Deb Perelman

Employment in Canada is humming and payrolls in the IT sector are growing, helping to make Canada an attractive target for IT skills. Employment in Canada grew 3.2 percent between 2003 and 2005 (the most recent years for which data is available), outpacing the United States, where employment rose 2.9 percent in the same period. […]

After getting caught in the crossfire between the two federal bodies that control the immigration system—the State Department and the Citizenship and Immigration Service—the American Immigration Lawyers Association threatened June 5 to bring a class action lawsuit against the U.S. immigration agencies. The cause of the furor dates back to June 13, when the State […]

What will be the next big offshoring frontier? While the experts dont all have the same locations in mind, they all agree that it will no longer be in India. Salary inflation is largely to blame for the change in course. When the outsourcing boom took off in 2004, the salaries of software engineers were […]

India’s outsourcing boom has largely been powered by Silicon Valley, which has shifted great sums of IT and engineering jobs in Bangalore’s direction for the last several years. When the outsourcing boom took off in 2004, the salaries of software engineers were but one quarter of what San Francisco-area computer engineers made, evidencing the clear […]

Reservations about finances, hiring and job security mounted in June, driving IT worker confidence to its lowest point in four months, according to the latest poll on the subject. Twenty-five percent of IT workers are worried about job security and a mere 52 percent said their finances were in good shape, found the Hudson Employment […]

Every year Popular Science magazine publishes The Worst Jobs in Science, a “bottom-10 list” saluting the “men and women who do what no salary can adequately reward.” Published in the June issue, the 2007 list had its share of groan-inducing jobs, including Whale-Feces Researcher, a title that really should defy commentary, but I will say […]

It may come as a surprise to many executives, but workers arent leaving their jobs just because they are not happy with their pay, according to the experts. Unless the gap between what an individual is making and the market valuation of their role is particularly wide, a higher salary might be the perk that […]

The U.S. Senate voted June 28 against advancing a controversial immigration reform bill, effectively killing the closely watched legislation and dashing the hopes of IT employers whod hoped for an increase in the number of H-1B work visas this year. The bill, which President Bush called his top domestic priority for 2007, was effectively blocked […]

As difficult as its proving for companies to fill their high-tech ranks, it turns out that high-level executives are just as difficult to retain. Rather than seeking greener pastures (as in cash), however, it seems that executives are hoping that the grass is more fulfilling on the other side of the corporate firewall. “Money simply […]

A video in which an immigration law firm offers advice on avoiding hiring U.S. workers when a foreign worker is preferred for a position set off a firestorm of criticism last week, drawing the attention, and ire, of a U.S. senator and congressman, who call it a “blatant disregard for American workers.” In a letter […]