Donald Sears

As 2010 comes to a close, industry advocates TechAmerica took a closer look at regional jobs numbers from last year based on data released by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. Yes, you read that correct: 2009. This is most available data on regional technology job numbers from Uncle Sam. New York […]

Tying deliverables on a project back to the business case can be extremely challenging proposition. Supposedly, in requirements gathering and the project scope the business case would be built in, but too many times, as Patrick Gray writes at Tech Republic, tasks and deliverables become an inflexible piece of project focus that are rarely tied […]

After a few years of the “do more with less” syndrome in IT departments (and almost every department), many tech workers are acutely aware of their value in an organization and hope to be compensated for the efforts. Tech professionals can breathe a little easier as just under half (45 percent) of management is open […]

There are technology jobs in the Federal government, especially in areas dealing with security. In general, working for Uncle Sam on computer systems means having to obtain security clearances and have detailed background checks. Criminals need not apply. Beyond a criminal record, however, expect your financial and psychological background to be opened up for a […]

As the saying goes, finding a job can be full time work, but it’s not an explanation for what you have been doing with your time, contends an article from TheLadders focused on helping job seekers answer why an individual has been out of work for a long period. From a hiring perspective, time is […]

The state where companies become incorporated–Delaware– has a business-friendly governor in Jack Markell. Catering to the business community while governing can be a challenging experience when unemployment is high, corporate profits are strong and the government is seemingly unable to get beyond petty party politics. A recent trip to China spurred Markell to write a […]

Jobs from staffing firms across all industries is up in 2010 and the numbers aren’t easy to ignore. In the third quarter of this year alone staffing firms have employed an average of 2.6 million jobs per day which is a 24.9 percent increase from the same time in 2009, according to data released by […]

Companies killing product lines or changing courses midstream that lay off employees may have something to think about–especially in the state of Minnesota. Check out the case of Chandramouli Vaidyanathan vs. Seagate. Hard drive and storage company Seagate got smacked in a wrongful hiring suit ruling this month. Wrongful hiring? Yeh, it’s evidently a real […]

Ever have an interview or series of interviews and never hear back from human resources or hiring managers when you do not get the job? You are not alone. Over half–52 percent– of respondents on an October Dice survey said they’d love to receive feedback from companies they have interviewed with for positive and negative […]

A Forrester study from 2009 found 1 in 3 software development teams are using some form of agile development models including Extreme Programming, Crystal Clear, Lean and Scrum. Scrum is the most popular, but it’s not as if every development team is doing it exactly the same way. Scrum focuses on rapid deployment of software […]