Donald Sears

Mork calling Orson… Come in, Orson. I may date myself with this reference, but here goes… Haven’t you always wanted to go to the town that Mork from Ork lived in? Ok, that is a silly Mork & Mindy (Robin Williams/Pam Dawber) TV show reference, I know, but that’s about all I know about Boulder. […]

Brian Watson over at CIO Insight has a nice little debate going on H-1B visas. H-1B visas are probably the single most hotly debated subjects in IT careers-land because of the perceived shrinkage of job opportunities and affect on IT salaries that H-1Bs create for domestic IT workers and the IT space. The crux of […]

Bail us out, Obi One Bernanke: You’re our only hope. The always ready-to-report on the job market folks at Challenger, Gray and Christmas will have reports out next week (and the one after that) on the following two items. Here’s what their media alerts are telling us right now (as if we didn’t know the […]

It wasn’t that I had watched Office Space for the 700th time this past weekend. Actually, I read this this InfoWorld article delving in to the issue of angry IT workers and the havoc that can happen that got me thinking. Is there something about the nature of IT workers that causes some to engineer […]

After my last post on a published report that Microsoft support jobs are showing signs of real stability, multiple readers have chimed in to talk about the level of heavy frustration they have with what those jobs pay these days — much less than they expected. One reader went so far as to say that […]

Freddie Mac (the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.) and Fannie Mae, part of the mortgage mayhem, have been bailed out by the federal government, but they still need someone to manage all the elements of cubicle productivity: your PC and the network it lives on. According to a recent report from Robert Half Technology that […]

Stop wasting my time You know what I want You know what I need Or maybe you don’t Do I have to come right Flat out and tell you everything? Gimme some money Gimme some money -Lyrics from “Gimme Some Money” by Spinal Tap Free job tools on the Internet are plentiful, but not always […]

The oft-quoted, recruiting-centric firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas has put out its latest outlook for jobs for the remainder of 2008–with a peek into 2009. I recently reported on a report from Challenger on layoffs so far for the year. Information technology workers are seen to not be as affected by the overall economic trends, […]

An August report on IT turnover rates from Computer Economics leads with the following interpretation of its research: Flexible schedules and training opportunities can be just as effective at and important to keeping you at a job as money and benefits. Do you agree? What’s important to you? The annual survey bases its research on […]

I don’t want to irk the professional analysts too much because I think they are accomplishing good, smart work. When done right, research is well-imagined, thoughtfully engineered around data, and will have a deep perspective on technology markets and the jobs that service them. Analysts thrive in this area. IT is more than a mere […]