How to move from being a Team Leader to a Manager
For perhaps half of my candidates, their career goals involve moving into a management position and ultimately out of being technically hands on. The question is how do you make this move?
A boutique IT recruitment agency based in Australia, selecting, tracking and nurturing IT talent for IT companies and forward thinking IT Departments.
Perhaps one of the most interesting things I've learnt recently is a study that showed it's not intelligence or IQ that determines someone's success in life but the single quality of self-control.
Continue Reading »So, you’re going into an interview, you’re a little nervous but well prepared for what questions you think the interviewer is going to ask you. But, they're not the only things you should be preparing for. You’ll look . . .
Continue Reading »“The IT team is only 6 people, there’s no room to grow. “
“My employer never offers me any training”
“The scope of my role is very limited so I can’t learn new skills . . .
Continue Reading »So I tried something new today. I did a ‘one take’ screen recording as I gave someone advice on what I’d do to modify their CV and make it more relevant for the jobs they were applying for . . .
Continue Reading »Most of the time I find employers will be open to consider older candidates if they can be assured of the following...
Continue Reading »It doesn’t matter whether you’re writing a CV, meeting a potential employer in an interview situation, attending a networking event or posting on social media, these three principles always apply when you’re hunting for a job.
Continue Reading »I've employed a lot of technically talented people in my time but it's not always the talented people that get their career fast tracked. When I look back at all the people I have hired over . . .
Continue Reading »In the course of being a recruiter giving interview tips and advice and prepping candidates for interviews, there’s something I do certainly every week, almost on a daily basis.
Continue Reading »When I ran an IT company, I found recruiting was one of the toughest jobs simply because if a candidate hadn't worked in small business IT before and didn't understand the rigours of needing to support multiple different clients with
Continue Reading »Since stepping out of my MSP and into IT recruitment, I've worked with a lot of MSP 's and looked at what makes the larger, growing ones so successful. So, here’s my take on the 3 critical
Continue Reading »There are a lot of articles out there that give tips on how an introvert candidate can ace his/her next interview. But what about the interviewers?
Continue Reading »This week 720 ABC Perth asked me to speak live on air about CVs and how to produce a better CV which also ranks highly in the automated recruitment systems.
Continue Reading »The Technical Account Manager is a perfect blend between a relationship manager which manages the relationship with the client as well as a technical person who understands the technical solutions to business problems.
Continue Reading »You walk into the interview and sit down and the interviewer almost without thinking rattles off the classic interview opener “Tell me a bit about yourself”. What you do next can determine the whole course of the interview… your
Continue Reading »I see many resumes that are way too long. Far more than that are too short. So I thought I’d write a brief guide to help you work out how long your CV should be and what to cut out. Naturally this is general advice, without seeing your CV it&
Continue Reading »MSP "We need more clients in order to grow so we need someone to go out and get more clients for us."
Continue Reading »Skills matrices are a much vexed question for IT CV’s so here’s my take on it.
Continue Reading »This is a real bug bear of mine, so please excuse this rant.
Heck no, don’t excuse it, sit up and listen, and take notes if you need to.
I watched a ‘Seconds from Disaster’ episode last night on the 1986 Hotel New World collapse in Singapore. Disaster to say the least – an entire 6 story building collapsed in less than a minute, 33 people tragically lost their lives an
Continue Reading »One of the things I learnt early on in my IT recruitment career was that technical definitions and particularly job titles mean different things to different people.
For those old enough to remember, there used to be a slot in a laptop that a
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