Don E. Sears

Should You Consult While Looking for an IT Job? by Don E. Sears Question No. 1: Flexibility Does it still give me time to be flexible in my job search? Question No. 2: New Marketable Skills Would I learn anything new that I can use to showcase my skills and experience? Question No. 3: Brand […]

What you earn in technology depends on where you live. The delta between what a technology worker with 10 or more years of experience earns on average in the Atlanta area and what a tech worker with the same experience in Silicon Valley makes is roughly $27,000, according to data released June 17 by Glassdoor.com, […]

6 Critical IT Hiring Trends to Watch in 2010 by Don E. Sears Do you anticipate hiring more professionals in the second half of 2010 than in the first half? Yes, substantially more hiring in the second half: 20% Yes, slightly more hiring in the second half: 51% No: 29% What trend do you see […]

The Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010, S.3480 as introduced by ranking Senate members of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is intended to create an Office of Cyber Policy in the executive branch of the government, confirmed by the Senate and ultimately reporting to the president. The bill was presented […]

Staffing companies that specialize in recruiting H-1B visa holders for technology positions are pushing back at Uncle Sam with a lawsuit. A senior official of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Donald Neufield, published a memo in January changing the rules for what constituted a true employee-to-employer relationship for the H-1B category, and staffing companies […]

Like the dips, curves and rapid fluctuations to U.S. stock prices, so go the figures on technology job gains and losses. There had been plenty of optimism in the air after government reports in April had shown gains of 8,800 technology jobs. Analysis of information technology jobs’ figures for May has one technology research firm […]

Amid expected job loss for contract and subcontract NASA workers in Florida, the Department of Labor announced it is providing a $15 million grant toward job assistance and transition services to 3,200 workers. The cause of the job loss is the impending retirement in November of the space shuttle program, which has been manning operational […]

Close to 80 percent of 800 companies polled in a new hiring survey are increasing jobs in the second half of 2010. Nearly half (49 percent) of employers and recruiters plan to increase their headcounts by 10 percent in the next six months, and 28 percent plan to hire between 11 percent and 20 percent […]

Hewlett-Packard plans to cut about 3 percent of its workforce, or about 9,000 jobs out of 304,000, as it restructures and consolidates its Enterprise Services business, invests more in cloud computing and automation, and updates its data centers, company representatives said in a conference call June 1 with analysts and stockholders. The company is taking […]

In response to ever-increasing worker suicides, Hon Hai Group, the owner of Foxconn, a technology and electronics manufacturing supplier to the giants of technology including Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Sony, Dell and others, announced plans to raise wages of its workers 20 percent, according to Reuters. There have been 11 suicide attempts in 2010 at one facility […]

A recent spate of deaths of workers employed by Foxconn-a major technology manufacturer and supplier to Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Sony and others-is drawing the ire of labor watch groups that find the living and working conditions of Chinese factory workers to be tantamount to slave labor. As eWEEK previously reported, eight workers have died at […]

In response to a recently published University of Maryland study, eWEEK interviewed Norman Matloff of the University of California, Davis, to get his perspective on the findings. The Maryland findings claim H-1B visa holders typically earn more in wages in the U.S. when you control for education level and several other factors. eWEEK interviewed the […]