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Techies are often advised to brush up on their broader business skills, such as project management. Yet in at least some fields, too many folks following this advice may have contributed to shortages of people with the right kinds of skills.
According to an MLive.com story, U.S. automakers and their suppliers are having trouble finding enough […]

Earlier this month I wrote about a couple of recent job surveys that seemed to contain discrepancies about the number of IT jobs gained — or lost — over the past year.
Numbers from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, which indicated the information industry lost 13,000 jobs in July and 44,000 jobs […]

Earlier this year, I wrote about Chinese companies’ efforts to woo foreign executives, to help make up for a lack of local executives with management experience. I also wrote about HP’s cultural exchange program for executives, in which the company sends execs and their families to Beijing for three weeks to help them gain a […]

Last August, I wrote about the dread harbored by the IT industry over a possible Big Problem related to Big Iron.
Lots of aging programmers versed in the legacy languages of mainframes, such as COBOL, are expected to retire soon. Younger programmers have shunned these languages in favor of newer ones like Java and .NET. And, […]

Sometimes it’s easy to get to the truth. Just ask the “researchers” who only had to wait for some ice to melt to determine that Bigfoot isn’t real after all.
Sometimes it’s not easy at all. Despite lots of anecdotal claims about the loss of American jobs due to offshoring, it’s hard to find conclusive data. […]