Summer is right around the corner and it’s a beautiful time of the year. It’s an opportunity for us to spend more time enjoying some outdoor activities such as boating, family events, baseball, going to the beach, visiting the zoo and many more. These summer activities are all a great way to get some much needed rest while enjoying the weather. My husband and I are looking forward to our vacation this year in sunny Florida.
We have all been on teams at some point in our lives. Whether it’s a sports team when we were younger or a business team now, there are certain characteristics all winning teams have in common. We could get into finer details such as core values, chemistry, and leadership, but this article will focus on a different foundation of success: talent. Talent is what carries you through tough situations and allows teams to rise to great challenges. When the unexpected happens or immediate action is required, there’s little time to evaluate and plan. This is when teams rely on their most talented members to succeed.
In my December 2015 article I discussed reasons we hire for logic (not merely a grasp of EDI or translator specific syntax) and why we conduct our screening processes in such a way to achieve an understanding of skill sets. Today I’d like to add an additional thought about hiring using a concept called Personas.
I have been in the recruiting field for 10 years now. Technical resumes break all the traditional rules of resume writing. The reason being is because technology changes so much and the rules surrounding IT departments are constantly evolving. Here are a few tips to freshen up your resume.
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Over the past few years, we have quickly seen cloud storage become a huge part of our personal and professional lives. For those unfamiliar with cloud storage, it’s essentially an intangible hard drive that allows storage and access to data for a variety of users. Cloud storage grants many benefits to daily tasks, mobile devices, and web services we all use. Whether we know it or not, we’re using a cloud when collaborating online with co-workers, using email, and even streaming entertainment at home. Such profound innovations seem to find their way into almost all aspects of our lives in time, so I was surprised to read in this article, by Scott Koegler, that only 8% of billing transactions are cloud based.
