Don E. Sears

You may not have noticed, but systems engineering is a promising career choice. In 2009, it was rated No. 1 out of the Top 50 careers in terms of salary and growth prospects over the next 10 years by CNNMoney.com and Payscale.com. Right now in May 2010, the average wage for a systems engineer is […]

Accounting firm Grant Thornton recently surveyed 496 chief financial officers on a number of economic and business topics. Of the nearly 500 financial executives, 53 of them worked for technology companies. Tech CFOs were more positive across the board. The 53 in that group were feeling pretty decent about their budgets and hiring, but don’t […]

Payroll services company Automatic Data Processing has released its monthly figures on employment based on private-sector payroll information. This is the monthly report that Wall Street and many news organizations look to every month on the eve of the governmental release of employment figures for the previous month.The news from ADP is that 32,000 new […]

Is IT management at the top of the corporate ladder losing its luster? Not completely, but was it ever really there?Call it business alignment or bottom-line buffering, a good lot of CIOs do not have the direct ears of CEOs. A chunk of technology leaders in enterprise companies report to CFOs (42 percent), according to […]

Just over a third of nearly 4,000 workers believe the economy is improving and just over 40 percent are confident they can find a new job, according to a study conducted by staffing firm Technisource. The Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based company tracks IT worker confidence and reported last week that it is slightly up at an […]

The technology job market is rife with enigmas in 2010. The recession had most companies cost-cutting last year and no department in corporate America was spared. It was unavoidable. Yet, as the dust settled on budgets for 2010, companies were shifting the way they hired technology workers away from permanent placement to hiring skills on-demand, […]

How many H-1B visa holders are in the U.S. workforce? In fiscal year 2009, 0.06 percent of the national labor force was made up of H-1B visa holders, according to analysis of U.S. immigration data by the nonprofit public policy group the National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP). In that same fiscal year, the United […]

28 Hot Tech Skills That Will Bump Up Your Salary in 2010 by Donald E. Sears Skill: Adobe Flex & Tomcat Skill: Apple Mac OS X Skill: CGI Skill: CSS Skill: HTML/DHTML/XHTML Skill: JavaScript Skill: JavaServer Pages Skill: Perl Skill: SAP Web App Server Skill: SAP Basis Components Skill: SAP Financial Supply Chain Management (FS-FSCM) […]

Nearly 90 percent of 2,222 individuals polled in a March survey said they think the economy is still in a recession, according to staffing company Adecco Group. In similar vein, 78 percent said they believe this is the worst job market they have seen in their careers. And yet, many are looking for new job […]

Some of the big technology players that are seeing signs of improved earnings and profit are also seeing an increase in hiring and hiring expectations for 2010. Google, Intel, Cisco Systems and others have increased their headcounts in the first quarter of 2010 and will continue to hire throughout the remainder of the year. Even […]