Donald Sears

Job site Careerbuilder released a study yesterday showing, not surprisingly, that workers over 60 years old are having to stay working for a lot longer than they wanted or expected given the economy and state of their retirement savings. This story has been done to death by the mainstream media, but it’s still interesting to […]

TechCrunch, you’ve outdone yourself. Have you seen the TechCrunch technology layoff tracker? Without gushing too much, this resource page is awesome for its interactive features and for showing the scope of the affected–from the smallest of startups to the giants of the industry. It’s complete with an interactive graphic that charts the chronology of layoffs, […]

Embedded video from CNN Video Today, I thought I’d take a little break from the normal IT salary and career reporting and share a green jobs video I happened upon. Talk about on-location reporting. Check out how nervous this scared-of-heights journalist is atop a wind turbine in California. This is part of CNN’s “Road to […]

A recent study which polled 1,600 students online appears to show that 8 in 10 college students see a growing need for understanding technology better, and they want skills for technology-related jobs. Citing the Obama administration’s efforts in digitizing medical records, widening the adoption and infrastructure for broadband and wireless technologies and getting more efficient […]

The good folks over at Robert Half Technology recently put out its quarterly IT Hiring Index and Skills Report report with an eye on the second quarter of 2009. With over 1400 CIOs polled in the survey, the report is a steadfast gauge of the kind of IT skills, trends, and challenges are happening in […]

On March 3, I wrote about a 2009 salary report for the Tri-state area (New York, New Jersey, Connecticut) published by placement company Bluewolf, which also has a side business of remote database administrator services. I noticed a couple of areas of salary growth in IT mentioned in the report and wondered why Bluewolf hadn’t […]

The Dice Report is a monthly take on trends in IT hiring, technology job postings and other statistical information that Dice can synthesize from its established job board. The most significant findings to me are about where the jobs seem to be. With the accompanying graph as evidence, take a look at where technology jobs […]

If you ever wondered how the Web helps reduce many things in business to a commodity where you get a whole lot more but pay a whole lot less, look no further. Paid search marketing, as in paying to have your company’s ad come up next to search results in Google and other engines, has […]

Is IBM deliberately scaling back American jobs for foreign ones? Is Big Blue trying to keep news of layoffs out of the press and away from stockholders who might look to invest elsewhere? For a number of reasons, one arguably being to keep IBM’s stock a consistent darling of the market, it appears IBM is […]

What is Facebook’s status? Facebook is … hiring, has sweet benefits and needs security expertise. The social networking gargantuan has a solid number of jobs listed for technology pros in almost every expected category. I counted no fewer than 35 jobs that are technology-related, with a number of gigs in the U.K. and Ireland, but […]