Deb Perelman

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 thing. “A bad job lies […]

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 the island of TMP Worldwide, a recruitment advertising agency, these six employers created recruitment avatars, or digital representatives of themselves, and conducted live, real-time […]

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 world,” it may have gotten more than it bargained for. In short, wrote Jenna Adorno, technical recruiter for MSN, on Microsoft’s JobsBlog on […]

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 of employees reported that their […]

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 systems running on mainframe computers. […]

If you want to know how Silicon Valley manages to remain, after 16 years, the center of U.S. IT innovation and production, Roger Kay will take you first to Morocco. “Many years ago, when I was traveling, I went to the central market in Marrakech looking for a drum,” Kay, president of analyst company Endpoint […]

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 discretionary effect, or in laymen’s terms, the likelihood that an employee will go the extra mile to get a job done. A satisfied worker probably […]

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 a sure-thing promotion. Because such […]

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 spam or irrelevant snippets? […]

Recent and near-college graduates who are trying to crack the secret code to finding their dream job after graduation have countless approaches: papering the town with their resumes and cover letters, scouring the classifieds for hours each day, calling everyone they know to see who can get them in the door at their companies and, […]

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 that for a good […]

What do mainframes and networks have in common? Centralized control, and these command-and-control structures have long assured IT professionals that the technology game is played on their terms. Yet, in the age of the consumerization of technology, the effectiveness of centralized IT control has slipped. In fact, a report released by the Yankee Group Aug. […]