The unemployment rate for people at the heart of many tech innovations -- electrical engineers -- rose sharply in the first quarter of this year for reasons that aren't clear. The number of electrical engineering jobs declined by 40,000 ...
CompTIA, the non-profit association for the information technology (IT) industry, concluded its fourth Annual Member Meeting this week with heavy focus on how to do business in an increasingly mobile world where technology users expect and ...
Tech employment posted a large increase last month, despite a generally soft employment gain overall, according to two separate reports. The U.S. economy added 157,000 jobs in January, but IT accounted for 22,100 of those jobs, according ...
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In 2008 London accounted for 33.8%of new UK IT jobs.Most other regions recorded a reducing share of new jobs. A large proportion of London-based IT jobs are in the financial services sector which was hit hardest by the economic slowdown ...
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Electronics firm Philips has called on skills specialist The Open Group to reorganise its IT workforce. The move enables Philips to identify the skills already available within its company and to create a clear career development path ...
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When Ken Stephens, a senior vice president of Xerox Cloud Services, tried to hire a product manager from IBM recently, he had quite a shock. "I offered him a 40 percent raise," Stevens said in an interview. "But then IBM came back and gave ...
The IT job market is either hot or lackluster, but mostly it is difficult for anyone who is seeking a job or hiring. There are plenty of companies searching for employees, but jobs are nonetheless elusive for many. It's a job market of ...
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Computerworld - Scientists studying Earth system processes, including climate change, are now working with one of the largest supercomputers on the planet. The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has begun using a 1.5 petaflop ...
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Nathan Brown is one of a growing number of CIOs who are experienced in moving from one sector to another,including from commercial to government and from for-profit to nonprofit.He's currently in an IT leadership position at Care.com after ...
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