Don E. Sears

Technology workers saw a 0.3 percent increase in employment or roughly 12,900 more jobs in January, as reported by TechServe Alliance, which publishes a monthly technology outlook based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. TechServe Alliance, formerly known as the National Association of Computer Consultant Businesses, is a 500-member trade organization. In December, […]

IT workers are due to receive a median 1.8 percent bump in salary in 2010-below the 2.7 percent rate of inflation and the lowest rate in the last five years-according to data from a 2010 salary report from Computer Economics. A similar report from technology job board Dice, in January, showed that in 2009 tech […]

Silicon Valley and the Northern California Bay Area have seen a dramatic change in wages and job opportunities from 2000 through 2008 for high-tech workers, according to a report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ San Francisco office. (PDF) Adjusted for inflation, wages and stock-related pay have been seriously hurt by two bubble economies, companies […]

Job cuts across all industries have reached a five-month high at 71,482, according to Chicago-based outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Retail, telecommunications and pharmaceutical companies are leading the pack in layoffs. The telecommunications sector announced 14,010 in January, said C,G & E. Roughly 13,000 layoffs were announced by Verizon last week as the largest […]

What is the most popular area of IT outsourcing? According to one study, it is and has been application development for the past three years, but it is declining. In 2009, 33 percent of 200 companies surveyed by Irvine, Calif.-based research firm Computer Economics outsourced application development. Those numbers are down roughly 20 percentage points […]

As part of its Jan. 26 earnings announcement, Verizon said it expects to lay off 13,000 more employees to help alleviate diminishing revenues. While revenues are better in its wireless division, legacy land-line revenues continue to decline as more and more customers are dropping land lines, going solely wireless or finding Internet-based telephone services such […]

In December, the Computing Technology Industry Association decided lifetime A+, Network+ and Security+ certifications were going to retroactively require renewal every three years. The response from the IT community was particularly thorny, and rightfully so. Why the changes? According to Ars Technica, CompTIA was getting its accreditation process evaluated by several larger accreditation organizations, including […]

Human resources … we have a problem. Behavior in the workplace varies widely, but it can make some individuals believe they don’t fit in with the culture of their organization. When almost four in 10 (39 percent) of nearly 5,000 survey respondents of a November CareerBuilder survey say they do not feel they fit in […]

Job cuts in technology were fierce in 2009. Last year saw 174,629 jobs lost in the sector, catapulting up 12.3 percent from the 2008 cuts of 155,570 jobs, according to outplacement company Challenger, Gray & Christmas, which tracks industry numbers on announced layoffs. Technology-still considered by the Department of Labor to be one of the […]

Salaries for U.S. technology professionals rose a measly 1 percent in 2009 to an average of $78,845, well below the annual inflation rate of 2.7 percent for the year, according to a recent survey by technology job board Dice. Furthermore, the lack of wage growth fills technology professionals with a high level of job dissatisfaction.Nearly […]