Deb Perelman

It’s hard to read two sentences in a technology magazine these days without bumping into the word “virtualization” or the company name VMware. VMware has gained attention by simultaneously creating new desktop standards, supporting disaster recovery, looking to the midmarket and increasing revenues 69 percent. Now IT job board Dice has announced that in the […]

It wasn’t very long ago that most people found jobs through friends, and companies filled positions through employee referrals. Yet according to a survey released the week of May 12 by Jobvite, the recruitment times have a-changed, and worker referrals are being pushed out by online social networks. Jobvite found that the clear majority (78 […]

Between outsourced jobs, feared salary competition from H-1B visa holders and the residual effects of the dot-com bust, IT as a field has been going through a confidence crisis for several years. In fact, Gartner analyst Lily Mok told eWEEK in December that she’d seen a recent informal poll in which the majority of IT […]

Of all of the promises of wireless advances-that workplaces will one day be unwired and employees will be able to work from anywhere at any time-they have done little to change the fact that it still matters where someone lives when he or she is looking for a job. In fact, it can matter quite […]

In a March 26 report, BusinessWeek showcased the best young entrepreneurs in tech, all aged 30 and under and considered the “most likely to shape the world’s digital future.” Of the 45 entrepreneurs, only three were women. Yet according to the Center for Women’s Business Research, women are strongly represented among entrepreneurs, launching 55 percent […]

You would have to be living on a desert island not to have heard by now about Google’s workplaces, which have been awarded top honors by nearly every available yardstick of corporate culture. And what’s not to love? The perks, from free gourmet lunches to swimming spas and childcare, are unmatched by Google’s competitors; they […]

What makes a work space terrible? Is it the gray-beige color scheme, the industrial-grade carpet, or the chipped Formica desks and fluorescent lights? Or is it the opposite, when a company is so desperate to keep up with the Googles that they try a little too hard–filling the offices with ping-pong tables, plastic toys and […]

With news of hiring freezes and budget cutbacks popping up everywhere, the job market is looking increasingly stormy for new graduates. A new report offers scant encouragement. Starting salaries for software developers and network and systems administrators have dipped by as much as $10,000 in May, according to JobFox, an employment firm. Software designers and […]

When most people think of outsourcing, they imagine U.S. businesses sending work to far-flung places like India, Russia and parts of southeast Asia where the salaries and cost of doing business are so much lower than in the United States that it makes a tremendous amount of fiscal sense. What people never picture, however, is […]

One of the main arguments touted by groups interested in seeing an increase in the cap on H-1B temporary worker visas is that those who wish to work here on these visas are some of the world’s best recruits, and their addition to the work force would foster U.S. innovation and global competitiveness. Opponents to […]