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We host free career webinars every Tuesday for jobseekers in the tech industry! Topics range from Resume Building (with a Free Resume Review), Interview Prep, Landing Your First Job in Tech, Leverage Your LinkedIn (with a Free LinkedIn Profile Review), Making a Career Change into Tech, and more!

Stout Systems

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Stout Systems is here to help you in your job search—Michigan and beyond. We know that as a job hunter, even if you are highly qualified for a job, you are often rejected. Why? Because the artificial intelligence (AI) on the intake side didn’t find a specific word or phrase on your resume or in your application. Stout Systems uses human intelligence liberally when it comes to finding the right job for the right candidate. It looks like magic. It’s not. It’s just old-fashioned hard work and getting to know our customers and our candidates. Nonetheless, we tell people, This is where the magic happens.™ Because every team needs a slogan.

Stout Systems

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We've got new free webinars available for you! Topics include: - Would a Hiring Manager Swipe Right on You? (with Free LinkedIn Profile Review) - Making a Career Change into a Technology Field - Resume Building for Technology Professionals (with Free Resume Review) - Interview Prep for Technology Professionals - Getting Hired in the Technology Sector: Landing your First Job - Leverage Your LinkedIn (with Free LinkedIn Profile Review)

Stout Systems

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In April 2022, we celebrated our 25th anniversary in technical staffing and recruiting! In honor of this milestone of ours, we're sharing some images of our staff from 25 years ago. Some were just a twinkle in their parents eye, some were typing away on their first computer. Where were you or your company 25 years ago?

Stout Systems

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Stout Systems’ President Peg Bogema Honored with Innovation Award by National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) at Annual Top 10 Michigan Business Women Awards 2022

Stout Systems

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We host FREE career webinars every week on Zoom! Topics include career management, career advancement, resume building (with a free ruthless resume review!), interview prep, and career changers in the tech industry. Visit our webinar calendar!

Stout Systems

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We've got a lot of information technology job openings! If you find a position of interest, please submit your resume directly for that position. Or you can send us your resume with no particular position in mind. We will be happy to review it and let you know if we think we have an opportunity that is a good fit now—or will in the near future.

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We hosting a free career webinar series on Career Planning and Advancement. This is one of our most popular weekly free webinars. A Tech Career Road Map - Do you have one? Do you need one? And are you prepared if the road gets bumpy? This webinar series covers everything you need to know about career management and planning for the technology field. Topics will include: - What is career management all about? - The realities of employment and compensation - Getting your resume in shape NOW, before you need it - Maintaining a strong online presence that will allow opportunities to find you, aka the savvy person’s way to achieve career advancement - Maximizing your earning potential - Capitalizing on your personal growth - Increasing your overall career satisfaction - Be prepared for ANYTHING Part 1 will cover the concept of career management and the resume. Additionally, part 2 will review career management and cover online presence for technology professionals.

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Is it Time to Review Your Software Practices? - Using the right software development methodology? Check. - Up to date tech stack? Check. - Software development practices current? Huh? Regardless of your tech stack or methodology, having good software development practices in place helps your team achieve quality and reduces risk. They also increases job satisfaction for the entire team and make it easier to onboard new hires. But contrary to popular belief, there isn’t any such thing as “best practices.” What’s right for one team or project might be fatal for another. Ideas about good software development practices are constantly evolving. That’s why every software development team should pause and conduct a Software Practices Review. In this free Webinar we will discuss how to go about conducting a Software Practices Review and give you a baseline set of practices to examine.

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How to Improve Your Task Estimates by 0% to 1,000% (Lunch & Learn) [Presented by Dave Sweeton, Chief Technologist, Stout Systems] You can write a data aggregation query and integrate external authentication APIs. On a good day, you can even craft a perfect Regex! But can you tell your boss (or client) -- with a reasonable degree of certainty -- how long it will take to do it? In our experience, estimating is the Achilles heel of many developers who are otherwise superhero developers. Is there any way that you can improve when it comes to this critical task? Or if you?re already freakishly good at it, can you help the rest of your team improve? Join us as Dave Sweeton, an excellent estimator himself, shares advice that will improve your software estimation skills by 0 to 1,000%! This talk is back by popular demand, having debuted at CodeMash 2019 to a full house!