Don E. Sears

Top IT Worker Salary Averages by Location, Experience No Title Austin0-1 Year: 50,018 1-3 Years: $58,3674-6 Years: $75,3687-9 Years: $87,78610+ Years: $102,634 No Title Atlanta0-1 Year: $46,2051-3 Years: $51,8544-6 Years: $68,5657-9 Years: $83,78610+ Years: $98,449 No Title Boston0-1 Year: $48,7281-3 Years: $59,5844-6 Years: $78,6617-9 Years: $93,23310+ Years: $109,233 No Title Chicago0-1 Year: $43,2921-3 Years: $51,3124-6 […]

IT Skills You Will Need in the Coming Months by Don E. Sears Most Challenging Job to Fill? Networking: 19% Most Challenging Job to Fill? Application Development: 12% Most Challenging Job to Fill? Security: 12% Most Challenging Job to Fill? Software Development: 9% Most Challenging Job to Fill? Database Management: 9% Most Challenging Job to […]

Following a report on the latest IT spending data from technology research company Computer Economics that found 42 percent of surveyed companies were reducing IT staff, eWEEK interviewed Computer Economics analyst John Longwell. In an e-mail exchange June 24, Longwell explained some of the nuances of the company’s latest report, “IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks […]

Remember all the talk of the recession being over and companies being cautiously optimistic about hiring in technology? A report on IT spending released in June finds a whole lot more caution than optimism right now.Over 40 percent of respondents from 200 companies in the United States and Canada said they are reducing IT staff […]

Should You Consult While Looking for an IT Job? by Don E. Sears Question No. 1: Flexibility Does it still give me time to be flexible in my job search? Question No. 2: New Marketable Skills Would I learn anything new that I can use to showcase my skills and experience? Question No. 3: Brand […]

What you earn in technology depends on where you live. The delta between what a technology worker with 10 or more years of experience earns on average in the Atlanta area and what a tech worker with the same experience in Silicon Valley makes is roughly $27,000, according to data released June 17 by Glassdoor.com, […]

6 Critical IT Hiring Trends to Watch in 2010 by Don E. Sears Do you anticipate hiring more professionals in the second half of 2010 than in the first half? Yes, substantially more hiring in the second half: 20% Yes, slightly more hiring in the second half: 51% No: 29% What trend do you see […]

The Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010, S.3480 as introduced by ranking Senate members of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is intended to create an Office of Cyber Policy in the executive branch of the government, confirmed by the Senate and ultimately reporting to the president. The bill was presented […]

Staffing companies that specialize in recruiting H-1B visa holders for technology positions are pushing back at Uncle Sam with a lawsuit. A senior official of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Donald Neufield, published a memo in January changing the rules for what constituted a true employee-to-employer relationship for the H-1B category, and staffing companies […]

Like the dips, curves and rapid fluctuations to U.S. stock prices, so go the figures on technology job gains and losses. There had been plenty of optimism in the air after government reports in April had shown gains of 8,800 technology jobs. Analysis of information technology jobs’ figures for May has one technology research firm […]