Monday, June 29, 2009

TEKsystems Vice President Provides Industry Expertise for TechWeb’s Insurance & Technology

Kevin Phelps, TEKsystems VP - Financial Services, offers advice to CIO's about attracting and retaining top IT talent.

HANOVER, MD > 6.18.09 TEKsystems’^®, (www.teksystems.com), Vice President – Financial Services, Kevin Phelps provides, industry expertise in TechWeb’s Information & Technology article, “Cream of the Crop: Tough times are good times for CIO’s to focus on acquiring and holding on to top IT talent.”

Phelps was quoted several times offering advice to Insurance CIO’s who want to ensure they have the right teams in place during a down economy. Phelps counsels, “Given higher levels of unemployment insurers who can afford to invest in talent have an opportunity to “top grade” their IT organizations, both through recruiting high-performers and removing dead wood.” With IT unemployment levels as low as 2.5 to 2.7 percent; Phelps recommends that CIO’s should ask themselves, “Who are my keepers? Who are the people that I want to ride out this storm with?”

Click here to read the article, “Cream of the Crop: Tough times are good times for CIO’s to focus on acquiring and holding on to top IT talent.”

Operating under United Business Media Unlimited, TechWeb provides content and tools business technology professionals need as they make strategic technology decisions through several media brands. The leading brands include InformationWeek, Interop, VoiceCon, Light Reading, Dark Reading, Black Hat, and Web 2.0 Summit.

About TEKsystems:
Ranked #1 in the industry by IT Services Business Report for eight consecutive years, TEKsystems provides technical staff augmentation and direct placement services, as well as full management of outsourced projects, technical education services, and comprehensive workforce management solutions.

With 26 years of experience in the industry, TEKsystems deploys over 22,000 technical professionals weekly and operates in 90 offices across the U.S., Canada, and Europe.

The company earns its industry-leading position by consistently providing the best technical talent to support its customers’ most critical IT initiatives. Visit TEKsystems at http://www.teksystems.com.

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