Donald Sears

Industry organization CompTIA is promoting a new program to promote technology certifications–including a specific program called “Getting America Back to Work” targeting unemployed IT workers. “The current employment market for high-tech workers can best be described as a paradox,” said Todd Thibodeaux, president and CEO of CompTIA in a statement. “At a time when unemployment […]

Failure in technology projects is as sure as the setting of the sun. Trying to estimate what it costs businesses on a global scale, however, is a bit more of a guess game than an exact science. A recent white paper on global tech failure and its monetary costs has been getting a fair amount […]

Dennis McCafferty over at Baseline has an excellent question and answer interview with the CTO of the U.S. government, Aneesh Chopra, who works with President Barack Obama daily. Be sure to read the full interview for insight in to what a day in the life of a CTO in government is like. One interesting bit […]

Plain and simple: Good job references are like precious gold jewelry. Treat them with great care, career experts advise. One of the last duties a human resources professional or recruiter will carry out is reference checking, and the impression your references give about you can be more significant than you might have thought–especially in a […]

IBM is taking advantage of tax rebates in Boulder, Colo., and hiring 500 customer service call center workers over the next five years, say news reports from the AP, Wall Street Journal, Daily Camera and Longmont Times-Call. The 500 jobs will come between now and 2014, said the Daily Camera, a locally published Boulder media […]

Depending on who you ask, there is either optimism on hiring for technology jobs in the first quarter of 2010 or there is flatness. Recent studies from Gartner Research and Computer Economics expect jobs to rise in the first part of 2010. How many jobs are we talking about? No one seems to ask. They […]

Regardless of how much time and energy you put in trying to convince senior bean counters that you can prove return on investment in IT projects, you might consider scrapping that completely and focusing on real financial issues, suggests Irwin Teodoro, director of systems integration, at Laurus Technologies. What struck me with this piece is […]

IT contracting and freelance work is up in 2009, mainly due to layoffs, pay cuts and other economic realities beaten to death in the media. The good news is there is no shortage of IT contracting and freelance technology work Websites that let you advertise your skills, compete for work and build client reference lists. […]

It hasn’t been a good year for IT jobs, but there are some segments of IT faring better than others, shows analysis of recently released government data crunched by Foote Partners, an IT research firm based in Florida. Net gains in the five category segments of IT tracked by the BLS show 11,200 jobs added […]

The national coordinator for health IT, Dr. David Blumenthal, recently announced that training for jobs in health IT will be coming to a community college near you. Federal stimulus money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (to the tune of $80 million dollars) has been put aside for grants to help kick-start […]