Deborah Rothberg

Lose the Attitude Years after the tech-bubble years of scarce IT professionals, the “stupid users” attitude among tech professionals still exists. But in todays business environment, the sneering and condescending approach is increasingly intolerable. Where it has not happened already, it soon may be met with a slew of ill effects, from outsourcing to bad […]

In a survey of IT security professionals attending the RSA Conference, one-third of respondents cited uncovering identity management as their biggest organizational concern. While 29 percent of respondents ranked e-mail viruses as their most significant threat, 68 percent listed Web viruses, suggesting that Web viruses pose more of a threat than e-mail-born ones. Paul Davis, […]

Youve just arrived at work on a Monday morning after a long weekend and you havent had your coffee yet. You land your laptop on its dock and take your seat, waiting for the familiar image of your desktop wallpaper to greet you. And you wait. But it doesnt appear. What is this? you grumble […]

IT hiring was level in September, the first month without growth in more than a year, according a report released by the National Association of Computer Consultant Businesses, an Alexandria, Va.-based trade association that represents IT staffing and solutions firms, on Oct. 11. “With employment of IT professionals within some key non-IT sectors slowing, overall […]

Hourly wages for skilled tech workers in the third quarter of 2006 improved over the year before, according to the Yoh Index of Technology wages released Oct. 11 by the Philadelphia-based talent management company. Wages increased .1 percent in July, 1.4 percent in August and finally 2.4 percent in September. The Index ended the third […]

The career path of IT managers often sputters and stalls in small enterprises, according to research released Oct. 10 by the Info-Tech Research Groups Indaba division, a London, Ontario-based provider of IT research and advice. IT managers who focus their occupation on companies with 200 or more employees are more likely to find a career […]

Amid widespread reports of slowed job growth and the looming possibility of an unemployment rate about to swell, IT worker confidence rebounded in September, according to the New York-based Hudson Employment Indexs report, released Oct. 4. Worker confidence among IT professionals nearly recovered in September, according to the release, as Hudsons IT index increased 6.2 […]

In the years before the tech bubble burst, IT was king: there was a huge demand for professionals with technical prowess and an overwhelming shortage of able bodies. Techies could pick their job and name their salary. They could wear jeans and t-shirts to meetings and nobody would raise an eyebrow. They could roll their […]

Due to auto supplier and telecom cutbacks, U.S. job cuts surged in September, with the economy losing more than 100,000 jobs for the first time since January, according to a monthly job cut report by Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a New York-based global outplacement consultancy. Job cuts jumped 54 percent in September, according to the […]

Young people entering the U.S. workforce lack critical skills essential for success, finds a survey released Oct. 2 by a consortium of business research organizations. The consortium, made up of The Conference Board, Corporate Voices for Working Families, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills and the Society for Human Resource Management, released a report filled […]

Four Feckless Business Approaches to IT Its rare to find geeks or suits out there who cant list examples of their earnest work being thwarted by “those other guys.” Yet most people will tell you there is more to the picture than incompatibility, some noting problems as simple as a language gap. “Sure, youre both […]

At pay rates of up to 30 percent more than most IT professionals, the prospect of becoming an IT contractor makes many tech workers see dollar signs. Its more than money, however, drawing them in: Its variety. Some find the influx of new and different projects to be more satisfying than the static labor in […]