Kachina Shaw

Top 10 Mistakes Job Seekers Make Summer vacation: Isn’t it great? Except it is not what it used to be. We are either expected by our employers and clients to somehow remain accessible and productive 24/7 while we’re “off,” or we put that pressure on ourselves. Or we’re in the middle of a job search […]

The Seven Most Common Negotiating Mistakes Recruiting firm Entelo has added a new filtering tool called “More Likely to Move,” that is intended to flag employees who may be more inclined than others to change jobs in the next 90 days. The company has been working on the tool since its founding in 2011, according […]

Why the Mobile ‘Pocket Office’ Is Inevitable and Good for Business If President Obama signs a bill passed by the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives this month, which he is expected to do, a ban on unlocking of cell phones will be lifted. Silicon Beat’s Troy Wolverton succinctly explains the series of rulings and […]

Top 10 Traits of Successful IT Pros Wherever a growing technology trend appears, jobs and new skill sets follow. With a rapidly burgeoning list of consumer and enterprise products arising from opportunities around Internet of Things (IoT) data collection, preparations for training the existing workforce and predictions of new jobs bear watching. The changes go […]

Five Critical Steps for Handling a Security Breach A new report from New York State’s Attorney General details the damage to the state’s citizens and organizations from reported data breaches over the last eight years. “Information Exposed: Historical Examination of Data Breaches in New York State” attempts to illustrate the exponential growth in breaches, reports […]

Top 10 Traits of Successful IT Pros I had the opportunity this week to ask Eldonna Lewis-Fernandez, author of “Think Like a Negotiator,” a few questions about one of the most intimidating experiences many of us face in the workplace: negotiations. That is, if we don’t just avoid them like the plague. Sadly, shrewd negotiation […]

How the Internet of Things Will Change Our Lives Today, the TRUST Internet of Things Privacy Summit is being held in Silicon Valley. The event brings together analysts, policy makers and technologists at a time when “regulators at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the European Commission, and other organizations are already looking at the […]

Top 10 Traits of Successful IT Pros The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) role is hotter than ever, in midsized to larger enterprises. You might be surprised by the names of some of the firms that are hiring a CISO for the very first time. Many of them, like Target and Neiman-Marcus, are doing so […]

Seven Steps to Prepare for BYOD Most organizational decisions to try to slow or ban Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) in the workplace seem to circle around the security issues. Which, of course, are valid and concerning to IT groups who must balance conflicting security and productivity or convenience needs for users. CIO.com, for instance, […]

Top 10 Traits of Successful IT Pros One way to make yourself indispensable and endear yourself to your boss and coworkers is to tackle documentation projects for tasks, procedures, processes and the like. Because of time constraints, unless a dedicated staff person can fulfill a wide variety of documentation needs, those are the projects that […]

Tensions Between IT and Business Leadership Force New Approach to Delivering Technology When Dell Software recently surveyed IT professionals responsible for compliance with federal mandates, the results showed that over half of them struggle with these tasks, at least in part because of a reactive stance. Tim Sedlack, senior product manager for Dell Software, after […]

Top 25 Companies for Compensation and Benefits As of today, we do and we don’t have the millennials figured out, as far as what they seek in the workplace. But as their numbers grow, the answers are becoming more important. By 2025, according to Forbes, millennials will “fuel” 75 percent of the U.S. workplace, and […]