Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
After a long bout of recession blows and outsourcing knockouts, IT pros are longing for a true recovery complete with better jobs, more reasonable workloads, raises, bonuses and employment sweeteners. The good news is that 2011 looks to be the year of the IT comeback and all the goodies that implies. The bad news is…
While the high unemployment rate might suggest it’s easy to find skilled applicants today, that’s not always the case with technology professionals. In fact, according to the Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Index and Skills Report for the first quarter of 2011, 54 percent of CIOs said it is very or somewhat challenging to find…
When you think of network security, thoughts of operating systems, firewalls, and intrusion detection are likely to spring to mind. As we navigate through one of the most challenging economies in history, however, securing your professional network is just as important. Few IT professionals actually enjoy the process of professional networking outside of their core…
4. Manage it, and work it – An article on professional networking would be lacking without discussing LinkedIn (http://www.Linkedin.com), the largest, most intuitive business-networking site in the world. It is by far the most robust tool in an IT professional’s network management arsenal. Let’s say that you meet someone through Wyrkplace, BNI, or Jigsaw, or…
For some, the role of CIO is the career peak; for others it’s just an outcropping on the side of the mountain. Career advancement for the one is a matter of holding and defending the position. For the other, it’s about anchoring a cam in the next crack of opportunity and muscling past icy obstacles….
There’s no end in sight for the jobless recovery in business functions such as corporate finance and IT, in large part due to the accelerated movement of work to India and other offshore locations, according to new research from The Hackett Group. The dramatic job losses seen by U.S. and European companies in 2008 and…
According to the salary guides just released from Robert Half, 11 roles representing several fields — including accounting and finance, technology, creative, legal and administrative services — show increases in starting salaries and growing demand among employers. “The common thread among the jobs highlighted in our research is that they help businesses improve efficiency and…
The good news: IT salary levels are once again headed upward. The 2011 IT Salary Guide indicates some respectable boosts in average salary. Lead applications developers get a 4.7% increase and software engineers enjoy a 4.1% boost in paycheck. Okay, so IT managers move up a ho-hum 2.5% and project managers rise 2.8%, but Web…
The role of CIO has morphed faster than Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde — with about the same amount of agony. Not so long ago CIOs were respected misunderstood master geeks who were often software developers and programmers themselves. More recently, they’ve been shackled to securing and supporting a hodge-podge of bring-your-own-tech and often derided…
It being the day after Halloween there’s probably a couple people out today with sick kids that ate too much candy last night. Or, it could be they ate too much candy on purpose just so they could feel lousy and call off sick today. CareerBuilder’s annual survey on absenteeism, the List of the Most…