<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214813673214905612</id><updated>2012-02-15T23:13:26.287-08:00</updated><category term='John Sule'/><category term='HTPartners'/><category term='IT'/><title type='text'>Chicago's Top IT Talent</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chicagostopittalent.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8214813673214905612/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chicagostopittalent.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Chicago IT Talent</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18281172782402817007</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rvuJ_xUZSuQ/TZGD7IZ4LCI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Ihw-Ld74fmU/s220/John_Sule_Image.png'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>8</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214813673214905612.post-218299959718648442</id><published>2011-10-11T17:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-11T18:04:16.355-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='HTPartners'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IT'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='John Sule'/><title type='text'>2011 IT Skills and Salary Report</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="post-header"&gt;&lt;div class="post-header-line-1"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-7780937515316614110"&gt;For the fourth year in a row, Global Knowledge and TechRepublic have partnered to create a comprehensive IT salary survey. With over 12,000 responses, the 2011 report has turned out to be one of this year's most relevant and revealing salary surveys in the industry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.globalknowledge.com/training/generic.asp?pageid=2913&amp;amp;country=United+States"&gt;http://www.globalknowledge.com/training/generic.asp?pageid=2913&amp;amp;country=United+States&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Horizon Technology Partners, Inc.&lt;br /&gt;1316 W, Northwest Hwy,&lt;br /&gt;Palatine, IL 60067 United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;John Sule&lt;br /&gt;V.P. Sales&lt;br /&gt;Tel: 847.202.3242&lt;br /&gt;jsule@htpartners.com&lt;br /&gt;www.htpartners.com&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8214813673214905612-218299959718648442?l=chicagostopittalent.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chicagostopittalent.blogspot.com/feeds/218299959718648442/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://chicagostopittalent.blogspot.com/2011/10/2011-it-skills-and-salary-report_11.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8214813673214905612/posts/default/218299959718648442'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8214813673214905612/posts/default/218299959718648442'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chicagostopittalent.blogspot.com/2011/10/2011-it-skills-and-salary-report_11.html' title='2011 IT Skills and Salary Report'/><author><name>Chicago IT Talent</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18281172782402817007</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rvuJ_xUZSuQ/TZGD7IZ4LCI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Ihw-Ld74fmU/s220/John_Sule_Image.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214813673214905612.post-3960787543106728213</id><published>2011-10-07T18:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-07T18:51:11.137-07:00</updated><title type='text'>3 Million Overseas Jobs Coming Home - Diane Sawyer</title><content type='html'>3 Million Jobs Once Outsourced to China Forecast to Return to the U.S. &lt;a href="http://ow.ly/6R6YQ"&gt;http://ow.ly/6R6YQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8214813673214905612-3960787543106728213?l=chicagostopittalent.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chicagostopittalent.blogspot.com/feeds/3960787543106728213/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://chicagostopittalent.blogspot.com/2011/10/3-million-overseas-jobs-coming-home.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8214813673214905612/posts/default/3960787543106728213'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8214813673214905612/posts/default/3960787543106728213'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chicagostopittalent.blogspot.com/2011/10/3-million-overseas-jobs-coming-home.html' title='3 Million Overseas Jobs Coming Home - Diane Sawyer'/><author><name>Chicago IT Talent</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18281172782402817007</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rvuJ_xUZSuQ/TZGD7IZ4LCI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Ihw-Ld74fmU/s220/John_Sule_Image.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214813673214905612.post-3922500828254322749</id><published>2011-10-07T18:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-07T18:23:19.907-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Outsourcing: Cheaper IT Solutions May Come At A Higher Cost</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://ow.ly/6QOwi"&gt;http://ow.ly/6QOwi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8214813673214905612-3922500828254322749?l=chicagostopittalent.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chicagostopittalent.blogspot.com/feeds/3922500828254322749/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://chicagostopittalent.blogspot.com/2011/10/outsourcing-cheaper-it-solutions-may.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8214813673214905612/posts/default/3922500828254322749'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8214813673214905612/posts/default/3922500828254322749'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chicagostopittalent.blogspot.com/2011/10/outsourcing-cheaper-it-solutions-may.html' title='Outsourcing: Cheaper IT Solutions May Come At A Higher Cost'/><author><name>Chicago IT Talent</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18281172782402817007</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rvuJ_xUZSuQ/TZGD7IZ4LCI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Ihw-Ld74fmU/s220/John_Sule_Image.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214813673214905612.post-1044218694238409403</id><published>2011-10-07T18:21:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-07T18:21:33.188-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Chicago Area - Latest Consumer Price Index Statistics</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://ow.ly/6QPse"&gt;http://ow.ly/6QPse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8214813673214905612-1044218694238409403?l=chicagostopittalent.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chicagostopittalent.blogspot.com/feeds/1044218694238409403/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://chicagostopittalent.blogspot.com/2011/10/chicago-area-latest-consumer-price.