Donald Sears

Women of technology, listen up: There is a growing demand for your talents, especially for those who left temporarily or for the long haul to focus on having and raising families. According to the Wall Street Journal, many high-tech companies are seeking the skill sets of women who may have left high-paying careers. Some well-known […]

Bluewolf, an IT job placement agency based in New York, has recently published its 2009 IT Salary Report for the Tri-state Area (N.Y., N.J., Connecticut) which features numbers for both 2008 and 2009 for comparison. It is important to note that these numbers are predictions based on Bluewolf’s experience in the IT space, as in […]

Recruiters for technology professionals can be a blessing and a curse. When times are good and your skill sets are in demand, recruiters can be on you like ants at a summer picnic. They are a collective, somewhat exploitative group (in the sense that they make coin off your talents and really want to talk […]

It will not because there has not been a large quantities of technology hiring as there were during the Internet bubble buildup in the late 1990s, according to what Tom Silver, the CMO of the technology jobs’ website Dice told CIO.com. Given that U.S. government data came out today that now shows the recession began […]

But are companies doing a lot of hiring right now? That isn’t the focus of a jobs report (pdf) from the website Jobfox. Its latest report entitled “The Top 25 Most Recession-Proof U.S. Job Candidates” from October 2008 focuses on 4,000 job postings during a 120-day period that ended near the end of October. They […]

The number of unemployed who are near their final unemployment checks is at a staggering 1.2 million workers, and their checks are due to end at the close of December, according to the Washington-think tank, the Economic Policy Institute. 20081119snapshot600.jpg From the EPI blog post: “The unemployment rate has increased to 6.5% nationally, and it […]

There is a good post on TechRepublic reporting on the Society of Information Management’s recent IT trends study that makes the case for there possibly being more hype than reality when it comes to offshoring. The basic argument is that as a measure against the total of IT budgets, offshoring is still a minor piece […]

H-1B visa holders and the companies that use them are bound to be in for more scrutiny after a recent report examining fraud in the program. USCIS (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services) recently released a report to members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee examining issues with fraud and technical violations within the H-1B visa […]

I recently caught up with one of my contacts whose company makes a good chunk of its change from the financial services industry to find out how things were going for his particular niche in these recession-laden days. Bill Hayduk, President of RTTS (Real-Time Technology Solutions), let me know that in the space in which […]

This will most likely apply to those of you in the greater New York City region only, but seeing as it’s the most populated metropolitan area of the United States, it should resonate a bit. There are technology jobs in the area with startups, and while that may be attractive to some, I don’t imagine […]