The IT market is booming and the need to attract the best talent is a top priority for outsourcing companies. The shortage in the number of IT professionals, alongside the need to close the deal as fast as possible, often translates into shortcuts in the hiring process, like skipping a branded CV template. So, to make your company noticed by prospective clients, we can all agree that there is one aspect that determines the chances …
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 …
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 …
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force on 25th May 2018. Every organization that collects and processes personal data of EU citizens and residents must comply with the new regulation approved by the European Parliament. The goal of GDPR is to reinforce people’s rights to their privacy and personal data protection. Ensuring GDPR compliance within the whole organization can be a strenuous task for any organization, especially for IT recruitment departments, whose core …
Today’s reality… An unprecedented growth in the IT industry brought a high demand for IT professionals. Every day, there are so many jobs offers sent to the mailboxes and LinkedIn accounts of IT professionals, that forces each IT professional to have an updated CV always ready. When should an IT professional review his CV? Whether you are ready to apply for a new job or not, reviewing your CV regularly, to reflect the progression of …
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 …
