Fear of Real Communication

Fear of Real Communication

Blog, IT, IT Job Market
By: Michelle Delbo, Director at Blackstone Staffing Services What is the most effective way communicating with one another? In today’s world, it’s texting, Snap-chatting, social media, emails or simply not responding. Technology has brought amazing positive changes in communication, however, it’s also taught us to stop verbally communicating. It’s challenging trying to prove that having a conversation is truly the best way to deliver any message, good or bad. Especially with the ease and efficiency of how many people you can talk to with all the avenues we have at our fingertips (literally). I recently had a conversation (aka via text) with a girl I was trying to give directions too. I asked if I could call her and she said, “text is better for me.” However, I insisted, and…
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Bay Area Jobs vs. Skills – Current Supply/Demand

Bay Area Jobs vs. Skills – Current Supply/Demand

Blog, IT, IT Job Market
Linkedin compared the skills profiles of their San Francisco Bay Area members (in May) to the job postings for San Francisco Bay Area employment (in May) to compare “Supply and Demand”. The Supply is the skills that exist among member profiles and the Demand is the skills sought after in current job postings. Here are their top ten “Most Abundant” skills which means that the number of people in the Bay Area with these skills exceeds the employer demand for the skills (currently). May 2018 – Most Abundant Skills in San Francisco Bay Area 1. Perl/Python/Ruby 2. Cloud and Distributed Computing 3. Integrated Circuit Design 4. Mobile Development 5. C/C++ 6. Other Software Development Skills 7. Scripting Languages 8. Java Development 9. Algorithm 10. Software User Testing And here are…
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Bay Area Trends

Bay Area Trends

Blog, IT Job Market
Bay Area Trends – Blog Contribution from Michelle Delbo, Director of Staffing Services at Blackstone Technology Group in San Francisco.  Michelle is a regular at our East Bay CIO Roundtable Meetings and offers many years of perspective with her insights into current staffing and IT Resource Trends. My name is Michelle Delbo and I am the Staffing Services Sales Director in the San Francisco office of Blackstone Technology Group. I have been in the staffing industry for over 20 years, with 18 of those working at Blackstone to deliver a wide variety of talented business and information technology resources to companies across the greater bay area During my career, my team and I have helped Silicon Valley clients navigate the evolving trends in the marketplace. This has helped them stay…
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