From time to time, UDig is going to feature an interview with one of our IT consultants out in the field. This week, we feature Matt, a software developer with an insurance company in Richmond, Va. He was placed by UDig in March 2010. What trends are you seeing in IT that are specific to [...]

Check out this article on CNN Money about Bill Gates’ favorite teacher, Sal Khan. His website is absolutely amazing…like an entire college education on a single page: www.khanacademy.org.

Interesting article in Fortune Magazine about Job Sites.  Building relationships whether through social networks or through personal relationships is still the most effective way to find a job. http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/06/03/job-sites-are-they-worth-it/?section=magazines_fortune&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+rss/magazines_fortune+(Fortune+Magazine)

UDig is excited to be sponsoring three user group meetings in the Richmond area over the next few weeks. These meetings are designed for people to share information and ideas about specific technologies in their fields. These events regularly showcase outstanding local subject matter experts who share their expertise with the technology community. It’s also a [...]

Can Social Media affect your job search? Positively or Negatively? With the age of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and MySpace you can find out many things about a person before actually meeting them. So what does your profile say about you? Are you putting your best foot forward on the social internet. Just as your friends [...]

From InformationWeek: A Federally funded program to trian offshore IT workers.  http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/integration/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=226500202&subSection=News Excerpt: To help fill workforce gaps in BPO and IT, USAID is teaming up with leading BPO and IT/English language training companies to establish professional IT and English skills development training centers,” the U.S. Embassy in Colombo, Sri Lanka, said in a statement [...]

Great article posted on ERE.net this morning about not doing your due diligence in hiring.  – UDig The Cost of a Bad Hire: Butts in Chairs and How to Convince Hiring Managers to Avoid Them – ERE.net via The Cost of a Bad Hire: Butts in Chairs and How to Convince Hiring Managers to Avoid [...]

With a higher applicant pool these days, the telephone interview is by far becoming more and more popular.  Many employers and staffing firms are conducting phone interviews in an effort to screen out candidates who might not fit in well with the company or client.  Companies are so inundated with job applicants that phone interviews [...]

A lot of people have been there before, right. There are certain elements of your current position that you just can’t deal with anymore. You are fed up and decide it’s time to make a change. You get excited about new opportunities that are springing up, and ultimately, you get that offer for exactly the [...]

Your resume is the first impression you leave on a potential hiring manager.  Unfortunately, in today’s IT market, a good resume can only get you an interview where a bad one eliminates you from the running altogether.  Feedback often heard from hiring managers in the IT industry is “I can’t tell how much experience they [...]