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8214813673214905612/posts/default/1044218694238409403'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8214813673214905612/posts/default/1044218694238409403'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chicagostopittalent.blogspot.com/2011/10/chicago-area-latest-consumer-price.html' title='Chicago Area - 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Dept. of Labor - Update - October 2011</title><content type='html'>&lt;h2&gt;Computerworld's annual survey reveals what key roles earn across the United States -- how do you compare?&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf"&gt;http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8214813673214905612-2195888271074347294?l=chicagostopittalent.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chicagostopittalent.blogspot.com/feeds/2195888271074347294/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://chicagostopittalent.blogspot.com/2011/10/us-employment-situation-dept-of-labor.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8214813673214905612/posts/default/2195888271074347294'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8214813673214905612/posts/default/2195888271074347294'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chicagostopittalent.blogspot.com/2011/10/us-employment-situation-dept-of-labor.html' title='US Employment Situation - Dept. of Labor - Update - October 2011'/><author><name>Chicago IT Talent</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18281172782402817007</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rvuJ_xUZSuQ/TZGD7IZ4LCI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Ihw-Ld74fmU/s220/John_Sule_Image.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214813673214905612.post-11340991509621391</id><published>2011-03-29T08:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-07T14:49:16.788-07:00</updated><title type='text'>IT Strategy, Execution &amp; Performance Excellence</title><content type='html'>&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;Horizon Technology Partners&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Horizon Technology Partners has been helping some of the most &lt;br /&gt;Successful Companies in America meet the Challenge &lt;br /&gt;of Hiring Top IT Talent for the past 15 years. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.outboundexcellence.com/Horizon_Technology_Partners.htm"&gt;http://www.outboundexcellence.com/Horizon_Technology_Partners.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Specialties&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects, ITIL, Business  Alignment, PMs, Project Leads&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; Business Analysis, Systems Analysis and Design  Work.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;D&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;atabase Architecture, Database Modeling, in Oracle and SQL  Server.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;SharePoint, .Net, LAMP, RIA with Silverlight, Flash, and  Flex.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Quality Assurance with Mercury/HP/QTP and Visual Studio Team  system&lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;Experienced &amp;amp; Knowledgeable Account Management Teams&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We hire our Account Management Team directly from the industry and market segments they serve so they are keenly aware of the changing trends in their assigned industry / market segments and as such&amp;nbsp; they look deeper into the backgrounds and skills of IT candidates to ensure they can meet your short term as well as long term needs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;Target Industry &amp;amp; Market Specializations &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt; Telecommunications&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Automobile&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Financial&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Retail&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Manufacturing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Healthcare&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hospitality&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fast, Efficient &amp;amp; Affordable&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Our 15 years of experience in Chicagoland IT Staffing has allowed us to build an extensive network of Top IT Talent so that when a client need arises, we can quickly and effectively reach out to candidates that meet each client's Ideal Sales Candidate profile&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; Knowing the profiles of Top IT Talent and having the ability to quickly reach out to these candidates significantly reduces staffing costs on our end which makes our staffing services affordable and provides a highly competitive ROI.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;Staffing Service Offerings&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Horizon Technology Partners provides permanent, contract, or contract-to-hire basis&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;Have IT Staffing Needs?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are a Chicagoland business and have an IT Staffing need, please give me a call:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Horizon Technology          Partners&lt;br /&gt;Joun Sule - VP of Business Development&lt;br /&gt;312-310-0761&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.htpartners.com/"&gt;www.htpartners.com/&lt;/a&gt;          &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:jsule@htpartners.com"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;jsule@htpartners.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8214813673214905612-11340991509621391?l=chicagostopittalent.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://chicagostopittalent.blogspot.com/feeds/11340991509621391/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://chicagostopittalent.blogspot.com/2011/03/it-strategy-execution-performance.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8214813673214905612/posts/default/11340991509621391'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8214813673214905612/posts/default/11340991509621391'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://chicagostopittalent.blogspot.com/2011/03/it-strategy-execution-performance.html' title='IT Strategy, Execution &amp; Performance Excellence'/><author><name>Chicago IT Talent</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18281172782402817007</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rvuJ_xUZSuQ/TZGD7IZ4LCI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Ihw-Ld74fmU/s220/John_Sule_Image.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
