Consultant Tips, IBS Employees, Industry Trends

Staffing Insights with Corey Graves

by ArturoLeave a Comment on Staffing Insights with Corey Graves
Staffing Insights with Corey Graves

Recently we sat down with IBS Account Executive Corey Graves to discuss the state of the IT staffing industry. With over 9 years on the job, we talked in-depth about his approach to the market, as well as how he communicates, cultivates, and builds relationships with customers in his network.

As an AE, what are some of the biggest changes you’ve seen throughout your 9 years industry?

Specifically, in terms of the market, the opportunities are more plentiful than they used to be. In fact there’s more opportunities than there are candidates, which you can see reflected in the unemployment rate, especially when it comes to IT. Continue reading “Staffing Insights with Corey Graves” →

Azure, MS Teams, SharePoint Online

Office 365 January 2019 Good Reads

by Duane A. OdumLeave a Comment on Office 365 January 2019 Good Reads

There are thousands of articles, blog posts, videos and other information being generated every month for Office 365. It’s impossible to review them all but we are going to be posting our top “good reads” for Office 365 content monthly.  There may be one or two items from the Office 365 Message Center in this list occasionally but for the most part we are going to stick with community contributions that we feel may provide value for our customers and our employees.    Without further ado, please find our “good reads” for January 2019 below😉. Continue reading “Office 365 January 2019 Good Reads” →

PowerApps, SharePoint Online

Open Documents Read-Only in Modern SharePoint

by Duane A. OdumLeave a Comment on Open Documents Read-Only in Modern SharePoint

We recently were engaged on a project where we were utilizing PowerApps to present documents to employees via a kiosk application.  The employees needed the ability to edit the documents and be able to open them in Office Online by default, but during testing we noticed that employees were unintentionally modifying files in Office Online. The PowerApp was for a heavy industrial fabrication shop and the target users were often wearing welding equipment and various other safety gear so asking them to be more delicate with the tooling wasn’t really a reasonable request. Continue reading “Open Documents Read-Only in Modern SharePoint” →

.NET Core, Angular, C#, CodeMash, Conferences, Uncategorized

Codemash 2019

by Rick HerrmannLeave a Comment on Codemash 2019

Earlier this month I attended the Codemash developers conference at the Kalahari Waterpark in Sandusky, OH. This was my 11th time going to the conference and I always come back with a list of things I want to learn more about. This year was no different and overall it was probably the best one I have attended. Following are a few of the more interesting sessions I attended.

 

Best Practices for Robust API Development in ASP.NET Core

This was full day workshop that went through in detail a typical API architecture written in .NET Core and including other common packages for Dependency Injection (Autofac), Testing (XUnit), Logging (SeriLog), Mocking (Moq), API Documentation (Swagger), Object Mapping (AutoMapper), plus a working example of using MongoDB with .NET Core. Lots of good takeaways from this.

 

A Hands-on Intro to Containers

Although Docker is not new, I have not really done anything with it before. This ½ day session included an AWS instance with the prerequisites already setup so we were able to go over creating a Docker image, and using DockerHub to find existing images to work with. It was a perfect to getting-started workshop for my level of Docker experience.

 

Database Devops in Docker

This session, in addition to the Docker pre-compiler, went over some cool uses of Docker images.  The most interesting one to me was where the speaker described how each night that take a backup of the their production database, scrub the data of private information, and update an internal Docker image with the database backup.  Then each morning all of the developers can pull the new image and do their development with data that is essentially production data.

 

Service Workers and Intro to Progressive Web Apps

These were two separate sessions but they are very much related technologies.  Service Workers are a key part of Progress Web Apps. I have many years of web development experience and PWA’s are something I have been interested in learning more about.  The PWA session was a great introduction and included details on when a PWA is the appropriate choice for an app, and a lot of good examples on how to setup a PWA.

Overall I feel like the time at Codemash was well spent and as usual I have a list of new tech to on my list of things to learn more about this year.

 

Azure AD, Best Practice, Conferences, Flow, Microsoft, MS Flow, Office 365, PowerApps, SharePoint, SharePoint Online

What’s New in Office 365 (January 2019)

by Sheryl DarrochLeave a Comment on What’s New in Office 365 (January 2019)

Happy New Year! January is here – new year, new you, right? Personally, I don’t believe in all that new year’s resolution stuff. Every day is a new opportunity to live your best life. How about we stick to new year, new updates for Office 365? There are some changes that will increase security, a change that may affect network traffic, best practice guidelines, and as always, an exciting new feature to highlight.  Regarding security, Microsoft is retiring 3DES in Office 365, and sharing links that block download have begun rolling out.  If you have configured your network to restrict resource access to Azure AD IP address ranges, make sure to read the piece on Azure AD updating IP Addresses. PowerApps users will be happy to see the release of a white paper on coding guidelines and standards. And finally, the exciting new feature we are highlighting this month is reminders in SharePoint.   

Continue reading “What’s New in Office 365 (January 2019)” →

Consultant Tips, Did You Know?, Industry Trends, interview tips, recruiting, Staffing

5 Ways to Prepare Applicants for Job Interviews

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5 Ways to Prepare Applicants for Job Interviews

To secure more placements, recruiters need to put in the extra work to properly prepare their candidates for the interview process. A perfectly qualified applicant who performs poorly with the hiring manager may get passed over, and your staffing firm will have missed out on a golden opportunity. Below, we lay out a number of ways recruiters can avoid that problem, and effectively prepare their candidates prior to being interviewed. Continue reading “5 Ways to Prepare Applicants for Job Interviews” →

IBS Employees, Industry Trends, recruiting, Staffing

Interview with IBS Recruiter Keith McNeal

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Interview with IBS Recruiter Keith McNeal

We recently sat down with IBS recruiter Keith McNeal to discuss the state of the staffing business heading into 2019. With 12 years on the job, we talked about where the industry has been, where it’s going and strategies he uses to navigate the competitive field.

Were there in any changes in IT recruiting that you observed in 2018? What caused those changes in your mind?

Keith McNeal: Absolutely. The biggest thing I saw was that our clients are moving toward Contract-to-Hire work, and that there’s way less traditional contract work to go around. This is good for candidates, but is difficult for us as recruiters. Continue reading “Interview with IBS Recruiter Keith McNeal” →