Deborah Rothberg

Transcender, an Atlanta-based provider of exam preparation software and part of Kaplan IT Learning announced Jan. 8 the release of practice exam materials for Vista certification, which helps IT professionals configure, support and troubleshoot Microsofts new operating system. This is the first exam that Microsoft has come out with in the Vista series, and there […]

Planned job cuts totaled 839,822 jobs in 2006, 232,000 less than in 2005, according to a report released Jan. 4 by the New York-based Challenger, Gray and Christmas, a global outplacement consultancy. Overall, 2006 job cuts were 22 percent lower than in 2005, and for the first time since the year 2000, annual job cut […]

Despite a slowdown in the economy, the job market showed strength in December, with nonfarm employment increasing by 167,000 in December and the unemployment rate remaining unchanged at 4.5 percent, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report released January 5. The increase of 167,000, which brought the work force to 136.2 million, followed increases […]

Promoting U.S. tech innovation, keeping the work force globally competitive and advancing broadband Internet are three of the seven priorities CompTIA, a Washington-based group representing the business interests of the IT industry, encourages Congress and U.S. policymakers to focus on in 2007. CompTIA (Computing Technology Industry Association) said in order to keep Americas workers and […]

IT recruitment took a hit in December, as demand for computer and mathematical occupations plunged 15 points in an employment index released monthly by Monster Worldwide, the New York-based online recruitment site. The 15-point drop was attributed in part to a reduced online job availability of IT, software development and computer services positions, the first […]

Driving up salaries for workers with the right mix of specialized skills, technology-based industries are expect to continue to face shortages of talent this year, according to market analysis released Jan. 3 by Philadelphia-based Yoh, a provider of outsourcing services. Yoh predicts that the tightest candidate markets will be found among workers with specialized technical […]

IT worker confidence slid in December, with a growing number of tech professionals anticipating layoffs, according to a report released Jan. 3 by Hudson, a staffing firm based in New York. Decrease in job satisfaction and a substantial rise in expected layoffs prompted a six point decrease in Hudsons IT professional index from the month […]

Finding, developing and keeping talent are among the top concerns for HR executives for 2007, according to a survey released by ORC Worldwide, a New York-based provider of human resource management consulting and data services. Nearly 62 percent of respondents said that the most pressing strategic issues they will face in 2007 would fall into […]

2007 will bring greater expectations of responsibility and self-financing of benefits for U.S. workers, according to a report issued Dec. 28 by Watson Wyatt Worldwide, a Washington-based global consulting firm. Among the health care benefit trends predicted in the report is an increased focus on HDHPs (high-deductible health care plans) coupled with reimbursement arrangements such […]

Nearly 40 percent of job seekers feel that their age, and not the economy, has kept them from finding a new job, according to the results of a phone poll released Dec. 28 by Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a global outplacement consultancy in New York. An additional 6 percent of respondents said other forms of […]

Nearly one in 10 employers will hire more than of 500 new employees in 2007, according to a survey released by Chicago-based CareerBuilder.com on Dec. 26. While more than one-third (36 percent) of employers expect to add 10 employees or fewer in 2007, 29 percent intend to hire more than 50, and 20 percent plan […]

There will be more job growth in the manufacturing and service sectors in January 2007 than in January 2006, according to the findings of a collaborative report from the Alexandria, Va.-based Society for Human Resource Management and the Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations, released Dec. 26. Firms continue to face considerable difficulty […]