Whitridge has experienced great success over its 22 years of history; it has established itself as a leader in IT staffing especially in the financial services industry. Over the past three years, we have launched the second generation of Whitridge with expansion into the Government /Cleared space and a beginning of the development of a Healthcare IT vertical. Recently, we have expanded geographically into the Tri State (NY, CT, and NJ) area leveraging our knowledge base and experience in bankin...

The Whitridge Voice pro-cras-ti-na-tion |prəˌkrastəˈnāSHən, prō-| Noun The action of delaying or postponing something: The first tip is to avoid procrastination. Who would have thought that after decades of struggle with procrastination, the dictionary, of all places, would hold the solution?  Avoid procrastination, so elegant in its simplicity. While we’re at it, let’s make sure obese people avoid overeating, depressed people avoid apathy, and someone please tell beac...

I read a recent article on Fierce CIO that somewhat stunned me. It indicated that there is a frightening shortage of women in IT today and it does not seem to be getting better. That, along with the news that new jobs being created in the economy are in large part being created for men screams of a need to put some focus on this problem. What surprised me the most about the lack of women is the fact that the environment in IT is so suitable for both single and women with children due to the abi...

If you’re one of many employers or in our case staffing firms trying to hire high quality developers of any kind, you’ve now been introduced to the “skills shortage”. These high demand skills like .Net and Java are getting wooed by highly recognizable companies, high flying start-ups, leaders in cutting edge technology. They are getting multiple offers to change employers sometimes on the same day. I’m sure many of us in the staffing industry have several stories of high level consulta...

I read an article yesterday forwarded to me from a friend that cried out for “Temp Worker Protection,” stating that the U.S. lags behind the rest of the developed nations in “temp worker” protection. I can’t help but cry foul here for a myriad of reasons over and above that the facts are wrong; example: “usually the maximum length of an assignment is two years.” What elongated study did that come from? But the fundamental  argument  I have is with the contention that t...

Tenure - noun 1. A fixed period of time during which a person holds a job or position. 2. A status granted after a trial period. Within higher education, the word tenure elicits visions of a college professor being recognized for many years of service to their college or university.  It symbolizes reward for a distinguished career and stability for both the educator and the employer. Within consulting services the word tenure has created an entirely different context.  It imm...

For those of you that keep up with the technology staffing blogs and specifically Staffing Industry Analysts, you’ve heard a lot lately about the growing sector of Online Staffing. This technology allows a company that has tasks, either small and defined or large but capable of being divided into smaller discrete pieces, to distribute them through an online service platform to a “crowd” of prequalified, capable professionals to complete the work virtually. The estimated growth of this segm...