Corinne Bernstein

Unknown factors surrounding the shutdown of the federal government starting Oct. 1 have cast a cloud of uncertainty around IT employment—which has largely been a pocket of strength in the overall U.S. jobs market. Employment experts and analysts say the long-term effects of a shutdown and other political jockeying for position, including economic implications related […]

Big Data Job Opportunities Spread Across U.S., Industries: Dice by Corinne Bernstein Big Data, Big Job Prospects Overall, big data jobs are up 143 percent year-over-year on Dice’s site. Serious Opportunities in Hadoop Hadoop is the most popular skill in the big data category on Dice, and is up 85 percent year-over-year on the site. […]

Although the IT jobs market continues to outperform U.S. employment by far, IT career experts choose their adjectives carefully when discussing the tech hiring picture. The number of new jobs in IT has grown steadily for several quarters now—with shortages of skilled workers in some fields—yet the language of guarded optimism has been prevalent. “Good […]

Although money may be the root of many world problems, gender equality in high-tech employment is less a matter of salary than a question of why fewer women are in IT management positions—and in IT overall. The issue is particularly poignant in light of what business leaders and employment experts point to as a very […]

On the train the other day, I overheard one rider asking another if it was OK to fib a little—or at least embellish the truth—on a resume. As the train rattled quickly and loudly to my stop, I missed the response, but I couldn’t stop thinking about the question. Lying on a resume isn’t illegal, […]

NEW YORK—While business leaders are worrying about how one cliff will constrain U.S. economic growth, there’s another critical ledge that should concern them: an “IT skills cliff.” The term—which Bob Miano, president and CEO of executive search and recruitment firm Harvey Nash plc, used at an event his firm held Feb. 27 here—refers to shortages […]

Riverbed has enhanced its Whitewater cloud storage lineup with an eye toward helping enterprises cost effectively meet crucial backup needs, modernize their data management strategies and tackle mounting challenges from data expansion. At a New York City event Feb. 21, Riverbed unveiled its Whitewater Operating System 2.1 with support for Amazon Glacier and Google Cloud […]

Optimism is in the eyes of the beholder. Most IT employment experts see good news on the jobs front, but their take on the outlook varies. Consider analyses from research and advisory firm Foote Partners and online career and employment site Dice.com—both sanguine about IT employment but for different reasons. To David Foote, chief analyst […]

About eight years after I graduated from college and had worked for a while, I interviewed for an editing job at a publishing startup. It was many years ago, but one of the interviewer’s questions sticks in my mind: “What were some of your extra-curricular activities in high school?” High school? When I asked the […]

Don’t Have a Cow The question from Google to a local quality evaluator candidate was, “How many cows are in Canada?” You can’t type this question into Google or any other search engine during an interview, but it does make you think and could lead to lively discussion. Sing, Sing a Song The question from […]

When it comes to job prospects, big data may be bigger than many think. For the first time, jobs related to big data ranked high among the top IT skills on hiring executives’ wish lists for 2013, a new study from career site Dice.com shows. Big data jobs such as data analysis/analytics, which did not […]

A Divided Vote Nearly half (48 percent) of IT leaders surveyed said they anticipate growth in their organizations’ 2013 IT budgets. The other 52 percent expect it either to remain the same (27 percent), decline (16 percent) or responded that they didn’t know (9 percent). Top Challenge: Acquiring Needed Budgets More than half (54 percent) […]