]
Houston IT Job Market Update – Video
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Career Advice – Mid Career IT People
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Deep Dive in May COVID Job Losses and Gains
Since the COVID Event started, The US has had over 42M unemployment claims and lost 17.7 million jobs. Both numbers are interesting to follow. Keep in mind that when a person goes back to work, the unemployment stops, but they are still tallied in a previous week’s unemployment Typically the unemployment claims and job losses/gains move in a tightly coupled manner. We do not expect to see that for a while. In May we had 9.6M Unemployment claims and added 2.27M jobs back. While 2.27 sounds good, we are still down 17.7M jobs since February. Take the good news [...]