You’re Hired! 101

John E. Kosar, III

You’re Hired! 101For IT Professionals

• Leading Market Segments• Using Social Media• The Perfect Resume• Search Detectives• P.I. and F2F Interviews• The Offer!

Leading Market Segments

Fortune 2/14/11

Software is the invisible thread running through everything, and the demand is only going to increase.” 1

“Fisher, Anne. “Finally, signs of life in the tech job market.”

•Software Engineer ranks as the Best Jobs of 2011.

•Computer System Analysts rank in the top 5.

•Information services, growing steadily. Payrolls grew by 16% through modest gains almost every month, creating around 20,000 new jobs since 2007.

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Leading Market Segments

1,400 CIOs surveyed, 43% said that “retaining existing workers will be their top staffing priority”.

Mobile Technologies Rule and is expected to do the same year after year.

April Staffing Industry Report webinar on April 12, 2011.

The Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI) reports that the short term economic outlook remains positive. Unemployment rates continue to decrease slowly, to 4.6%.

IT Employment continued its month-over-month climb last month growing for the 18th consecutive month.

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Leading Market Segments

Top Five Hottest Jobs

Java or .NET Developer Project Manager

Database Administrator IT Security Manager

Application Architect

Java or .NET Developer Project Manager

QA with Development Systems Engineer

Network Analyst

Using Social Media

• 1 out of 2,600 hiring managers, 45% reported using social networking sites to research job candidates backgrounds for information that verified – or supplemented.

• What is the most popular social media site used by recruiters?

Using Social Media

• Per a recent Microsoft survey, more than 79% of recruiters review online information about candidates.

• Per a Careerbuilder.com survey, 35% of recruiters said that they have eliminated candidates who had no online search results or unflattering search results

Close to 100% of recruiters and 75% of hiring managers use LinkedIn to

source/research candidates.

The Perfect Resume

Search Detectives

The Phone Interview• Know Thy History: If you wrote it, own it• Reflections: Voice, Posture, Expression• Ping Pong Match• Ask for the Face to Face Interview

The Face to Face Interview

The Face to Face Interview• My Strongest Skills• My Greatest Areas of Knowledge• My Greatest Personality Strengths• The Things I do best• My Key Accomplishments

The Offer!

“I’m confident you will make me a fair and competitive offer.”

Thank YOU!