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Don’t Neglect Your Professional Goals for 2022
Don’t Neglect Your Professional Goals You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take – Wayne Gretzky New Year’s resolutions aren’t just for personal goals! Your team, department, career or professional development can also benefit from setting a few goals. If you are like me, this time of year I find...
Know Your Value in Today’s Marketplace
You are the CEO of You Inc. It's up to you to know what’s needed in today's market. Want a promotion? Want a raise? Want to land your dream job? Make yourself more valuable by optimizing yourself and your skills so that you can experience new career success levels. A recent Forbes...
Ghosting is on the rise, and it’s affecting your interviewing
Don’t keep them waiting - Time is a deal killer Weeks of research, preparation and interviewing all leads you to the one. The one job that could accelerate your career path. The one candidate that could instantly make a difference on your team. Then silence…. You get no response. You’ve...
Bridge the Talent Gap
How to achieve business objectives when your team doesn’t want to return to the office You’re between a rock and hard place, aren’t you? Leadership wants everyone back in the office but your team doesn’t want to return in-person…yet. Over the last year, people grew accustomed to...
The Right Number of Interviews
How many interviews does it take to get to the hiring decision? It all started with a LinkedIn post. Frustrated with a lengthy (9 rounds) interview process, a software engineer removed his name from consideration at his dream company. “Companies think they are building processes...
Elevate Your Job Search: Techniques To Stand Out In A Noisy Marketplace
Job search has changed, interviews have changed, resumes have changed - in the last year, everything we once knew has flipped on its head. You already have the tools to manage a successful career transition, so now let’s talk about how to create a competitive advantage in your job...
The job market is transitioning (quickly), can you adapt to keep up?
“Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” —John F. Kennedy “You’re gonna need a bigger boat” … once applied to a monstrous (yet fictional) shark. Now the same applies to our approach to landing the “big sharks” of the IT and...
Remote, In Office or Hybrid? Why Some Employees Are Not Happy About Returning To The Office
Why Some Employees Are Not Happy About Returning To The Office You can’t make everyone happy. As leaders plan to open offices and prepare for employees to return, employees are anxious about returning and losing the newly found work-life balance of remote work. Before COVID,...
We Win When You Do, Since 1983
We Win When You Do, Since 1983 We know that building and maintaining trust is just as important as performance to our clients and our reputation. This is why working together to build a lasting and productive relationship is important to every team member at Whitaker....
Why It’s Ok to Not Do Everything Yourself
STOP THINKING THAT SUCCESS IS SOMETHING YOU ACHIEVE "ALL BY YOURSELF" We are all professionals - highly educated and trained in our specialty - sometimes it’s easier to do it ourselves instead of asking for help. I get it. I’m also guilty of trying to do everything myself, but...
Do You Love Your Job? Happy employees are up to 20% more productive…find out why
ENSURE YOUR TEAM IS HAPPY, ENGAGED AND STAYS PRODUCTIVE “Houston… we have a problem”. Well, this time it’s not the astronauts and it’s not in space, it’s right here on terra (not so) firma. As Texas experiences record-breaking weather, we are reminded – especially after...
Should you be prepared for turnover?
The workplace experienced cost-cutting measures as the first wave of COVID-19 impact and is now potentially facing turnover as the second wave. Are employees feeling the pain of taking on additional responsibilities after layoffs? People will happily take on additional work because...
Innovating During a Pandemic without Going Broke – Yes, even if Your Team is Slammed
Guest contributor: Jeff Roberts, founder of Innovation Vista, an IT strategy consultancy Download white paper “Companies must innovate or die”. “Record-setting innovation investments poised to disrupt many industries”. Headlines like these proliferate business journals and have become...
Remote Leadership Tips from Industry Leaders
“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” — Henry Ford Remote Leadership Tips from Industry Leaders Cooler temperatures have finally arrived in Texas, but seasons aren’t the only thing changing around here! As all companies...
Boost Your Personal Brand
Boost Your Personal Brand While professionals can showcase their technical skills on sites like GitHub or Stack Overflow, going a step further to maintain a comprehensive personal brand can strengthen their reputation and increase their network. Personal branding is a combination of...
