Donald Sears

LinkedIn has not had a major upgrade to the groups’ platform in almost two years, and this latest one for groups is bound to open up more opportunities in your job search with participation. While the groups section isn’t directly related to job opportunities, it is an area of the site giving users the ability […]

This is the story of how delusions of grandeur, show horses and fake IBM affiliations will put a Dutch con man in jail. George Carlo Schouten, a 36-year-old Dutchman living like a duke in the countryside of England, played the part of the wealthy son of an IBM executive. The only problem was he is […]

This video comes from the O’Reilly Media conference Velocity and is officially entitled “A Day in the Life of Facebook Operations,” presented by Facebook Systems Engineer Tom Cook. It’s a pretty interesting look at managing the ever-changing systems environment at a company that has grown exponentially in six years. Cook begins by going over some […]

An analysis by U.S. government research company Input sees continued opportunity for IT contractors over the next five years, starting with fiscal year 2011. The government intends to spend upward of $110 billion on IT by 2015, from $86 billion in 2011. That’s “a compound annual growth rate of 5.4 percent” in five years, Input […]

German application software giant SAP is looking for experienced application developers, project managers, cloud computing experts, mobile developers and those with deep partner experience for its laboratory in Palo Alto, Calif., according to Dice News. The news comes as a bit of surprise given that SAP is in the process of acquiring database and mobile […]

A recent CIO.com article on how one Indian outsourcing company is watching pending visa legislation shines a light on the challenges faced when economies go sour, politicians become more protectionist and growing businesses expand their foothold in the United States, yet have a large foreign-worker presence here. A rule known as the 50/50 rule in […]

Job demand in California’s capital city is up, according to the Sacramento Bee. Not known as a technology hub for jobs, it is a good sign to hear about smaller cities like Sacramento see an uptick in demand for technology talent. “At more than 500 open information technology positions [on the Dice job board for […]

Technology companies in cities like Austin, Texas and Raleigh, North Carolina are competing more frequently with Silicon Valley for engineering, software and development talent. According to The Wall Street Journal, tech workers are able to be more choosy about their employers this year compared to last with higher job demand and an economy in recovery […]

The recent media attention on the suicides of Chinese factory workers who manufacture and assemble products like Apple’s iPhone, Sony and Dell computers and anything electronic has caused Hon Hai Group to up the pay rates of workers by some 20 percent. But will wage increases be enough? Is this announcement late last week only […]

In a recession, workers are always worrying about the stability of their jobs and the perception that taking time off from their jobs would be thought of as shirking productivity for pleasure. While workers acknowledge that we are not completely out of the recessionary woods, the forest is looking a lot fuller than it did […]