Odyssey Blog
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 a Managed Services Provider
Production support is a never-ending, relentless job. From IT management to the guys on call, you just 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’re the entire IT department. There’s no doubt [...]
Odyssey’s Kristin Hughes Wins 2021 SourceCon Grandmaster Challenge
On the heels of its 20th anniversary, Odyssey Information Services is celebrating another milestone: Its first SourceCon Grandmaster Challenge champion. Kristin Hughes, director of recruiting and senior technical recruiter, recently was announced winner of the 2021 global sourcing competition that places talent acquisition professionals in a race against the clock to find people online [...]