If you are on an F1 visa, there are a couple of things you will need in order to begin a lucrative career as an IT consultant. 

First, you will need to find a preferred employer.  There are many IT staffing firms out there; but it is difficult to sift through the vast sea of them in order to find one that has strong client relationships, offers decent salaries, places you in and keeps you on good projects, and provides you with proper project support.  It can be a daunting, and downright nerve-wracking task to find a company that matches your needs.

Next, you will need the proper skills needed to be successful on the job.  You have the best higher education degrees; now you need the more practical knowledge an IT project requires.  Procuring IT training in your technology of choice is an absolute must!  A good IT training program will have both technology and soft skills classes that will strengthen your learnings and give you a solid foundation for your first IT project.

Finally, you need to find the right balance for these tasks.  It can be quite difficult to juggle a job search with taking IT classes; that is, unless you can find an employer who can accommodate all of your individual needs.  Astir IT Solutions, Inc. has an F1 OPT IT training and job placement program designed specifically for F1 visa holders like yourself. 

Our F1 OPT IT Training and Job Placement Program is built around your exact needs.  We custom tailor a curriculum of IT and soft skills training classes based upon your chosen technology.    Our training programs offer flexible scheduling and both in-classroom and online courses. The IT Training and Project Placement Program includes resume preparation and interview coaching, and project placement through Astir.

The Astir IT Solutions, Inc. F1 OPT IT Training and Job Placement Program continues throughout your project; strengthening, supplementing, and adding skills as you progress throughout your career.  In conjunction with this ongoing IT training, we provide profile marketing, project placement, and project support… so each F1 OPT/CPT candidate gets the IT training they need, the project they want, and the support necessary to ensure success. We offer our employees stability and an environment that supports personal career growth.

If you are interested and want to learn more, visit us at: www.astirit.com or email us at careers@astirit.com. 

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Hello,

Business intelligence has become on of, if not the most, critical aspect for success.  Markets are more competitive than ever, and businesses have unparalleled access to data; both internally and externally.  Therefore, you have to constantly ask yourself the following question: "Does my business have both the right business intelligence tools and IT personnel necessary to be successful?"

I'd like to present you with a case study that demonstrates how The Astir Family of Companies helps clients address this question.

As a trusted technology staffing partner, we provided a client with an IT consultant who was an analytics expert in order to solve their complex data analysis and reporting problem.  The client collected and housed data across various internal departments over a period of years without any standardization.  This led to a fragmented data repository, and left the client with the inability to pull data together and create a holistic view of their environments.  As the market evolved, the need to capitalize on the data they had compiled (and would continue to collect) became more critical.

The IT consultant we placed with this client was selected due to his expertise and track record with data analytics and intelligence reporting tools.  After implementing a standardization process to cleanse and reformat both existing data and incoming data sources, a series of detailed dashboards were developed.  These dashboards provided the client with complex analysis across their Human Resources, Finance, and Accounts Payable/Receivable departments.  The complex metrics and reporting resulted in the client gaining real-time, holistic views of their internal organizations, which ultimately led to the ability to make quicker and more informed business decisions.

This is just one specific example of the types of services and solutions The Astir Family of Companies can provide your business.  We have comprehensive application development and staff augmentation services that can solve your unique business problems.  We have a long, successful history custom building business intelligence software applications and placing expert IT personnel at businesses just like yours.  We want to help you understand your technology needs, and custom design a solution that helps boost your bottom line.

Best Regards,

Adam Moltisanti

Head of Marketing and Business Analysis

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Hello,

This is the first article in a series focusing on the wonderful work our IT consultants do for our clients.  Here at Astir, we are proud of our expert IT resources, and understand that they are the reason for our success.  We invest heavily in our people so our clients can reap the benefits.  Each article in this series will focus on a specific case study where one of our IT consultants had a great, positive impact in their client project.  You can read more about these case studies HERE.

One of the many issues that faces large organizations is the ability to properly manage their technology environment.  With the sheer volume of technologies our business uses on a daily basis, it can be quite difficult to keep them all operating efficiently and synced.  There are a wide range of issues that can be throwing your IT environment out of line... it could be a matter of application versioning, broken APIs, inadequate support, etc.  Over time, organizations will accrue a number of different applications, databases, intranets, etc.; and rather than investing the time and effort to maintain them, they will invariably replace them when issues surface.

