Don E. Sears

Technology workers concerned about younger people taking their jobs should listen up: GenY may be a generation raised on the Internet, but their communication skills, work ethic and overall professionalism in the workplace need some serious attention. Recent college graduates are not living up to expectations of what it means to be professional on the […]

Hewlett-Packard employees in the United Kingdom are railing from recent layoffs that eliminated 1,300 employees. The latest workforce reduction announcement comes on top of 900 HP worker job cuts in the region. The union representing U.K.-based workers, Unite, had disparaging remarks for the recent spat of downsizing in the region. “Despite significant profits, HP appears […]

Apple, Google, Microsoft IT Job Applicants Tell All by Don E. Sears Company: AmazonInterview Difficulty Rating: 3.5 DifficultPositive Interview Experience: 52%Negative Interview Experience: 14%Notable Interview Questions: “If you are asked to design an elevator, what are things to consider?” — Amazon.com Project Manager”Given two strings, determine if the two words are anagrams. Explain the complexity […]

Workers across the planet admit to being overwhelmed by the voracious volume of work-related information they have to consume and digest via e-mail and other information collection systems. Information has to be taken in, but how it is processed, organized and made useful is up for serious debate, say corporate employees. What is the consequence? […]

Generational gaps in the workplace manifest themselves in daily practices. What one age group does for friendly interaction over a smartphone or Facebook, another may co-opt in the workplace for business use. The youngest age group at the office is the least likely to use text messaging and social networking for sharing business information, according […]

Technology research analyst Forrester has revised the global information technology market outlook forecast to 8.1 percent for the remainder of 2010 from a previous forecast of 9.9 percent. The trending is downward as the U.S. economy grows “at a snail’s pace,” yet it is characterized as “still robust” by Forrester analyst Andrew Bartels. The forecast […]

The leaves may be turning toward a winter rest, but technology work is not going dormant. Contract and project-based work is flourishing compared to last year. Silicon Valley technology jobs are at a two-year high on at least one job board. Technology job vacancies are up across the board in every region of the country, […]

A closer look at U.S. government data on technology jobs shows IT services–known as those jobs that fall under the category management and technology services to be the most robust area of technology employment over the last four months. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, which falls under the direction of the U.S. Department of Labor, […]

About a fifth of companies are planning to hire in the last quarter of the year, but worker sentiment is all over the map, and it’s not all that rosy. Just over 21 percent of companies are planning to hire either full-time or temporary workers in the fourth quarter-which is consistent with 2009 hiring expectations […]

Cloud, Cost Cutting, Continuity Top IT Management Concerns by Don E. Sears No. 10: Globalization As the investment world has followed international opportunities, the money has been flowing from the United States and into emerging markets and the labor forces of these markets. Information technology is not immune. Whether its internal expansion of employees abroad […]

Based on economic analysis from government officials, the recession ended in June 2009, but don’t tell that to folks with or without a full-time job right now. Worker and would-be worker sentiment is lousy. Workers have seen benefits reduced, continued layoffs, and pay and benefit cuts, and are not feeling all that positive about their […]

The private sector shed 39,000 jobs between August and September, according to a monthly employment report from payroll giant Automatic Data Processing, which tracks private-sector hiring with the aid of economists from Macroeconomic Advisers. The report receives data from 500,000 U.S. businesses and more than 2 million private-sector employees. The only industry sector of the […]