Don E. Sears

IT jobs were up in July by a big number, but are down again in August. What’s at play?There is a constant churn between hiring in specific segments and the economic realities that are forcing some firms to lay off workers-even in IT. In a recent Foote Partners release known as the “August ’09 U.S. […]

Cost cutting is the name of the game. But at what price for the country? That appears to be the central argument of public policy professor Ron Hira from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Hira is an outspoken opponent to major offshoring trends in higher-paying technology and financial jobs. His argument? It’s not only about […]

If you live in the Northeast and South Atlantic regions, you are likely to see the most opportunities for technology job growth in the next few months, says the Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Index. Jobs in most demand include network administration, desktop support, Windows administration, application development and help desk positions. From the report’s […]

Where are IT jobs going to be over the next two years? There are a number of expectations, including a whole lot more in Web application development, including social media, enterprise software and a host of mobile applications for Internet-enabled devices such as the iPhone and competitors. Another area expected to have growth is in […]

A leading technology analyst firm says that many social sciences roles will be needed to work with corporations in helping to better understand the Web behavior of customers, online communities, personal brands and the spectrum of social networking communication. In a recent report “Social Science Meets Technology in Next-Generation Jobs,” Gartner Vice President Kathy Harris […]

Talk about IT management gone awry. The Department of Veteran Affairs’ technology department is on the hot seat.Between 2007 and 2008, pay grades were ignored, nepotism was rampant and excessive bonuses were given to the tune of $24 million, while the department struggled with budget deficits, found the Office of the Inspector General in an […]

In “Kramer Vs. Kramer,” the Oscar-winning Best Movie in the late 1970s that highlighted divorce in America, we watch Dustin Hoffman’s character desperately search for a job over coffee while going through the paper in a diner and circling jobs he’s interested in with a pen. Hoffman’s Kramer was let go from his most recent […]

In an attempt to help root out fraud and other criminal activity, the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services agency is making surprise visits to companies with H-1B visa holders on the books.After reports came out that there has been evidence shown of fraudulent use of temporary workers, bad documentation abusing the system and many visa […]

In this economy, IT departments are being asked to do more technology management with less manpower while still keeping things running smoothly 24/7/365. When a database process gets caught up, flutters and freezes, many businesses stand to lose customers’ loyalty and their greenbacks. The last thing your CIO wants is a call from the CEO […]

The majority of enterprise customers have database administrators in-house and can’t really run IT without some form of them internally. So conceded U.S.-based remote database providers Database Specialists, dbaDirect and Bluewolf, which eWEEK recently talked with to get a better sense of what data management outsourcing for the enterprise is like, and the challenges of […]