Donald Sears

Readers of the recent eWEEK article “How Offshoring May Be Hurting U.S. Technology Workers” has garnered many comments expressing a wide of range of emotional and economic anger, frustration and confusion. Here’s a look at some of the comments. From contributor “Mike” with the subject “Per Capita Productivity”: “The ugly truth no American wants to […]

I mentioned the decline of jobs in Silicon Valley in passing in an article on IT jobs for the fourth quarter yesterday, but it’s really worthy of its own post. The loss of 85,000 jobs over a seven-year period is not something to gloss over. That’s right. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has taken a […]

While it’s not clear that social media is going to take over as the best public relations tool of the century, the uses of Facebook, Twitter and other social networks for marketing and promotions are certainly changing how consumers and workers use and react to products and services. A recent blog post on ZDNet looks […]

Legal fees. No one wants to pay them, and no one wants to lose innovation while being mired in a legal battle over an employee. That seems to be at the heart of a deal that Steve Jobs tried to strike with smartphone competitor Palm. As first reported by Bloomberg News, Palm CEO Ed Colligan […]

Facebook is expanding its employee base, but not by as much as you might have read, says a NY Times blog. Facebook has hired more than 200 new employees in 2009. That makes about 1,200 employees in total, but it plans on growing that this year. But in a recent interview with Facebook CEO Mark […]

Money talks, as the saying goes. It also makes the world go around, and it’s also something we all need and want. Cliched songs aside, when I came across this list of the highest-paying technology companies from Om Malik, who got it from a customer satisfaction company called Glassdoor.com that’s based in Sausalito, Calif., I […]

Some recruiters are saying they see a decline in big chunks of layoff numbers in the Boston area, says a recent post from Dice.com. However, that same post doesn’t paint the rosiest picture if you were one of the unfortunate folks let go from the companies listed. The recent layoffs appear to be a combination […]

There is some buzz from readers on the recent blog article “H-1B Visa Companies Getting Unannounced Visits by Feds” and a healthy debate going on about problems with the laws around these visas. Reader ‘Vincenzo’ writes (edited): “This search for fraud misses the REAL problems with the H-1B visa – 1) the “prevailing wage” nonsense […]

Unemployment is up again for the week ending Aug. 1, says the latest report from the Department of Labor. The numbers aren’t staggering, but they once again illuminate the fuzzy picture of the economy and the serious issue of people out of work and trying to find it. From the DoL report: “In the week […]

There’s no shortage of news about social media and social networking sites like LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook. But when it comes to job searching, LinkedIn is really the site that is being used the most these days by recruiters and hiring managers. You no longer need to sit at home waiting for the phone to […]

Layoffs may be down for July, but salaries in technology aren’t growing. In fact, salaries for new employees are falling, says a recent survey by job board Dice. From the Dice news release: “Fifty-seven percent of recruiters and hiring managers said salaries for new employees are falling this year, while 35 percent expected them to […]

Some recent graduates who can’t find work here stateside are looking to China for employment, so says a recent article from the New York Times. The article profiles some graduates who went to China several years ago, but also a yet-to-be junior at MIT, Mick Zomnir, who is working in China over the summer as […]