Get Ready to Expand Your Technical Career to Include Big Data

by Jennifer Hay | Nov 24, 2016 | Building Your IT Career, IT Resume Writing Tips, Tips & Articles

There are tremendous job opportunities when you expand your technical career to include big data. As the use of data and data management practices continue to evolve, it’s a natural fit. In this article, I’ve outlined some of the fundamental big data...

Technical Resumes – Best Practices for a Technical Job Search

by Jennifer Hay | Nov 23, 2016 | Building Your IT Career, IT Resume Writing Tips, Tips & Articles, Uncategorized

I am writing a series of articles about technical job search trends and technical resumes. In my first article, I looked at web-based portfolios and examined whether they were worth the cost. In this article, I’m offering an alternative to web-based portfolios...

Seven Easy Steps for Updating Your Government Resume for the Private Industry

by Jennifer Hay | Aug 30, 2015 | IT Resume Samples, IT Resume Writing Tips

Many IT professionals in the government are looking to transition to the private industry, but creating a technical resume that appeals to non-government recruiters and hiring managers can be an obstacle. I have put together four more best practices to make your...

Advance Your Technology Career, Using Exploration and Discovery

by Jennifer Hay | Aug 29, 2015 | Building Your IT Career, IT Resume Writing Tips, Tips & Articles

Information Technology job titles can be confusing because a tech person generally performs multiple job roles. For example, you can be a IT Project Manager and also have responsibility as a Systems Developer, Software Developer, and Systems Analyst, just to name a...

Technical Resumes in a Data-Driven Economy

by Jennifer Hay | Jul 31, 2015 | Building Your IT Career, IT Resume Writing Tips, Tips & Articles, Uncategorized

We live and work today in a data-driven economy. Data is everywhere and is continuously collected from business, social, shopping, and personal activities. Successful companies thrive on data – something that was once relegated to record keeping, but today is at the...

The Top Five Tips for Creating a Great IT Support Specialist Resume

by Jennifer Hay | Jul 22, 2015 | Building Your IT Career, IT Resume Writing Tips, Tips & Articles

For many IT professionals, the first step in their technical career is as an IT Support Specialist working as part of a helpdesk team. They are the face of IT to the business community and the relationship building skills and technical skills that they learn in this...