Having a professional and clean looking CV is the first step to achieve your professional goals. The easier you make the recruiters’ job, the more chances you have to be noticed and get your foot in the recruitment process. Taking this into account, we have decided to re-brand one of your customized CV templates. It can now be generated for free, in just a matter of seconds, to help you get the right IT job! …
“My project was canceled”, “my company is in layoff”, “I was forced to take holidays” – hearing this is becoming more and more common nowadays right? In times of crisis, it’s important that you expect the best, but are prepared for the worst scenario. It’s essential that you have your CV updated and ready to share in case you want to grab a better opportunity at any time if needed. This said, we have developed …
Have you mastered the art of building a great CV? We bet you have some doubts. Luckily, we are here to clear them for you. These are our top 7 mistakes to avoid when writing your CV. 1. Too many (and unnecessary) personal details The golden rule is to show only what’s necessary. All that information that can be used as discrimination, such as nationality, religion, and age, can – and should – be hidden. …
We all know how vital a CV is. Since it’s the “first impression” and the first point of contact with the prospective employer, you should be very careful about how it is presented. Bottom line, it represents you. Standing out in the IT industry can be daunting, specially because there are tons of highly-skilled IT professionals. What seems to be a difficult and confusing thing to do could be done easily if you only know …
After reading Niall Maher’s, Senior Front-end Developer from Ireland, great post “How to write a better CV – the web developer edition“, we have decided to reach out to him and launch our first community proposed CV template. Niall knows exactly the struggle of talented IT professionals to create a clear and accurate CV. He wants his colleagues to succeed so he gathered his best advice and created a CV template that we now call …
On the 3rd of April of 2014, Directorate-General for Innovation and Technological Support (ITEC) launched an invitation letter for all market participants to bid on a new framework contract called ITEC/ITS14. ITEC/ITS14 is a 383 million Euro framework contract launched by the European Parliament for IT services acquisition across many sites in Europe like Brussels, Luxembourg, Strasbourg, Cologne, and Lisbon. It was awarded on the last 11th of April 2015. The ITS14 framework contract has a planned duration of 60 …
Getting employed by a prestigious company in Europe begins with building a good CV. There are lots of available templates – for example, the most used CV template in the IT industry in Europe is the Europass CV. We would like to share with you five basic principles to build a good CV in the IT industry. 1. Concentrate on the essentials Employers generally spend less than one minute reading a CV before deciding to …
Today’s reality… How often do you open LinkedIn and observe extremist posts of IT consultants and recruiters complaining about each other? In one side, you have consultants complaining about the lack of feedback from recruiters and on the other side, you have recruiters complaining about the lack of collaboration and engagement from consultants. Obviously, the world is far from perfect, but fighting against each other is not the way to go. IT Consultants and recruiters …
DIGIT-TM framework contract DIGIT-TM is a 1 Billion Euro contract from the European Commission for IT services across Europe, which was awarded on the 21st of July 2018. DIGIT-TM intends to subcontract around 2.000 Information Technology professionals during its 4 years life cycle. All those professionals will need to use a specific Curriculum Vitae template imposed by the rules of the framework contract called DIGIT-TM CV template. DIGIT-TM CV template Every company that won the framework contract will …
The growth of Outsourcing in IT In the last decades, big clients (such as banks and telecom operators) started to outsource and/or externalize many parts of their business in order reduce their fixed costs and show better results to their shareholders. The outsourced areas of their companies included their IT departments. Due to the externalization of IT in big clients, the IT sector saw massive growth. IT companies that provided consulting, staffing, outsourcing, nearshoring, and …
