National Hire A Veteran Day was celebrated on July 25, and it got us thinking about our own efforts to hire candidates with military backgrounds.

Many organizations had been discussing how they might re-open once the COVID-19 virus was controlled enough to move forward. Those discussions, which had been mostly theoretical, were suddenly about the here and now.

News about IT hiring always seems to be a double-edged sword, so the good news about IT employment increasing is tempered by the news of a chronic skills shortage.

The good news is that IT employment will be back to pre-COVID levels soon; the bad news is that the skills gap will be back with it.