Don E. Sears

Workers 60 and over have overwhelmingly put retirement on the back burner, says a new study from CareerBuilder. Concerns and fear from a year ago are still on the minds of those near typical retirement age. Wall Street investment and the stock market grew in the last year, but that does not mean older workers […]

A slight majority of full time hires in 2009–51 percent–were internal employee promotions or lateral internal moves, according to a recent study focused on hiring and employee sourcing. The report comes from CareerXroads, whose annual Source of Hire study evaluates the who, what, where and how of company hiring and recruiting trends. The jump in […]

Top 25 Programming Errors That Kill Network Security by Don Sears No. 25: Race ConditionConsequences: Denial of Service, Code Execution, Data LossEase of Detection: ModerateWeakness Prevalence: MediumTraffic accidents occur when two vehicles attempt to use the exact same resource at almost exactly the same time, like the same part of the road. Race conditions in […]

The U.S. Department of Labor is not happy with one New Jersey-based software company using H-1B visas.Peri Software Solutions, which has offices in Los Angeles and San Jose, Calif., and offshore in Chennai, India, is accused of violating prevailing wage law for a large contingent of H-1B visa employees. According to a Department of Labor […]

CIOs and CTOs plan to spend their budgets when the recession is over on the IT purchases they had to put on hold in 2009, according to a report by staffing company Robert Half Technology, which polled 1,400 technology decision makers. What areas will they spend in? The largest single category of spending, at 37 […]

If you listen to what chief financial officers, chief operating officers and controllers are saying, it’s more bad news for the unemployed, according to a new quarterly study by the American Institute of Certified Planning Accountants and the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. The survey polled 998 financially centric executives between Jan. 27 […]

Aerospace and defense contracting company Boeing gave 60-day layoff notices for 1,020 employees. The bulk of the layoffs will happen in both its Puget Sound, Wash., and Seal Beach, Calif., locations, as well as other U.S. offices. Many of the cuts are information technology workers in Boeing’s Engineering, Operations and Technology unit, according to news […]

The 2009 economic stimulus package has not been proven to have created a whole lot of technology jobs, but that is not stopping President Obama from talking up its importance to the economy of the future. By and large, stimulus funds have been shown to have helped out beleaguered state and local governments, saving the […]

If you haven’t noticed, the average age of the workforce continues to drop. At no time is this more evident than when you ask older workers what it is like to be managed by younger bosses. A CareerBuilder report that polled 5,200 workers found 43 percent of workers who are 35 or older work under […]

President Obama’s first official State of the Union address is a few weeks old, but its message to American companies that operate subsidiaries in Asia has some questioning what direction the United States will go with technology workers, tax incentives and H-1B visas. With an economy slowly grinding its way out of recession and a […]