Donald Sears

There’s a whole lot more to social networks than connecting with old friends and sharing photos. The old saying, “it’s not what you know, it’s who,” is really more like, “it’s what you know and who knows about it” these days. LinkedIn is a professional social network that can help leverage your career for business […]

It’s no secret that most of us are being asked to do more for less pay or to take on more work to help maximize the productivity of the company. Here’s what your manager should be doing to help keep you on track, and keep you motivated–though you should be asking yourself how you can […]

Network infrastructure giant Cisco Systems plans to cut 600 to 700 workers from its San Jose campus, according to a source cited by the San Jose Mercury News. The cuts are “part of 2,000 positions CEO John Chambers had forecast in February would be eliminated from Cisco’s global work force of about 66,560,” said the […]

Dice has announced its latest Website targeted at the certification and training needs of technology workers. Dice obviously sees training and certifications as a large opportunity in the current economy and recession. It’s a pretty smart idea to extend its brand in this way. You may be on its job search site, so why not […]

Don’t want to work for the government? Well, it may just be the best place to find IT work lately, or so says a Washington Post article, “As Technology Needs Grow, One Sector Has No Shortage of Jobs.” According to the article, spending on IT services is expected to grow 3.5 percent over the next […]

The hits just keep on coming, techies. Nearly 120,000 job cuts have happened in technology in the first half of 2009, according to a newly released study by outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Here’s the picture from the C, G, & E statement: “Despite the second-quarter decline, tech-sector job cuts for the first half […]

With all the graduates in science and engineering, plus all the folks currently looking for work, it’s a challenging time. There is the constant chatter from the big boys of tech for the need for more technicians and people with technical aptitudes. But look at these numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on electrical […]

One Stanford academic is saying there is a major flaw in how project time is calculated, particularly in software development. All it takes, says Professor Sam Savage of Stanford University, is for one inflexible average number to be added in a spreadsheet to throw off the whole project. Tony Kontzer at CIO Insight writes in […]

A recent study from job site CareerBuilder.com shows a large number of people are seeking out jobs in federal, state and city governments–to the tune of 88 percent of 2,900 people polled. From the CareerBuilder.com press release: “Forty-one percent reported that they are interested in jobs within the Federal government, while 47 percent said they […]

We’ve all heard about crazy things companies try to make potential job candidates do to get jobs. You don’t have to look any further than television’s The Apprentice series for an extreme example. In the UK, a mobile marketing company, Teimlo, is only accepting job applicants via text message using 160 characters or less—which is […]