If you’re an IT professional, recruiters call you. Email you. Even text you. Anytime a job opens with your skill set, you get lots of notifications.<\/p>\n
Recruiters and staffing companies serve a purpose in the marketplace. They can open doors and have deep ties to great companies. We know. We are one.<\/p>\n
A couple of general things you need to look for when working with a recruiter:<\/p>\n
Not all recruiters are created equal.<\/strong><\/p>\n Typically, recruiting and staffing are high-turnover industries for a number of reasons. If you’re looking to take your career to the next level or work on innovative projects, make sure they speak the language, have appropriate follow-through, and are highly-specialized. Furthermore, make sure they’re trustworthy.<\/p>\n Talk to them about your goals<\/strong><\/p>\n Recruiters talk, email, or text a lot of people. Make sure they know what you’re striving for. If they don’t know, they can’t plug you into new opportunities or take the opportunity to sell you to a client and advocate for you throughout the process. Pay attention to someone who asks questions about your future, where you want to go, and how you want to get there.<\/p>\n Keep in touch even if you’re not actively looking<\/strong><\/p>\n 70% of the global workforce are passive candidates<\/a>. Even if you don’t need to get out of a bad environment, still check in with high-producing recruiters. The best opportunities happen when you’re in a strong position: like when you have a job you like. When approached, you really have an opportunity to way the pro’s and con’s of staying or leaving. It also allows you a great opportunity to negotiate for better compensation<\/a>, benefits, or flexibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you’re an IT professional, recruiters call you. Email you. Even text you. Anytime a job opens with your skill set, you get lots of notifications. Recruiters and staffing companies serve a purpose in the marketplace. They can open doors and have deep ties to great companies. We know. We are one. A couple of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[117,119,118,116,115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icapsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icapsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icapsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icapsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icapsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icapsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icapsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icapsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icapsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icapsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}