Kachina Shaw

When Jobvite released results from its sixth annual Social Recruiting Survey, the main underlying question had switched from whether recruiters were using social networking to connect with candidates and hires, to how recruiters were doing so, according to Jobvite President and CEO Dan Finnigan. And while competition is fierce among many job seekers, don’t forget […]

Higher education in general will certainly look very different within our lifetimes. Global and domestic economic pressures, workforce shifts, and new thinking about the value of education and the burden of debt add up to a system that can’t rely on tradition to keep it strong anymore. And in the most traditional of educational programs, […]

If Millennials feel misunderstood by their older colleagues, it’s not because nobody is trying. Yet another study of the workplace communication issues Millennials have with their managers has arrived, this one from a firm focused solely on this cohort, Millennial Branding. Expanded insights will be included in Millennial Branding founder Dan Schawbel’s new book, “Promote […]

The IPv6 drumbeat hasn’t quite reached the level of urgency required to keep the U.S. from falling behind other parts of the world in implementation, says a report from Logicalis US. Based on an analysis of Cisco data, one year after World IPv6 Day, the U.S. ranks seventh in readiness for the new IP address […]

Study Finds Data Exchange Growing Through EHR Adoption Health IT is still experiencing growing pains. After its most recent annual leadership survey found staffing difficulties cited as a major barrier to implementing IT initiatives in health care organizations, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) created a new workforce survey. After 224 hospital and […]

As the job descriptions for data scientists and data analysts become more specific and the worries that not enough skilled potential hires are available in the right place at the right time to deal with Big Data initiatives, some CIOs see another potential problem arising from the race to maximize data analytics. And the negative […]

Can anyone say anything new about the problem of people opening spam- and malware-laden email, even after being warned and re-warned, trained and re-trained? Perhaps. Halon Security, which this week is highlighting its new Halon VApp, providing automated security for VMware users, also released results from a recent email security survey it carried out with […]

The announcement that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will step down from that position within the next 12 months has brought the often-neglected topic of succession planning to the forefront again. The attention is not yet as sharp as it was when Steve Jobs announced his medical leave from Apple, and it may not reach that […]

Outdated governance practices and over-reliance on traditional but ineffective capital allocation practices are preventing companies from keeping up with the “new work environment,” according to the results of research by CEB’s Andrew Horne and Brian Foster. Writing on the Harvard Business Review, Horne and Foster label what is being prevented as, broadly, “innovation.” The new […]

The Best and Worst Trends of On-the-Job Training Training budgets are more constrained than ever. Moving some training exercises and programs online can keep them from being cancelled or cut back, but brings up both more questions and perhaps more opportunities to measure results. Mindflash, a corporate online training provider, is beta testing an eye-tracking […]

Pay Attention to These Top 10 Job Search Trends It’s getting more and more difficult sometimes to figure out how certain online sites and businesses make their money. If you’re making a one-off visit to a site and you’re not asked to fork over any hard-earned cash yourself for the privilege, that’s not usually much […]

It may be too late to get to the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit in Sydney, Australia, August 19-20, 2013, but you may find space in your schedule for one of several other risk management-oriented conferences tackling a variety of IT challenges. The Gartner Summit features the theme, “Reset Your World: The Evolving Role […]