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Study Reveals Technology Adoption Is Off at Work
By Donald Sears | Posted: 2009-10-09
The headline for a recent Forrester report should be: "If you build it, they won't come."
Forrester's "Workforce Technographics US Benchmark Survey" from the second quarter of
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Analysts: Potential New H-1B Visa Clauses a Nuisance, No Game Changer
By Donald Sears | Posted: 2009-10-05
Republican Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley is pushing for reform in the H-1B visa program and recently urged the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to ask
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Homeland Security Hiring 1,000 Cybersecurity Technology Jobs
By Donald Sears | Posted: 2009-10-02
As part of the kick of for National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the Department of Homeland Security recently announced that it will hire 1,000 top security professionals to
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Does Your CIO Push Back Enough?
By Donald Sears | Posted: 2009-09-24
It may be the most common scenario in IT. Too many projects, and not enough staff to handle the work.
Add a down economy, the downsizing of staff, trimming of costs, and pressure to get strategically competitive projects up and running yesterday, and you have a stress cauldron boiling over
Are Project Managers Too Focused on Technology and Tasks?
By Donald Sears | Posted: 2009-09-21
Technology projects rarely go off without a hitch. We all know it, and we all have seen and absorbed an unnecessary amount of stress, blame and headaches from projects gone wrong.
Why do
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Looking for Tech Work? Uncle Sam Wants You!
By Donald Sears | Posted: 2009-09-15
We've all heard about government jobs, but where are they? Well, the government has a pretty good-looking Website that will tell you exactly what it is looking for, and where the jobs are located.
There is a projected total of 11,549 IT employees to be hired by the U.S. government between
Readers React on How Offshoring May Be Hurting IT Workers
By Donald Sears | Posted: 2009-09-14
Readers of the recent eWEEK article "How Offshoring May Be Hurting U.S. Technology Workers" has garnered many comments expressing a wide of range of emotional and economic anger,
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The Decline of Silicon Valley Jobs
By Donald Sears | Posted: 2009-09-09
I mentioned the decline of jobs in Silicon Valley in passing in an article on IT jobs for the fourth quarter yesterday, but it's really worthy of its own post.
The loss of 85,000 jobs over a seven-year period is not something to gloss over.
That's right. The Bureau of Labor
How Social Media May Be Hurting Jobs
By Donald Sears | Posted: 2009-09-04
While it's not clear that social media is going to take over as the best public relations tool of the century, the uses of Facebook, Twitter and other social networks for marketing and promotions are certainly changing how consumers and workers use and react to products and services.
A recent
Steve Jobs Wanted to Make a Deal on Employee Poaching
By Donald Sears | Posted: 2009-09-03
Legal fees. No one wants to pay them, and no one wants to lose innovation while being mired in a legal battle over an employee. That seems to be at the heart of a deal that Steve Jobs tried to strike with smartphone competitor Palm.
As first reported by Bloomberg
Facebook Continues to Hire, While Keeping Costs at Bay
By Donald Sears | Posted: 2009-08-28
Facebook is expanding its employee base, but not by as much as you might have read, says a NY Times blog.
Facebook has hired more than 200 new employees in 2009. That makes about 1,200 employees in total, but it plans on growing that this year.
But in a recent interview with
Tech Companies That Pay Really Well in Silicon Valley
By Donald Sears | Posted: 2009-08-25
Money talks, as the saying goes. It also makes the world go around, and it's also something we all need and want.
Cliched songs aside, when I came across this list of the highest-paying technology companies from Om Malik, who got it from a customer satisfaction company called Glassdoor.com that's
The State of Technology Layoffs, Jobs in Boston
By Donald Sears | Posted: 2009-08-23
Some recruiters are saying they see a decline in big chunks of layoff numbers in the Boston area, says a recent post from Dice.com. However, that same post doesn't paint the rosiest picture if you were one of the unfortunate folks let go from the companies listed.
The recent layoffs appear
Readers' Comments on H-1B Visa Surprise Visits
By Donald Sears | Posted: 2009-08-19
There is some buzz from readers on the recent blog article "H-1B Visa Companies Getting Unannounced Visits by Feds" and a healthy debate going on about problems with the laws around these visas. Reader 'Vincenzo' writes (edited): This search for fraud misses the REAL problems with the H-1B visa - 1)
Unemployment Is Up Again
By Donald Sears | Posted: 2009-08-14
Unemployment is up again for the week ending Aug. 1, says the latest report from the Department of Labor. The numbers aren't staggering, but they once again illuminate the fuzzy picture of the economy and the serious issue of people out of work and trying to find it.
From the
