Is Your IT Job Safe in 2009?

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…

Dire Staffing and Salary Predictions for 2009

Janco Associates has just released its January 2009 IT Salary Survey and the prospects look grim for IT professionals. A perfect storm driven by the recent worldwide economic downturn, company closures, layoffs, cost cutting, outsourcing, and retirees who have had to return to the job market because of the lost value of their investment portfolios…

IT Spending Up in 2010

According to a Computer Economics assessment of IT spending patterns during the previous two recessions, IT spending growth will remain flat through 2009 but will begin to recover in 2010. The IT research and advisory firm said that its analysis of IT spending trends shows that businesses began restraining spending in late 2007, in anticipation…

2009 IT Spending Roundup

You’d have to live under a rock to not know that economies around the globe are either in, or heading for recession. In the past, when IT was viewed as just a cost-center, this meant sharp cuts in IT spending. This time around things don’t look too bad. Gartner, IDC, Forrester and Computer Economics have…