Est. 2008 · Digital Edition · June 14, 2026

SMB IT Journal

The Information Technology Resource for Small Business

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IT Hiring

7 articles filed under IT Hiring.

IT’s Most Needed Skills

IT does not exist in a bubble. IT is a business enabler, a way of taking an existing business and making it more efficient, cost effective, nimble and capable. Except for home hobbyist, and even…

April 24, 2017

Why We Avoid Contract to Hire

Information Technology workers are bombarded with “Contract to Hire” positions, often daily. There are reasons why this method of hiring and working is fundamentally wrong and while workers…

October 21, 2015

Better IT Hiring: Contract To Hire

Information Technology workers are bombarded with “Contract to Hire” positions, often daily. There are reasons why this method of hiring and working is fundamentally wrong and while workers…

February 11, 2015

The Home Line

In many years of working with the small and medium business markets I have noticed that the majority of SMB IT shops tend to one of two extremes: massive overspend with an attempt to operate like…

November 20, 2014

IT Generalists and Specialists

IT Professionals generally fall into two broad categories based on their career focus: generalists and specialists. These two categories actually carry far more differences than they may at first…

October 4, 2014

Contract to Hire

There are so many horrible hiring practices commonly used today one hardly knows where to begin. One of the most obviously poor is the concept of “Contract to Hire” positions. The concept is simple…

August 23, 2013

Hiring IT: The Reverse Interview

Corporate interviewers often forget that interviews are a two way street: yes the company is interviewing the hopeful job candidate, but that candidate is interviewing the company as well. Unless you…

June 10, 2011