It’s hiring time again here at Anchor1 and that means we’ve been sifting resumes. Lots of them. We’d like to offer some advice. There’s no shortage of advice on what to put in a resume, how to format it, and how to highlight the most salient terms. All that still applies, but our advice is […]
Regular readers of this blog will know that we’re hiring – we’re always hiring, in fact, and we’re going to be talking about it more in the near future. Hiring good people is really hard, so a smart company is always ready to scoop up a great candidate when they crop up. Hiring is hard […]
Hiring good staff is hard. As a company that revolves around employing Very Smart People, we know this very well. (And if you’re a Very Smart Person that can get stuff done, please get in touch) Plenty of companies have written about their hiring processes and the brilliant methods (“tricks” if you will) they’ve found […]
As people may have noticed, Anchor has been recruiting a lot of new staff in recent times. Apart from the usual sysadmin technical staff, we’ve been actively looking for extra sales champions too. Now I’ve been recruiting technical staff for quite a few years, and for the most part, both Anchor as a company and […]
(This is the second part in a two-part series on getting your first job in IT. Part 1 of the series covers getting a job in the first place; this article is about the sort of job you can expect when you’re starting out) Working in IT, like anything in life, is a learning curve. […]
Nobody in the IT industry was born with into it. At some point in the (distant?) past, every one of us was in the position of looking for (or falling into) our first job in the industry. I think us old hands forget how daunting that process was, the memory having been dimmed by the […]