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The 10 Fast Growing IT Job Markets in the U.S. The ongoing shortage of Big Data talent is a serious problem for companies whose business increasingly relies on data analytics to remain competitive. You can imagine how difficult it must be for IT staffing firms whose clients are clamoring for Big Data skills when this […]

The 10 Fast Growing IT Job Markets in the U.S. The competition for great tech talent may be intense, but should your company really have to pay a search firm 20 percent or 30 percent of a techie’s base salary just for the privilege of hiring him? “Some people think that’s absolutely ridiculous,” one recruiter […]

The Seven Most Common Negotiating Mistakes If you’re a tech professional who already has a good job, but who wants to keep the door open to other opportunities that might crop up, you’re probably thinking that the last thing you want to do is post a resume on a public job site where everyone, including […]

Five Steps to Protect Your Passwords Before It’s Too Late If you’re familiar at all with the popular password manager RoboForm, you may know that when the current version of the product, version 7, was released back in 2010, all heck broke loose. Users who loved version 6 for a lot of reasons (including the […]

Network Visibility Can Help Avoid the IT Blame Game It appears that the corporate world isn’t the only place where IT and end users aren’t doing a particularly stellar job of collaborating to create optimal IT services for their organizations. According to a recent survey of IT executives who work in the higher education sector, […]

Eight Habits of Effective Critical Thinkers Last week, I wrote about a new study that showed that companies with a higher percentage of women in leadership roles perform better. Interestingly enough, the same study also found that the more millennials a company has in leadership positions, the better it performs, as well. I recently discussed […]

Six Key Steps to Build a Successful Digital Business When my wife changed her name after our wedding 40 years ago, it wasn’t, as I recall, all that much of a hassle. Of course, the world has gotten a lot more complicated since then, and so, it seems, has the process of changing one’s name […]

The Seven Most Common Negotiating Mistakes The good news is that a new study has found that companies with a higher percentage of women in leadership roles perform better. The bad news is the study also found that compared to other industries, the technology and telecommunications sector has a lower percentage of women in leadership […]

Ten Benefits of IT Certification for You (and Your Employer) According to a Brookings Institution report from last year, half of all STEM jobs paying an average of $53,000 a year don’t require a college degree. So does it make sense to go pro with nothing more than a high school diploma? The answer appears […]

Eight Signs Your Team Is in Trouble According to a global survey of marketing professionals by Teradata, 74 percent of the respondents said that marketing and IT are not strategic partners in their companies. That’s bad news for IT in any case, but IT pros might take some consolation in the finding that at least […]

The Best Social Media Management Software In a post last month titled, “How Immigrant Women Are Blazing a Trail in Technology Careers in the U.S.,” I wrote about Kira Makagon, a female tech entrepreneur from Ukraine, who’s now executive vice president of innovation at  RingCentral, a provider of cloud-based communications services in San Mateo, Calif. […]

The Seven Most Common Negotiating Mistakes Communication in the workplace is challenging enough under the best of circumstances, but in workplaces that can have as many as four generations struggling to communicate with each other, even simple exchanges can result not only in miscommunications, but in misunderstandings that can create serious problems. One person who […]