Articles by Leslie Stevens-Huffman
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Guide to Overcoming Objections from Passive Tech Candidates
With the unemployment rate for tech occupations hovering at around 2 percent, understanding how to effectively engage passive candidates is more important than ever before. What is a passive cand… -
How to Use Data to Optimize Your Job Search
If you’ve spent days applying to hundreds of jobs with little to show for your efforts, tracking and analyzing your activities can help you identify your strengths and weaknesses, refine your str… -
Questions a CIO or CTO Might Ask in Your Next Job Interview
If you’re climbing the career ladder, you may find yourself interviewing with a senior technology leader, such as the CIO or CTO, to land your next position. Acing an interview of this magnitude… -
Simple Steps to Identify Your Niche and Build Your Brand
If your job search isn’t going well, you might be making a classic mistake: trying to be all things to all employers. When you rely on a generic resume that doesn’t specify what you’re good at, y… -
5 Signs of a Highly Competent Technical Recruiter
Whether you’re actively looking for a new job or patiently waiting for the perfect opportunity to come along, working with a highly competent tech recruiter can be extremely beneficial to your se… -
Laid Off From Big Tech? 3 Industries That are Hiring
If there’s any bright side to the layoffs among the biggest tech companies, it’s that industries starved for talent have more tech professionals to potentially choose from. Cybersecurity experts,… -
Network Administrator Resume: Template, Writing Tips, and More
Having a great résumé is the key to landing more interviews and the network administrator job of your dreams. However, with the definition of the network changing for many organizations, the role… -
Laid Off? Four Ways to Land a New Tech job Faster
Although it typically takes two to six months to find a job after a layoff, a recent survey shows that nearly four in 10 laid off tech workers have found jobs less than a month after beginning th… -
How to Negotiate a Job Offer After a Layoff
According to a study by Revelio Labs, not only are laid-off tech workers finding jobs quickly, but 52 percent are actually earning more than they were before. You might wonder why nearly half of… -
Making a Successful Transition from Big Tech to a New Industry
It’s not all bad news for the more than 275,000 workers who have been laid off from tech companies since last year. Companies in a variety of established sectors—including finance, insurance, man…