I recently read an article about a start-up that began with two people developing their company by collaborating remotely, one in England and one in Russia. There was no requirement for an office for their company.  As they grew organically, the additional staff they attracted were also remote; therefore, evolving into a completely remote company. In order to create as much synergy as possible, they arrived at the conclusion that they needed some method of connecting all the employees on a ...

Meet Your Whitridge IT Recruiter NAME: Dennis Condon TITLE: Staffing Specialist TIME W/ WHITRIDGE: 7 months 1.    What is your background both educationally and professionally? And how did that lead you to recruiting?  I got my BA degree in Public Relations from Iona College in New Rochelle, NY (May 2011).  Upon graduating I moved home to Boston and shortly after took on my first “real job” at John Hancock working as a Payroll Customer Service Rep. &nb...

BOSTON, MA – June 1, 2017 – Whitridge Associates, a leading business and technology staffing firm announced today they have made Forbes’ Best Professional Recruiting Firms list for providing superior service to their clients and job seekers. Forbes ranked the nation’s top 250 best professional recruiting firms ranking Whitridge Associates in the 196th position. “Every day, we focus on getting better as an organization and driving success for our clients, consultants and our internal...

Earned by less than two percent of all staffing agencies in the U.S. and Canada BOSTON, MA – February 16, 2017 – Whitridge Associates, a leading business and technology staffing firm announced today they have won Inavero’s Best of Staffing® Client and Talent Awards for providing superior service to their clients and job seekers. Presented in partnership with CareerBuilder, Inavero’s Best of Staffing winners have proven to be industry leaders in service quality based completely on the...

Recently, we asked three of our top Quality Analysts to answer questions about their role, the best ways to break into the industry, and best practices, below you will find their answers.  1.    What do you think is the best education/training for someone that is looking to become a Quality Analyst? Rajesh: SQL, Agile training, and any automation tool training. I feel all are important since Agile is the process which is helpful to work in a fast-paced environment and S...

The negative light now being shined so brightly on the H-1 program and immigration as a whole seems to be painting all foreign workers with the broad brush of either itinerant farm workers or extremely low paid technology workers, who just based on their cost alone, are taking jobs away from qualified Americans. This is based on a very select examples of misguided decisions by corporations to spit in the eye of the American worker by blatantly replacing them with outsourced H1 workers, with no v...

ITT Technical Institute, well known in the 90’s for its aggressive ads on television espousing the demand for Architects, Structural and Civil Engineers along with Computer Aided Designers, implying an unending demand for people with the skill they trained, has met its untimely death. What caused their demise was continuous, inappropriate, and unsupportable claims of placement rates, earnings capabilities, and almost a guarantee of a job after graduation, along with violation of regulations of...

Meet Your Whitridge IT Recruiter NAME: Luis Gallo TITLE: Staffing Specialist  YEARS W/ WHITRIDGE: 2 In the third installment of Meet Your Whitridge IT Recruiter, we are thrilled to introduce you to Luis Gallo, a Staffing Specialist here at Whitridge Associates. Luis brings professionalism and a sense of humor to our team and we are so happy he is part of the Whitridge family.  Q: What is your background both educationally and professionally? And how did that lead you to IT r...

Expansion Due To Client, Candidate and Consultant Demand BOSTON, MA – August 3, 2016 – Whitridge Associates, a leading business and technology staffing firm announced today the opening of its Newton, MA location. The new office expands the Whitridge footprint and will be home to Whitridge’s National Recruitment Center   and sales teams focused on supporting technology, federal and healthcare clients throughout the United States, along with candidates and consultants nationally...

Meet Your Whitridge IT Recruiter NAME: Maria Nagel TITLE: IT Staffing Specialist     YEARS W/ WHITRIDGE: 1 1/2  In our second addition of "Meet Your Whitridge IT Recruiter," we'd like to introduce you to the wonderful and talented, Maria Nagel. We asked Maria several questions about her life outside of Whitridge and how she works hard to help our IT consultants.  Q: What is your background both educationally and professionally? And how did that lead you to rec...