Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
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…
Currently, there are over 21,000 jobs on IT Job Board, this represents a 16% increase quarter over quarter. In Q1 of this year, IT manager and IT support roles represented the highest proportion of jobs on site. The main skills in demand continue to be IT managers, IT support, project managers, SQL and software engineers….
With competition for open positions fierce, the pressure is on for job seekers to have flawless interview skills. Sometimes that pressure can cause candidates to make unusual, and sometimes unfavorable, interview mistakes. A new CareerBuilder survey of more than 2,700 hiring managers reveals the outrageous and common mistakes that some candidates have made in job…
While the pace of announced workforce reductions is about 40% ahead of last year, a surprising new report shows that, through September, employers have already announced plans to hire more workers than they did in all of 2008. The report released Monday by global outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas indicates that some employers feel…
According to a new survey by CareerBuilder completed in June, 48% of workers who were laid off from full-time jobs in the last three months have found new full-time positions. This is up from 41% from March. An additional three percent found part-time positions―down from 8% in the previous survey. The CareerBuilder survey was conducted…
If you’re in a hard-hit sector like retail or financial, start updating that resume. Even if you’re in a relatively safe sector, such as energy, the changing nature of IT may very well mean that, at the very least, you’ll need to modernize your skill set. The only workers who shouldn’t lose sleep are those…