Usually this is a very expensive proposition, since proper release/change management efforts could have avoided any and all problems faced.

Then there is the added problem of training.  Often times a large organization will have multiple subject matter experts (SMEs) who specialize in a subset of their technologies.  As soon as a new person is brought on board and needs to learn multiple systems, they are forced to meet with multiple people over the course of days (if not weeks) to be brought up to speed.  This is just another example of the inefficiencies we create by not having the proper support in place.  The addition of a change/release expert to your IT team could easily answer these problems, and save your organization time, effort, (and most importantly) money.

As a real-world example, Astir IT Solutions, Inc. has a client who faced these exact issues.  They had a portfolio of over 150 applications... and lacked the expertise and manpower to properly manage, assess, and train personnel in such a vast pool of technology.  By bringing on one of our seasoned release/change management IT consultants, they were able to finally get a handle on such a huge tech portfolio.  This saved the client a tremendous amount of time, effort, and money, as this individual was able to provide impact analyses to identify what applications to utilize in what capacity, manage versions, and train users and stakeholders.  You can read more about our Release/Change Management Case Study HERE.

If you or your organization has a need for highly trained IT consultants, please feel free to email me today at contact@astirit.com.

Best Regards,

Adam Moltisanti

Manager, Marketing and Vendor Relations

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Hello,

Astir IT Solutions, Inc. is now accepting candidates for the H1 Quota.  We are looking for qualified candidates who wish to file their H1 and join Astir IT.

Qualified candidates should have at least a Bachelor's degree in a technical field, and have one of the following visa statuses:

• F1 OPT/CPT
• L1
• L2
• F2
• H4

 We are providing H1 processing and are looking for individuals who have skills including, but not limited to:

Java J2ee, .Net, Oracle Developer/DBA, Project Manager, SQL Server, Business Analyst, Data Analyst, DW/ETL Developer, Automation QA, Windows Administrator, SAN Admin, SAP, etc.

Astir IT Solutions, Inc. is hiring the best and brightest to fulfill the high volume of client requirements we receive.  We offer competitive salaries with industry leading benefits, including life insurance, health insurance, Green Card processing, and ongoing training opportunities.  If you or anyone you know is looking for H1 sponsorship, a new project, a better employer, or a higher rate, please visit us at www.astirit.com. 

Astir is an EEO Employer and a E-Verify Company.

To learn more, contact us at contact@astirit.com or (908) 279-8670 ext. 728.

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Our sister company, Astir IT Solutions, Inc. is looking for individuals who wish to transfer their H1 visa.  

If you are looking for a new employer, a better project, or a higher billing rate, please contact us today!

Astir IT Solutions, Inc. has been expanding exponentially, and needs to hire the best and brightest IT experts the market has to offer.  We have a high volume of requirements coming in from top prime vendors and direct clients and need your help to fill them.  Astir offers a comprehensive suite of benefits and extremely competitive salaries.

Benefits to becoming an Astir IT employee:

• Health Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Generous Referral Bonuses
• Ongoing Training Opportunities
• H1 and Green Card Processing Assistance
• Generous Holidays
• Etc.

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Hello,

A few months ago, Astir Analytics posted a brief whitepaper on account based marketing.  Since then, we have received many inquiries regarding our unique approach to marketing campaign measurement.  Many organizations are now trying to shift away from contact focused measurement; which is part of a greater paradigm shift within the marketing community.

The main theme of our previous article (which you can read Here) is a study of how we worked with a client in order to capture "decisions made by committee."  This is only one portion of the reasons to incorporate account level statistics into your marketing measurement.  As technology becomes ever present in all business functions, every individual, department, organization, and corporation now has a robust digital footprint.  The combination of the data made available by a marketer, and the digital engagement within a target account now necessitates a broader measurement criteria. 

