Donald Sears

Network infrastructure giant Cisco Systems plans to cut 600 to 700 workers from its San Jose campus, according to a source cited by the San Jose Mercury News. The cuts are “part of 2,000 positions CEO John Chambers had forecast in February would be eliminated from Cisco’s global work force of about 66,560,” said the […]

Dice has announced its latest Website targeted at the certification and training needs of technology workers. Dice obviously sees training and certifications as a large opportunity in the current economy and recession. It’s a pretty smart idea to extend its brand in this way. You may be on its job search site, so why not […]

Don’t want to work for the government? Well, it may just be the best place to find IT work lately, or so says a Washington Post article, “As Technology Needs Grow, One Sector Has No Shortage of Jobs.” According to the article, spending on IT services is expected to grow 3.5 percent over the next […]

The hits just keep on coming, techies. Nearly 120,000 job cuts have happened in technology in the first half of 2009, according to a newly released study by outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Here’s the picture from the C, G, & E statement: “Despite the second-quarter decline, tech-sector job cuts for the first half […]

With all the graduates in science and engineering, plus all the folks currently looking for work, it’s a challenging time. There is the constant chatter from the big boys of tech for the need for more technicians and people with technical aptitudes. But look at these numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on electrical […]

One Stanford academic is saying there is a major flaw in how project time is calculated, particularly in software development. All it takes, says Professor Sam Savage of Stanford University, is for one inflexible average number to be added in a spreadsheet to throw off the whole project. Tony Kontzer at CIO Insight writes in […]

A recent study from job site CareerBuilder.com shows a large number of people are seeking out jobs in federal, state and city governments–to the tune of 88 percent of 2,900 people polled. From the CareerBuilder.com press release: “Forty-one percent reported that they are interested in jobs within the Federal government, while 47 percent said they […]

We’ve all heard about crazy things companies try to make potential job candidates do to get jobs. You don’t have to look any further than television’s The Apprentice series for an extreme example. In the UK, a mobile marketing company, Teimlo, is only accepting job applicants via text message using 160 characters or less—which is […]

Office Space this is not. Some companies may not enforce confidentiality agreements, but not finanicial giant Goldman Sachs. Some employees give employers good reason to monitor and copy whatever is done on their computers, especially where propietary software is being used to make the company truckloads of money. Take the case of Sergey Aleynikov, a […]

How you answer questions posed to you in job interviews could mean the difference between getting the job and not getting a call back at all. The nature of interview questions can be there to see how you deal with adversity, how you play with others and how well you can communicate about yourself–and potentially […]

June’s monthly jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics came out today, along with the weekly Department of Labor unemployment numbers. The verdict: The unemployment rate is now 9.5 percent and another 467,000 are off of payrolls for the month. That puts the total number of people on unemployment at 14.7 million. All of […]

Management consulting company Janco Associates has recently released its 2009 Mid Year IT Salary Survey. The results are what you’d expect: Wages, in salary and bonus, are down, employees are swallowing more of the health care costs, and people aren’t retiring as much. But what you may not realize is that high-performing middle managers and […]