Deb Perelman

Most job hunts begin the same way: An antsy, underwhelmed or laid-off worker enters the URL of a company’s career site or popular job board into a browser address bar and is magically whisked through the Web to a page that couldn’t be happier to see him or her. Monster.com plays to everything everyone hates […]

Bad job market omens are everywhere: Advanced Micro Devices announced April 7 that it was slashing 10 percent of its work force, Dell is in the process of laying off at least 8,500 employees and the Bureau of Labor Statistics recently reported that the unemployment rate rose from 4.8 to 5.1 percent in March. On […]

While women hold 51 percent of professional jobs in the United States, they make up only 26 percent of the IT work force, according to the National Center for Women & Information Technology. Furthermore, fewer women worked in IT in 2008 than in 2000. But the loss of women in the technology field begins long […]

IT professionals with a strong battery of SAP skills have seen their salaries soar in the last two years. ERP-related roles also accounted for one of the best-paying IT jobs in the first quarter of 2008, according to the Yoh Index of Technology Wages. Furthermore, salaries within SAP specializations increased 15.2 percent in 2006, according […]

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced April 8 that it had received enough H-1B visa applications to meet the congressionally-mandated cap for the 2009 fiscal year. The agency will only complete the initial data entry for filings received between April 1 and April 7. The USCIS also announced that it had exceeded cap for […]

Just a few days into the H-1B visa filing season for the 2009 fiscal year, the Department of Homeland Security announced April 4 that it would be making it a little easier for foreign graduates of U.S. universities awaiting visas. F-1 non-immigrant student visa holders with degrees in STEM fields (science, technology, engineer and mathematics) […]

Just how important are wireless skills to IT departments? A survey of more than 3,500 IT managers released today by CompTIA, a trade association, identified wireless skills as those that will be the most important for businesses to have in-house in the next five years. “Between telecommuting, workers on the road, working remotely and all […]

At a time when the high-tech industry is nervous about an anticipated downturn in consumer spending, new employment numbers stand to ease some tension. The U.S. high-tech industry added jobs for a third year in a row, according to a report released April 2 by the AeA, a high-tech trade association. In 2007, 91,400 jobs […]

When someone gets fired in the movies, it’s always a melodramatic event. Typically, an employee walks into a regularly scheduled Monday morning pow-wow with their manager and find him or her joined by the HR manager, an attorney and a head honcho, informing them that their services are no longer needed. Security guides them to […]

The Middle East, most often associated with the oil industry, war zones and religious fervor in the American mind, is getting now gaining a reputation among IT professional as a place where salaries are soaring. Due to mounting demand for IT security, a new survey finds that salaries for expat skilled IT security professionals are […]

In one of the biggest outsourcing deals in the last five years, Royal Dutch Shell announced March 31 that it will be farming out its technology and telecommunications infrastructure through three deals valued together at more than $4 billion. AT&T, T-Systems and EDS were the winners of the five-year contracts, with a $1.6 billion networking […]

On April 1, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ office will be hit with an avalanche of H-1B visa applications for the 2009 fiscal year. If the showing is anything like last year-and observers expect there to be more, not less, of a rush-the number of applications received will reach so far beyond the 65,000 […]