Odyssey Blog
How to make your resume stand out
Your resume is your first impression with a hiring manager. Not only do you want the hiring manager to clearly understand how your skills will bring success to their company, you are also competing against dozens or even hundreds of other resumes just to get seen. Kristin Hughes and Shelley Casino—two recruiting experts with Odyssey Information [...]
5 Best Practices to Avoid Job Offer Rejections
Job offer rejections are on the rise in this crazy competitive job market. What can employers and hiring managers do reduce this headache or avoid it altogether? Kristin Hughes, Shelley Casino and Ben Coan—three recruiting experts with Odyssey Information Services—participated in a LinkedIn Live webcast where they discussed hiring best practices that will help organizations [...]
How Improving Database Performance Leads to Smarter Business Decisions
Data holds valuable insight into organizational productivity, customer habits, and proactive decision making. Unfortunately, most businesses fail to recognize their operational data as their most valued asset simply because it doesn’t appear directly on any financial statements. As a result, business leaders often fall short of utilizing their data to the fullest potential. In [...]
A Professional’s Guide to Becoming PCI Compliant
Industry security standards, including PCI compliance requirements, are becoming stricter every year as security breaches at large corporations drive the need for tighter controls and audit processes. Platforms have grown in power and reliability, attracting more solutions that have expanded access to internal and external business data and networks. Old practices such as security [...]
IT Incident Management: How to Create Accurate Support Documentation that Reduces Downtime
When your IT systems are unexpectedly interrupted, how and why the incident occurred doesn’t matter. At least not in the moment. The only thing that matters during an abrupt downtime is getting your business up and running again as quickly as possible. This is why every business should have an IT incident management plan [...]
IT Infrastructure Monitoring: 6 Reasons to Partner with an MSP
There’s no doubt IT infrastructure monitoring and management are critical to your organization’s success. You don’t know what could go wrong or when. Hardware problems at any hour, batch not completing at night, telecom issues, software updates gone wrong—the list is long, especially when you alone are the entire IT department. IT production support [...]