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Did You Learn Anything Useful in School?
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-08-29
As part of a series of back-to-school and back-to-the-daily-grind articles, eWEEK editors want know what the most important thing you learned in school was--that is, the thing that you have been able to apply in countless ways, or keep coming back to, at work everyday.
For some, it might be
Misery at the Company: Three Signs
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-08-28
What's the difference between a bad job and a miserable one? According to one author, it is more than semantics. In his new book, "Three Signs of a Miserable Job," author Patrick Lencioni says that no matter how much the two terms are used interchangeably, they are not the same
Virtual Job Interviews, Extra Worries
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-08-27
In May, Microsoft, Sodexho, T-Mobile, Verizon, Hewlett-Packard and eBay participated in an enormous job fair. What, you hadn't heard about it? That's probably because it was on Second Life.
Hosted on
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Hiring Frenzy for Microsoft Vancouver
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-08-27
In the seven weeks since Microsoft announced that it intended to open a software development center in Vancouver, British Columbia, which it hoped would "be home to software developers from around the
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'No' Is No Longer an Acceptable IT Response
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-08-24
Judging by the recent swell of coverage of the clash between employee technology and workplace technology while IT plays both the middleman and the villain, it seems that the topic is burdening more than just technology careers writers.
An Aug. 6 report by the Yankee Group noted that 50 percent
Skills Shortages Aren't Limited to Mainframes
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-08-24
Most reports about mainframes and the skill sets required to manage them are dismal, and the problem can be roughly summarized this way: Baby Boomers are about to retire and nobody is learning COBOL and other mainframe skills these days.
Soon it will be impossible for CIOs to keep their
Worker Satisfaction Is Overrated
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-08-22
What's the difference between a satisfied and an engaged employee? Only everything, argues Globoforce, a Westborough, Mass., work force solutions company.
The crux of the difference between the two is
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Digital Dirty Laundry Hurts Prospects
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-08-16
You know the old joke about what happens if you Google yourself? Well, ignore the warning and go ahead--it's better to uncover what you might find now rather than later, perhaps when you can't figure out why recruiters won't respond to your resume or why you were passed up for
Email Exacerbates Workplace Stress
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-08-15
Working late again and wondering where the day went? Are you stressed and frustrated and can't seem to get a handle on your time? Oh, look: You've got mail!
Admit it. Did you just drop everything you were doing to check an email that was, in all likelihood, some variety of
IT Teched Off at the WSJ
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-08-13
Playing on the gap between what employees do with their work computers and their IT departments' wishes that they wouldn't, The Wall Street Journal ran an article titled, "Ten Things Your IT Department Won't Tell You" July 30. Situation sound familiar?
Really, how could it not be: There is no question
Tech Competitiveness Bill Lands on President's Desk
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-08-07
Late last week, the U.S. Congress quietly approved the "America COMPETES Act," a bipartisan legislative effort to increase investment in basic research and improve the teaching of math, science
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In Big Cities, Young Women Outearn Men
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-08-06
Could the days of a gender wage gap be behind us? They sure seem to be for young, college educated women in big cities, finds an analysis of BLS data completed by the Department of Sociology at Queens College in New York, released Aug. 3.
Salaries of full-time female employees in
Slumping Market Shakes IT Confidence
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-08-03
The job market lost some luster last month as employers added only 92,000 jobs, the fewest in five months, the Labor Department reported Aug. 3.
Employment growth fell off significantly from June,
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The Graying Before the Boomer Exodus
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-08-02
Nary a day goes by that a press release doesn't cross eWEEK inboxes about the aging of the IT work force, and the potential havoc that will be wrecked upon the workplace when Baby Boomers retire, taking their substantial business knowledge and bulging head count with them.
A Forrester study released
Extending Workplace Rules to Virtual Lives
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-08-01
In what appears to be the first big corporation to create formal guidelines governing employee behavior in virtual worlds, IBM has taken the unusual step of establishing official guidelines for
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