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Our very own founder and CEO Heidi Golledge has been named a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the year Award in Orange County.

Each year, Ernst & Young honors high-growth entrepreneurs who have had extraordinary success in areas such as innovation, financial performance and commitment to business and community.

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By Ritika Trikha, CyberCoders Writer

Since most companies use an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) to screen thousands of candidates’ resumes, we thought you could use this handy checklist to make sure your resume passes the ATS with flying colors. 

The last thing you want is to make a minor formatting mistake that could take you out of the running for your dream job!

Check out these formatting tips to make sure your resume is ATS-proof: 

For a full article on ATS-friendly resumes, check out Get Seen with an ATS-Friendly Resume

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By Jacqueline Zenn, CyberCoders Contributor

While being a coding rockstar is undoubtedly mission No. 1 for any web developer, there are a number of other skills that will make your resume stand out from the rest – and ensure that your clients keep coming back for more.

 SEO: understanding the basic principles of search engine optimization and current best practices is a major plus for many recruiters or technical hiring managers. Since driving and growing traffic via organic search is a fairly standard objective for many web projects, so a developer who can provide a strong foundation for the search team (or even work hand-in-hand with them) will stand out in the applicant pool.

[8 SEO Basics All Tech Pros Should Know] 

PPC Management: like SEO, understanding paid search advertising (or at least what is required for a landing page to achieve high quality score) will help increase your value as a web developer. Not only does SEM and PPC knowledge make you a favorite of the marketing team (everyone loves the developer that makes their job easier), but being capable of not only building optimized landing pages, but developing and executing PPC campaigns yourself is another way to set yourself apart.

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By Heidi Golledge, CyberCoders Founder and CEO

We saw some sunshine today!

The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ announcement that the unemployment rate has dropped, combined with the Dow’s brief mid-day surge to a record 15,000, is definitely a bit of good news for the unemployed American worker.

Even better: Much of the job growth in April was in professional and business services – 73,000 jobs, to be exact. It is great to see job growth in a sector known for offering higher-quality, higher-paying jobs!

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When a hiring manager posts a job opening online, they are often deluged with resumes from a huge pool of candidates, ranging from those who are highly qualified to those who simply don’t fit the bill. And of course, sifting through hundreds or even thousands of resumes takes a lot of time, so many recruiters and HR teams use an ATS – applicant tracking system — to sort and filter resumes by keyword, ensuring that only the most suitable candidates end up being reviewed by an actual human.

An ATS is often the first line of defense for busy hiring managers – they use these systems to narrow down the field before they even set eyes on any applicant information. Among ATS users are government agencies, big corporations and many other firms that receive a large number of resumes. An understand how these programs work is essential if you wish to work for virtually any type of large company.

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CyberCoders has announced new data revealing the top 10 skills for 2013. We analyzed more than 10,000 tech companies and their hiring requirements to compile the list of the hottest skills in tech.

Our data reveals that candidates who have experience with iOS development, cloud computing programming and front-end development are most in demand in today’s tech job market.

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The CyberCoders community is coming together to help those affected by the tragedy in Boston.

From now through May, CyberCoders will donate $1 to One Fund Boston for each new “like” for the CyberCoders Facebook page.

“Above all, the mission of CyberCoders is to help people. We are proud to be a part of the nationwide effort help the victims, and the city itself, recover from this tragedy,” CyberCoders founder and CEO Heidi Golledge said.

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By Jacqueline Zenn, CyberCoders Contributor

Search engine optimization is an important part of most digital campaigns. Considering the potential traffic (and conversions!) that comes from your audience being able to easily find your site, it is hardly difficult to understand why.

Therefore, it only goes to follow that SEO skills are an important element of any web developer’s skillset, whether or not they are actually tasked with executing the SEO portion of a given project.

After all, a cleanly coded website that can be indexed properly, loads quickly and is free from the following common errors is the most valuable weapon in a search team’s arsenal.

Check out these eight SEO basics all tech pros should know:

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CyberCoders, the leading worldwide recruiting firm, today announces that its Chief Technology Officer, Matt Miller, is the honorary recipient of the Penn State Alumni Achievement Award.

The award, which is granted to 11 distinguished alumni, honors those that have achieved extraordinary and outstanding professional accomplishments at an early age. Nominations are solicited from the deans of the academic colleges in consultation with department chairpersons and faculty.

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More and more companies are getting into the business of teaching people to code.

We love that! Online tutorials, videos and exercises can help people lay a strong foundation upon which they can build in-demand tech skills and, ultimately, build careers in tech.

Treehouse, an Oregon-based startup, has set its sights on the next generation of workers: “One of the key things we’re trying to do is get people job-ready right out of high school,” founder and CEO Ryan Carson told GigaOM this week.

At the start of the year, Treehouse began a pilot coding program at a handful of schools. At one, according to Treehouse, half the participating students will be ready for tech jobs in the $30K to $50K salary range at the end of the program.

Talk about preparing students for the future!

“Companies like Treehouse, Codeacedemy, Udemy and others make beginning a tech education accessible for those looking to get into a technical career,” CyberCoders founder and CEO Heidi Golledge said.

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