How to Land a Top-Paying Job With IT Consultants: Your Complete Guide to Opportunities, Resumes and Cover Letters, Interviews, Salaries, Promotions, What to Expect From Recruiters and More!

Brad Andrews

Description

For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first IT Consultants job, or to apply for a better job.

What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most important points. With this book, you'll be able to revise your application into a much stronger document, be much better prepared and a step ahead for the next opportunity.

The book comes filled with useful cheat sheets. It helps you get your career organized in a tidy, presentable fashion. It also will inspire you to produce some attention-grabbing cover letters that convey your skills persuasively and attractively in your application packets.

After studying it, too, you'll be prepared for interviews, or you will be after you conducted the practice sessions where someone sits and asks you potential questions. It makes you think on your feet!

This book makes a world of difference in helping you stay away from vague and long-winded answers and you will be finally able to connect with prospective employers, including the one that will actually hire you.

This book successfully challenges conventional job search wisdom and doesn't load you with useful but obvious suggestions ("don't forget to wear a nice suit to your interview," for example). Instead, it deliberately challenges conventional job search wisdom, and in so doing, offers radical but inspired suggestions for success.

Think that "companies approach hiring with common sense, logic, and good business acumen and consistency?" Think that "the most qualified candidate gets the job?" Think again! Time and again it is proven that finding a job is a highly subjective business filled with innumerable variables. The triumphant jobseeker is the one who not only recognizes these inconsistencies and but also uses them to his advantage. Not sure how to do this? Don't worry-How to Land a Top-Paying IT Consultants Job guides the way.

Highly recommended to any harried IT Consultants jobseeker, whether you want to work for the government or a company. You'll plan on using it again in your efforts to move up in the world for an even better position down the road.

This book offers excellent, insightful advice for everyone from entry-level to senior professionals. None of the other such career guides compare with this one. It stands out because it: 1) explains how the people doing the hiring think, so that you can win them over on paper and then in your interview; 2) has an engaging, reader-friendly style; 3) explains every step of the job-hunting process - from little-known ways for finding openings to getting ahead on the job.

This book covers everything. Whether you are trying to get your first IT Consultants Job or move up in the system, get this book.

Sujets

• Computer Science
• Computers
• Informatique

Informations

• Publié par: Emereo Publishing
• Date de parution: 24 octobre 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781743042267
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Getting and Finding IT Consultants Jobs – The Ultimate Guide for Job Seekers and Recruiters

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION............................................................................ 5 IT CONSULTANTS–THE LOW DOWN...........................................8 Nature of the Industry ............................................................. 9 Working Conditions ...............................................................12 Employment...........................................................................13 Occupations in the Industry ...................................................16 Training and Advancement ....................................................27 Outlook ..................................................................................32 Earnings..................................................................................36 Sources of Additional Information.........................................39 FINDING AND APPLYING FOR IT CONSULTANTS JOBS AND EVALUATING OFFERS .................................................................42 Where to Learn About Job Openings .....................................43 Job Search Methods...............................................................44 Applying for a Job...................................................................51 Job Interview Tips ..................................................................57 Evaluating a Job Offer ............................................................60

FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TABLE…HOW IT CONSULTANTS HIRE THE BEST............................................................................68 THE INTERVIEW AND SELECTION PROCESS ...............................70 SAMPLE CUSTOMER SERVICE FOCUSED INTERVIEW QUESTIONS ...................................................................................................92 INTERVIEWING .........................................................................106 TIPS ON INTERVIEWING ...........................................................110

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CHECKING REFERENCES ...........................................................120

RECORDING A PROFILE OF IMPRESSIONS ................................128 IT CONSULTANTS RECRUITING.................................................132 ASSESSING YOUR RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION PRACTICES 140

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INTRODUCTION For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first IT Consultants job, or to apply for a better job. What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most important points. With this book, you'll be able to revise your application into a much stronger document, be much better prepared and a step ahead for the next opportunity. The book comes filled with useful cheat sheets. It helps you get your career organized in a tidy, presentable fashion. It also will inspire you to produce some attention-grabbing cover letters that convey your skills persuasively and attractively in your application packets. After studying it, too, you'll be prepared for interviews, or you will be after you conducted the practice sessions where someone sits and asks you potential questions. It makes you think on your feet! This book makes a world of difference in helping you stay away from vague and long- winded answers and you will be finally able to

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connect with prospective employers, including the one that will actually hire you. This book successfully challenges conventional job search wisdom and doesn't load you with useful but obvious suggestions ("don't forget to wear a nice suit to your interview," for example). Instead, it deliberately challenges conventional job search wisdom, and in so doing, offers radical but inspired suggestions for success. Think that "companies approach hiring with common sense, logic, and good business acumen and consistency?" Think that "the most qualified candidate gets the job?" Think again! Time and again it is proven that finding a job is a highly subjective business filled with innumerable variables. The triumphant jobseeker is the one who not only recognizes these inconsistencies and but also uses them to his advantage. Not sure how to do this? Don't worry-How to Land a Top-Paying IT Consultants Job guides the way. Highly recommended to any harried IT Consultants jobseeker, whether you want to work for the government or a company. You'll plan on using it again in your efforts to move up in the world for an even better position down the road. This book offers excellent, insightful advice for everyone from entry-level to senior

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professionals. None of the other such career guides compare with this one. It stands out because it: 1) explains how the people doing the hiring think, so that you can win them over on paper and then in your interview; 2) has an engaging, reader-friendly style; 3) explains every step of the job-hunting process - from little-known ways for finding openings to getting ahead on the job. This book covers everything. Whether you are trying to get your first IT Consultants job or move up in the system, get this book.

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IT CONSULTANTS–THE LOW DOWN

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Nature of the Industry Working Conditions Employment Occupations In The Industry Training and Advancement Outlook Earnings Sources of Additional Information

Significant Points

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The computer systems design and related services industry is expected to experience rapid growth, adding 489,000 jobs between last year and 2016. Professional and related workers will enjoy the best job prospects, reflecting continuing demand for higher level skills needed to keep up with changes in technology. Computer specialists accounted for 54 percent of all employees in this industry in last year.

Nature of the Industry

All organizations today rely on computer and information technology to conduct business and operate more efficiently. Often, however, these institutions do not have the internal resources to effectively implement new technologies or satisfy their changing needs. When faced with such limitations, organizations turn to the computer systems design and related services industry to meet their specialized needs.

GOODS AND SERVICES.Firms enlist the services of an establishment in the computer systems design and related services industry on a contract or customer basis for help with a particular project or problem, such as setting up a secure Web site or establishing a marketplace online. Alternatively, firms may choose to contract out to a computer services firm one or more activities, such as the management of their onsite data center or help-desk support.

Services provided by this industry include custom computer programming services; computer systems design services; computer facilities management services, including computer systems or data processing facilities support services; and other computer-related

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services such as disaster recovery and software installation.

INDUSTRY ORGANIZATION.In last year, there were 159,000 establishments in the computer systems design and related services industry. Custom programming establishments write, modify, test, and support software to meet the needs of a particular customer. These service firms may be hired to code large programs, or to install a software package on a users system and customize it to the user's specific needs. Programming service firms also may update or reengineer existing systems.

Systems design services firms plan and design computer systems that integrate computer hardware, software, and communications technologies. In addition, they often install these systems and train and support the people who use them. The systemshardware and software components may be provided by the design firm as part of integrated services, or may be provided by third parties or vendors.

Computer facilities management services usually are offered at the customers site. Establishments offering these services provide onsite management and operation of clients computer systems and facilities, as well as facilities support services.

Electronic business, referred to as e-business, is any process that a business organization

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