545,000 Open IT Jobs, and Other Nonsense
The White House is apparently late in getting the memo that the supposed STEM shortage is a myth. At Computerworld, Patrick Thibodeau reports that President Barack Obama’s administration proclaimed...
View ArticleTechnology and Gender in Context
Technology companies don’t hire enough women (or minorities). Or at least that’s the operating assumption of many media reports, company boilerplate and political sloganeering. The unanswered question,...
View ArticleYou Know You Have a Diversity Problem When…
...You can replace a few words in an argument and get an embarrassing result. A number of technology news outlets have once again had a collective fit over the state of diversity at technology...
View ArticleThe Problem With IT Resumes
What’s the problem with IT resumes? They’re useless—at least in the opinion of many people on both sides of the hiring desk. Part of the problem is the level of competition: everyone and their cousin...
View ArticleThe Color That Twitter Apparently Forgot
Continuing on the tech-giant bandwagon of diversity, Twitter has delivered its most recent confession and proposed penance by publicly issuing its hiring goals. According to Rachel King and Terry...
View ArticleDo IT Certifications Have Value?
One of the challenges for employers seeking to fill vacancies is assessment of candidates. College degrees are increasingly useless owing to their ubiquity (which is why so many low-level jobs now...
View ArticleThe Millennial Mainframer: An Oxymoron?
For the first time in a long time, a majority of the workforce is in their 20s—the rise of the millennial generation. It’s certainly no surprise if you look in the bullpens of a typical social media...
View ArticleFewer Than Half of IT Orgs Adding Headcount This Year
The rate of IT spending growth is slowing this year, and the culprit appears to be weakness in IT hiring plans. Fewer than half (46%) of all companies in the newly released Computer Economics IT...
View ArticleTEKsystems Survey Pinpoints Best IT Jobs for College Graduates
With the approach of university and college graduations nationwide, TEKsystems, a leading provider of IT staffing solutions and IT services, released the results of a survey revealing the top IT jobs...
View ArticleProductivity Gains Keeping IT Staff Levels in Check
IT operational budgets are growing modestly in 2018, but that growth is not being mirrored in IT staffing levels, which are essentially flat at the median. According to Computer Economics, fewer than...
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