Deb Perelman

Signifying a confident incoming workforce, 89 percent of prospective graduates said that they expect to receive at least one job offer when they graduate, while 74 percent expect two or more offers, which is 10 percent more than last year, according to a new entry-level job report. The report, published on April 2 by New […]

The yearly rough and tumble for H-1B temporary workers visas is in full swing this weekend, as the first day of the filing season is Monday, April 2. The years allotment of 65,000 slots is anticipated to be exhausted in record time. The agency that oversees the visa program, the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Service, […]

By now, we’ve all heard of Bangladore, Delhi and Mumbai. But Ahmedabad? Kochi? Nagpur? In a report issued March 29 by global advisory firm Alsbridge, each of these Indian cities are listed among the potential locations for the next big outsourcing hot spot for major corporations worldwide. Chosen for accessibility, education of their work force […]

Junior salesmen and female workers between the ages of 26 and 35, they’ve got their eye on you. In a survey of workplace security sinners released March 29 by MessageLabs, IT decision makers made you their top risk. How dare they? It’s all your fault. You’re tech-savvy, using applications like e-mail, instant messenger, VOIP (voice […]

Skilled IT staff fell out of the top 10 “hot jobs” in Manpower’s annual Talent Shortage survey, released March 29, due to workforce optimization. The survey also revealed that employer requirements for IT staff and administrative assistants/personal assistants in 2006 have been surpassed by other in-demand positions such as accounting and finance staff and laborers, […]

CIOs spoke highly of their jobs and roles in a survey released by KPMG and Harvey Nash on March 21. Eighty-five percent of CIOs said they found their jobs fulfilling, with 25 percent saying that they were “very” fulfilled and 63 percent saying that they were “quite” fulfilled. More than two-thirds said they were neither […]

A low rate of mobile telephone usage, a lack of government leadership in IT and the low quality of math and science education were blamed for the United States slipping to seventh place in the 2006-2007 Global Information Technology Reports Network Readiness Index, released by the World Economic Forum and INSEAD, an international business school, […]

According to the World Health Organization, between 750 million and 1 billion of the worlds 6 billion people have a speech, vision, mobility, hearing or cognitive disability which can preclude them from using one or many aspects of a traditional computer setup. Yet its not only the disabled who have difficulty navigating software and technology; […]

The health of the U.S. technology industry is at its highest level in five-and-a-half years, finds the latest quarterly index from Forrester Research and Information Technology Association of America, released March 21. The Q4 2006 Index suggested that there will be continued slow but steady gains for the tech sector in 2007. Based on 11 […]

What is the state of the enterprise IT workplace today? Employee rotation in and out of IT roles was the theme of the day at Forresters Teleconference on the Enterprise IT Career March 19, correlated with more successful recruitment and better worker retention. Yet only a minority of firms embraced these concepts. Recruitment While computer […]