Donald Sears

UPDATE: This post has been updated with comment from Alliance@IBM. IBM employees—whether they are part of today’s layoffs or not—are sounding off online. Since IBM hasn’t reported (and generally doesn’t) on the number of layoffs that are occurring today, the information that can be garnered comes from an IBM employee organization known as Alliance@IBM—which has […]

IBM, according to the Wall Street Journal, appears to be slashing global services jobs in the United States while giving some of that work to IBM global services staff in India. The number of layoffs in the global services unit is not known, and will be very hard to obtain. The WSJ couldn’t get IBM […]

Our friends over at CIO Insight are running a piece on the benefits of promoting, or rather marketing, IT to the business. It’s a smart idea, and the benefits make sense, but how real are they in practice? The benefits come from author Dan Roberts, who co-wrote Leading IT Transformation: The Roadmap for Success. These […]

I came across an interesting site called Path101.com that combines your personality traits, your resume and career advice to help you target a career path that could match you with your ideal employer, and vice versa. Eventually. Path 101 is a New York City-based startup in its alpha stage. The minds behind the site have […]

Friday is Karma Day. Give and you shall receive. TheLadders, a subscription-based careers site that is focused on jobs for people who make $100,000 or more, has an article on how going the extra mile for the people in your social media network is an excellent way to help yourself down the road. All of […]

One of the main benefits of social media–quickly distributed pervasiveness–could also hurt you and your online reputation, and maybe cost you a job. One innocent “tweet” intended to tell your friends that you received a job offer could also make you look completely foolish. Take a look at what “theconnor” posted on Twitter yesterday: “Cisco […]

Job site Careerbuilder released a study yesterday showing, not surprisingly, that workers over 60 years old are having to stay working for a lot longer than they wanted or expected given the economy and state of their retirement savings. This story has been done to death by the mainstream media, but it’s still interesting to […]

TechCrunch, you’ve outdone yourself. Have you seen the TechCrunch technology layoff tracker? Without gushing too much, this resource page is awesome for its interactive features and for showing the scope of the affected–from the smallest of startups to the giants of the industry. It’s complete with an interactive graphic that charts the chronology of layoffs, […]

Embedded video from CNN Video Today, I thought I’d take a little break from the normal IT salary and career reporting and share a green jobs video I happened upon. Talk about on-location reporting. Check out how nervous this scared-of-heights journalist is atop a wind turbine in California. This is part of CNN’s “Road to […]

A recent study which polled 1,600 students online appears to show that 8 in 10 college students see a growing need for understanding technology better, and they want skills for technology-related jobs. Citing the Obama administration’s efforts in digitizing medical records, widening the adoption and infrastructure for broadband and wireless technologies and getting more efficient […]

The good folks over at Robert Half Technology recently put out its quarterly IT Hiring Index and Skills Report report with an eye on the second quarter of 2009. With over 1400 CIOs polled in the survey, the report is a steadfast gauge of the kind of IT skills, trends, and challenges are happening in […]

On March 3, I wrote about a 2009 salary report for the Tri-state area (New York, New Jersey, Connecticut) published by placement company Bluewolf, which also has a side business of remote database administrator services. I noticed a couple of areas of salary growth in IT mentioned in the report and wondered why Bluewolf hadn’t […]