Donald Sears

A recent report says September saw a significant improvement in IT services jobs, according to Vero Beach, Fla.-based Foote Partners. The IT industry analyst firm tracks data in the five segments of technology that the Department of Labor provides: communications, computer peripherals, management technical consulting, computer systems design and data processing/hosting. Foote is particularly impressed […]

A decades long study by psychologist Tim Judge has shown that those who believe they are in more control of their own career paths and are confident in their abilities outperform by many times those who see themselves as victims. The news on this study is tough medicine for many who have lost their jobs […]

The headline for a recent Forrester report should be: “If you build it, they won’t come.” Forrester’s “Workforce Technographics US Benchmark Survey” from the second quarter of this year and released this week shows that the most advanced applications are simply not used by the largest groups. The top things used: e-mail, Web browsers, word […]

Republican Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley is pushing for reform in the H-1B visa program and recently urged the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to ask for evidence that workers coming over to the United States actually have employment. Grassley recently wrote to the director of the USCIS: “Simply put, adjudicators should be asking companies […]

As part of the kick of for National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the Department of Homeland Security recently announced that it will hire 1,000 top security professionals to help fight off the threats the U.S. faces over computer networks, infrastructure and the Internet over the next 3 years. “Effective cybersecurity requires all partners–individuals, communities, government entities […]

It may be the most common scenario in IT. Too many projects, and not enough staff to handle the work. Add a down economy, the downsizing of staff, trimming of costs, and pressure to get strategically competitive projects up and running yesterday, and you have a stress cauldron boiling over that requires tough leadership and […]

Technology projects rarely go off without a hitch. We all know it, and we all have seen and absorbed an unnecessary amount of stress, blame and headaches from projects gone wrong. Why do they go wrong? Bad project management? Poor planning? Bad estimation of work scheduling? Missed dependencies? It’s easy to have one throat to […]

We’ve all heard about government jobs, but where are they? Well, the government has a pretty good-looking Website that will tell you exactly what it is looking for, and where the jobs are located. There is a projected total of 11,549 IT employees to be hired by the U.S. government between now and 2012. Check […]

Readers of the recent eWEEK article “How Offshoring May Be Hurting U.S. Technology Workers” has garnered many comments expressing a wide of range of emotional and economic anger, frustration and confusion. Here’s a look at some of the comments. From contributor “Mike” with the subject “Per Capita Productivity”: “The ugly truth no American wants to […]

I mentioned the decline of jobs in Silicon Valley in passing in an article on IT jobs for the fourth quarter yesterday, but it’s really worthy of its own post. The loss of 85,000 jobs over a seven-year period is not something to gloss over. That’s right. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has taken a […]