Don E. Sears

The leaves may be turning toward a winter rest, but technology work is not going dormant. Contract and project-based work is flourishing compared to last year. Silicon Valley technology jobs are at a two-year high on at least one job board. Technology job vacancies are up across the board in every region of the country, […]

A closer look at U.S. government data on technology jobs shows IT services–known as those jobs that fall under the category management and technology services to be the most robust area of technology employment over the last four months. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, which falls under the direction of the U.S. Department of Labor, […]

About a fifth of companies are planning to hire in the last quarter of the year, but worker sentiment is all over the map, and it’s not all that rosy. Just over 21 percent of companies are planning to hire either full-time or temporary workers in the fourth quarter-which is consistent with 2009 hiring expectations […]

Cloud, Cost Cutting, Continuity Top IT Management Concerns by Don E. Sears No. 10: Globalization As the investment world has followed international opportunities, the money has been flowing from the United States and into emerging markets and the labor forces of these markets. Information technology is not immune. Whether its internal expansion of employees abroad […]

Based on economic analysis from government officials, the recession ended in June 2009, but don’t tell that to folks with or without a full-time job right now. Worker and would-be worker sentiment is lousy. Workers have seen benefits reduced, continued layoffs, and pay and benefit cuts, and are not feeling all that positive about their […]

The private sector shed 39,000 jobs between August and September, according to a monthly employment report from payroll giant Automatic Data Processing, which tracks private-sector hiring with the aid of economists from Macroeconomic Advisers. The report receives data from 500,000 U.S. businesses and more than 2 million private-sector employees. The only industry sector of the […]

IT workers, listen up: Management is budgeting for raises next year. These raises, however, come with an expectation for technology to be a strategic cost-cutting and simultaneous revenue-producing investment. Business intelligence-despite its expense and effort-continues to be the No. 1 technology investment of 2010. In exact terms, 61 percent of executives are planning to give […]

Online job vacancies rose by nearly 60,000 open positions in September, according to data measured monthly by The Conference Board, a nonprofit business research organization. Since June 2009, online job vacancies have expanded by 1 million positions-an increase of 30 percent. In September, technology saw the most job-vacancy gain of any industry, with 15,200 newly […]

A global CIO study from 2010 reveals that 90 percent of CIOs will be maintaining or increasing offshore outsourcing projects in 2010 and 2011. According to the UK-based IT staffing and managed services firm Harvey Nash, outsourcing has been greatly used during the recession and CIOs are inclined to continue using outsourced services. In its […]

How Your Salary Stacks Up Against Other IT Pros by Don E. Sears Data Analyst 1-3 Years: $51,6484-6 Years: $55,8387-9 Years: $58,86410 or More Years: $69,358??íJobs in this category encompass business analysts, business intelligence experts, data mining extractors, and anyone bridging the gap between data as a resource for business use and IT. Companies that […]