Partnering with a Recruiter to Fill your Team Needs Recruiting is a highly specialized task. Smart companies allocate this task to recruiting agencies who are the specialists in this area and deep domain expertise. Here are a few compelling reasons why you should choose an experienced recruiting agency to help you hire the right candidates. [...]
Paving the Way for IT Jobs In recent times, the information technology sector has emerged as a major bright spot for the local economy in Greater Philadelphia. Given the remarkable job growth potential for IT professionals around the country, Greater Philadelphia is now well-positioned to serve as the hotbed of opportunity for the region’s IT [...]
Don't Call it a Comeback - Philly Jobs Have Been Here for Years Greater Philadelphia has been a hub of manufacturing and engineering for over a century. The region is now making a robust comeback in this core area, with both large companies that manufacture products for the world market and innovative startups, which backed [...]
Avoid Common Resume Errors When considering punctuation and its usefulness in your resume, there are far too many items to discuss in one blog. The choices run from the simple writing of employment dates, to how to use a hyphen. With over thirty years of recruiting engineers (manufacturing, industrial, quality, process), scientists (data, life sciences, [...]
Balancing Life and your Career Work life balance. Aside from whether to marry (and if so with whom), is there a more important component to the well lived life of a spiritually and morally committed person than one's vocation? Our vocations and by extension our career choices will consume the lion share of our waking [...]
Gaining Valuable Experience as a Summer Intern The end of summer is approaching and so is your summer internship. So how do you leave? You have spent most of your summer hours in the office and have been able to add some valuable bullets to your resume. For most of you, your internship was your [...]
Hiring in a Hot Job Sector Hiring choices: By most standards, we are now in the hottest STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) job market since the end of the go-go 90’s. Just ask any technical recruiter on the corporate or agency side about their rising ‘time-to-fill’ metrics. Time-to-fill is an important measurement of the number [...]
Measuring Intangibles with Skills and Experience Right Fit for the Job: With the job market continuing to emphasize skills and credentials, don’t get caught letting your personal brand and the overall quality of your candidacy suffer from poor intangibles. Today’s technical role descriptions are packed with buzzwords and skills, placing significant time commitments on technologists [...]
The Key to Interviewing is Preparation Interview preparation guides and blogs are not exactly a fresh idea, but a fresh reminder and perhaps a few new ideas never hurt. I’ve got some do’s and don’ts that are part of my regular interview prep coaching. Some ideas are as old as time (or myself) and some [...]
Technical and engineer recruiters looking for the perfect candidate, you know the one: not too much experience, not too little; not too much money, but not too cheap; not too many jobs, not too much attitude, but just enough so he/she projects an air of confidence. Well for both corporate and agency IT Recruiters, Engineering [...]
