In our past few blog posts, we’ve addressed the top work habits of valuable employees and the work habits of non-valuable employees. These habits could determine whether or not you get hired . . . or whether or not you get fired. But what about your career overall? Which patterns of behavior could ultimately hurt [...]
We recently addressed the top work habits of valuable employees, those habits that employers seek out and the ones they want to see in job seekers and candidates. Those five work habits are as follows: Patience Active listening Emotional intelligence Prioritization Balance Just as there are work habits of employees who are considered valuable, there [...]
In our previous blog post, we posed the question of which is more valuable in terms of hiring—hard skills or soft skills? The bottom line is that hiring for soft skills is extremely important in the employment marketplace, which is why job seekers should make sure they possess all the skills necessary to be considered [...]
What makes you a great candidate for a job that you’d really like to have? Well, as you may have already guessed, there are a lot of factors, including your skills and your experience. However, there are also other, more intangible factors. These include your soft skill set, or the way in which you’re able [...]
Success requires many things. Some of them are difficult to do and require a lot of energy. However, some of them are not and do not. Unfortunately, there are people who are not familiar with the latter category, which is a shame, since they can contribute greatly to professional success. There is one simple skill [...]
Recently in this blog, we’ve addressed the topic of cloud computing. Specifically, we’ve done so with the following posts: “Want to Stand Out? Become an Expert in the Hybrid Cloud” “The Cloud: a Growing Source of Data AND Jobs” The bottom line with this series of posts is this: how can YOU leverage this information [...]
We’ve broached the subject of the “cloud” before in this blog, specifically with the post “Want to Stand Out? Become an Expert in the Hybrid Cloud.” In that post, we addressed the growing emergence of hybrid clouds, as well as the employment opportunities that have resulted from that emergence. However, let’s take a step back [...]
It seems like you can’t go a full week without reading a news article or seeing a report on television or the Internet about a hacking incident. They happen so frequently these days that some people hardly notice them anymore. However, the companies being hacked certainly notice. That’s because they’re losing data, they’re losing money, [...]
Like everything else in the field of Information Technology, open source code has grown and evolved over the years. In short, more and more companies are using open source code. They’re using open source components from a variety of different places, and they’re incorporating it more into their software products. The reason is simple: open [...]
In our previous blog post, we addressed one of the big buzz phrases in Information Technology: “Big Data.” In this blog post, we have yet another such phrase: the “Cloud.” In fact, we’re going even a step further than that, to the heights of the “Hybrid Cloud.” According to SearchCloudComputing.com, the “Hybrid Cloud is a [...]