The season of giving is here, and while we wish for good deeds as both individuals and as a company to permeate throughout the year, we like to give back especially around the holiday season. A few members of our Denver team donated time from their Monday morning to volunteer at Urban Peak, the only… Read More »
Quarterly Newsletter – Issue #83
Accelerating Results with Information Technology Watch this video to see what our talented professionals do with information technology for our clients across the U.S. State of the Industry: 2019 Takeaways, 2020 Outlook Blackstone conducts both its own research and participates in several annual events in the resource service industry. Below are handpicked takeaways that we… Read More »
Are You an Effective Leader? Ask Yourself These 5 Questions
The end of the year allows is a natural time to reflect on your leadership style. 2019 was a challenging year for recruiting new employees, and most leaders realize their approach to their job had an impact both on the organization’s ability to bring in new talent and keep them. Most polls show that employee engagement is… Read More »
How to List Contract Work on Your Tech Resume
Resumes are hard. Technology workers can be exposed to a variety of software and hardware combinations over the years, which can make a resume run too long. Today’s job market includes freelance and contract work, in addition to full-time roles. All of this can make a resume read poorly or make it overly complex. How… Read More »
What Makes a Successful Employee Evaluation?
Evaluating employees in the IT field can be difficult because the roles they perform are often so highly technical. New managers may not have the technical acumen to judge the quality of the skills the employee exhibited over the evaluation period. But there is also the human element to an evaluation that makes the process… Read More »
Are You Making These 3 Common Job Search Mistakes?
You know the unemployment market is low and there are a plethora of technology jobs out there. But your protracted job search hasn’t yielded any results. You’re probably wondering if you’re doing something wrong. We’ve compiled a few of the most common job mistakes that we see holding back technology candidates from finding their next… Read More »
Cutting the Cost of a Data Breach
The numbers are terrifying: IBM and the Ponemon Institute say the average cost of a corporate data breach is now $3.92 million per incident. Digital Guardian says the costs are harder to quantify, changing by industry and ranging from $1.25 to $8.19 million. But the latest studies show data breaches are gifts that keep on giving; much of the cost associated with these incidents occur even years… Read More »
An AFAC Thanksgiving
The Blackstone’s DC team spent the morning volunteering at the Arlington Food Assistance Center (AFAC) in South Arlington, VA. The team got the opportunity to hand out food tickets, package food to be ready for distribution, and pre-prep Thanksgiving Day food for many of the 2,400 families who receive food from AFAC each week. The… Read More »
Taking Advantage of the Tight Labor Market
Attention employees – in a tight labor market, you have the upper hand. At least for as long as the labor market remains at historically low levels. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says that unemployment is still around 3.9% and in 2018 wages went up a bit. This means the American worker can expect employers… Read More »
How to Identify a High Performing Tech Candidate in the Interview
A developer can do well on a coding test, but stymie a project because of their arrogance. A project manager can have all the skills on paper but fail to deploy on the ground. UX designers can have a great portfolio but push too hard for their vision without taking into account the end-user. These… Read More »