If a marketer only ties marketing campaign success (via sales funnel dollars) to a single contact, they are leaving behind valuable data on how their efforts are influencing the greater account.  Traditional measures make the HUGE assumption that a single contact is the sole decision maker, and the sole point of contact for a sale.  This ignores the more likely scenario that an individual contact is only one of many avenues that lead to a single sales opportunity.  Contacts within an account are sharing marketing materials with the committee; and unless your sales person manually ties the final decision maker to your marketing campaign, you lose credit.

You can, however, measure broader influence by looking at an account holistically.  By combining marketing interaction data with sales funnel data at an account level, you can gain a more accurate view of marketing campaign effectiveness.  Inferences can be made based upon the digital footprint of an account; and campaigns can become hyper targeted based upon the digital footprints of individual account contacts.

The practice of account based marketing is still, for lack of a better term, in its' infancy.  Although the concept has been around as long as there have been marketing organizations, the associated logistics and business rules make it difficult to execute.  Astir Analytics has been working with clients in order to navigate through these muddy waters and provide actionable intelligence on an account level.  We have worked closely with clients throughout the years to develop applications that incorporate complex business rules for the combination and analysis of account level marketing campaign and sales funnel data.

Ultimately, it is our goal to provide the means for our clients to tie marketing efforts to real sales dollars... and justify their existence.

If you would like to learn more about our account based marketing solutions, please feel free to give me a call at 908-279-8670 ext. 716.

Best Regards,

Adam Moltisanti

Manager, Marketing and Vendor Relations

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Hello,

H4 EAD eligibility is practically on our doorstep.  As of May 26, 2015, H4 visa holders, whose spouses are in the Green Card process with the 140 approved, are eligible for EAD status.  This means that H4s can be able to legally work in the U.S.

This provides unparalleled employment opportunities that will require extensive training and preparation.

As an IT consulting company, Astir is constantly looking for experienced individuals to support our clients.  We are offering an IT training and job placement program designed specifically for H4 EADs.  Now's the best time to start preparing for the bevy of job opportunities that will open up after May 26.

If you are interested, or would like to learn more, please visit our website today.

Best Regards,

Adam Moltisanti

Astir Analytics

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Astir IT Solutions, Inc., the flagship of the Astir Family of Companies has shared the following blog post with Astir Analytics: 

As of May 26, 2015, H4 visa holders will be eligible for EAD status if they meet certain criteria.  If their spouse is in the Green Card process with their 140 approved, they can get an EAD card to legally work in the U.S.  

This will open a myriad of employment opportunities for H4 EADs.  And now is the best time for these candidates to prepare.

With the ever increasing use of technology by virtually every business, there has been boom in the IT consulting industry.  Astir IT Solutions, Inc. has an IT training and job placement program designed specifically for H4 EAD candidates who wish to begin a successful career in IT consulting.  This program combines IT training in a wide array of areas with resume preparation, interview coaching, job skills training, and resume marketing.  Each trainingn program concludes with project placement through Astir IT Solutions, Inc. 

Astir gives you the IT training you need, and the job you want!

We offer comprehensive IT training programs both in-classroom and online; with flexible training schedules.  These programs include:

• .NET
• Java
• UI
• Informatica
• Tableau
• Etc.

Astir has a number of long-term, successful relationships with prime vendors and direct clients.  We are seeking H4 EAD candidates in order to fill the large volume of unique projects and requirements we have.  If you are on, or eligible for, H4 EAD status, now is the best time to prepare for and start your lucrative IT consulting career.

To learn more, please visit www.astirit.com/benefits.aspx.

Best Regards,

Adam Moltisanti

Manager, Marketing and Vendor Relations

Astir IT Solutions, Inc.

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Astir Analytics has a slew of list management services that can improve your marketing and sales.  List management is one of those tasks that is often overlooked by many businesses.  Having the proper contact database in place can save your organization time and resources; and help you build your business.

Astir Analytics has list management services that can help your business create a single, centralized repository for your contact data.  From there, we can design a solution that combines and cleanses your data so you and your employees have easy access to your contact database.  

If you have fragmented contact data and need help with optimization, send me an email (amoltisanti@astiranalytics.com) so we can discuss how Astir can improve your business.

Best Regards,

Adam Moltisanti

Manager, Marketing and Vendor Relations

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