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Clash of the generations: IT vets and fresh talent scramble for the same jobs
When Bill Horne sauntered into an evening meet-and-greet being held by a local packaging company in search of fresh IT talent, the retired computer engineer knew his chances of leaving the event with a job offer were slim.The IT job market is tanking -- but not for everyone
Shortly after Donnie Reynolds, the chief operating officer at Automated HealthCare Solutions, learned that Microsoft planned to cut 5,000 workers over the next 18 months, he and another employee of the medical services provider flew to the software vendor's home city.Study: Half of developers plan to work on SaaS in '09
More than half of all developers worldwide on average are expecting to work on SaaS (software as a service) applications within the next year, according to a new survey by Evans Data Corporation.Agency sees robots replacing humans in service jobs by 2025
A U.S. government intelligence agency thinks robots may be so capable by 2025 that questions such as "Would you like fries with that?" may be uttered by a smiling machine at the order counter.With Sun's job cuts, tech sector layoffs in '08 hit 140,000
The economic downturn that has resulted in tens of thousands of layoffs in the housing and financial services sectors is now bearing down on the tech industry. The job cuts announced by Sun Microsystems on Friday are only the latest in the growing toll.Would you recommend an IT career for your kids?
Is a career in IT worth pursuing? Do you love it so much that as an active participant in the area, you’d recommend your kids follow suit? Or will you be drawing them away with whatever it takes?Women more likely than men to get hurt in IT workplaces
While injuries can occur in any workplace, when something happens at an IT-related business, women employees are more likely to get hurt, according to data from the US Department of Labor.IT workers: How that desk job wears your body down
Let's say you're a young IT manager, in your 20s, 30s or even early 40s. It's not unheard of for you to put in 10-hour workdays in front of your computer, or some other user's.Women playing catch-up in fast paced IT industry
Being undervalued in the workplace is the biggest concern of Australian women in IT, according to the Australian Computer Society’s (ACS) Women Members Survey.Angry IT workers: A ticking time bomb?
It was 9:30 on the morning of March 4, 2002, and something was terribly wrong at the offices of PaineWebber UBS. Computers in branches all over the country began showing disc errors. A logic bomb buried deep within the machines had wiped their hard drives clean, preventing 17,000 brokers from making trades.Study: IT hiring to rise, but only slightly
A new study of more than 1,400 US CIOs found that 11 percent plan to hire additional staff in the fourth quarter of this year, while 3 percent expect cuts.IT workers hit hardest by offshore outsourcing, survey finds
As many as 8 percent of IT workers have been displaced by offshore outsourcing, either through job loss or an involuntary transfer to a new job by their employer, which is twice the rate of workers in other occupations, according to a study based on data collected from some 10,000 people, which may be the largest survey of its kind.How to keep your tech career afloat
Anyone who has worked in IT for more than five minutes knows that the field has been in a dramatic transformation for the past 10 years, invading and conquering other organizational domains such as communications and security, while also wrestling with the new issues that technology has wrought such as employee mobility. In most organizations, IT has had to transform itself from a bunch of techies installing and troubleshooting equipment to a key enabler of business strategy and competitiveness.ICT industry's 2020 vision: 25,000 vacant jobs
The Australian Computer Society (ACS) on Monday released a report indicating that ICT skills shortages will grow to 14,000 jobs by 2010, and will continue to reach 25,000 by 2020 unless government and industry heighten collaboration to ease the skills shortages.IT workers pushed to the limits
Tempers flared inside a San Francisco datacenter on Friday, June 20, igniting the greatest public spectacle pitting a lone tech worker against management, media, and the law. Tension between network admin Terry Childs and his managers had been simmering for years and reached a boiling point on one of the hottest days of the summer.Get tough on telecommuting: 6 questions to ask
Telecommuting is back on workers' radars in a big way these days, thanks to sky-rocketing petrol prices.Study: Six IT fields in top 20 recession-proof professions
Looking to find one of the hottest IT job tracks in today's downward spiraling economy?Repetitive strain injury costing businesses millions
Work-related RSI cases are at an all-time high and the cost to businesses is spiralling, new Microsoft research reveals.School kids turning away from computing subjects
Both young men and women are walking away from secondary school studies that could lead to careers in IT, with young women turning away faster than their male counterparts, according to the Dean of Charles Sturt University's Faculty of Education.
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