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The Challenges of Being a Modern Employee
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The Challenges of Being a Modern Employee

The mass adoption of high-speed communications and advances in hardware and software mean that your office can be wherever anInternet connection and digital device...

Higher Job Performance Linked to People Who are More Honest and Humble
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Higher Job Performance Linked to People Who are More Honest and Humble

A Baylor University study shows that the combination of honesty and humility was a unique predictor of high job performance in a worker, and a better predictor...

What Challenges Face Women in Is Workplace? Answer Depends on Gender
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What Challenges Face Women in Is Workplace? Answer Depends on Gender

Researchers uncovered a serious gender gap in how male and female managers in the information systems field think about the challenges women in the profession face...

Labor Shortage Persists in Some Fields
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Labor Shortage Persists in Some Fields

Despite the still-high unemployment figures around the country, many tech companies are unable to find suitable candidates to fill their new openings. Many companies...

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'rural Sourcing' Offers Way to Keep Jobs at Home

Rural Sourcing Inc. represents a growing trend that is helping to keep information technology jobs in the United States by locating them in smaller cities instead...

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How to Get What You Want at Work

The best way to get what you want at work in terms of a new position or job responsibility is a tactic known as incremental negotiating, whereby you signal your...

Rise in Social Media Jobs Means Opportunity
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Rise in Social Media Jobs Means Opportunity

One bright trend in the 2011 technology jobs market is the sharp increase in the number of social media jobs. According to Indeed.com, three times as many jobs...

Making the Move from It Operations to the Applications Group
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Making the Move from It Operations to the Applications Group

What happens when you are re-assigned from one technology department to another, with a completely different set of expectations and workflow? The transition may...

Linux Skills Are Hot in an Improving IT Hiring Front
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Linux Skills Are Hot in an Improving IT Hiring Front

The hiring environment for information technology professionals last year was the best it's been since 2000, according to a recent Challenger, Gray & Christmas...

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Battle For Tech Geeks: Street vs. Silicon Valley

Wall Street firms are aggressively competing with Silicon Valley for computer programmers and software engineers by offering more laid-back office environments,...

Practical Intelligence Key to Entrepreneurial Success
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Practical Intelligence Key to Entrepreneurial Success

New research shows that practical intelligence, or street sense, may be central to entrepreneurial success.

What the Influx of the Millennial Generation Will Mean For It
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What the Influx of the Millennial Generation Will Mean For It

As the Millennial Generation that began entering the workforce in 2000 starts to assume leadership roles within organizations, it's time to better understand what...

Ten Essential Career Success Strategies
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Ten Essential Career Success Strategies

Career success occurs when your career direction aligns with who you are and what is important to you. To build a successful career, create your personal brand...

The Academic Job Search: How to Prepare Key Documents
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The Academic Job Search: How to Prepare Key Documents

While the academic job search can be grueling, there are key steps you can take to increase your chances of future job success. It's crucial that you prepare key...

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Five New Year's Resolutions for Your Project Management Career

It's time to consider New Year's resolutions that will move you along in your job or career. There are at least five steps you can take to get a better job or keep...

Power to Women in Tech
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Power to Women in Tech

The Bangladesh Women in Technology (BWIT) platform was recently launched with the goal of empowering women with technology and helping them find computing careers...

Best Careers 2011: Computer Software Engineer
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Best Careers 2011: Computer Software Engineer

Computer software engineer is one of the fastest growing careers, with the U.S. Labor Department projecting that employment of such professionals will soar by nearly...

Professors Study the Impact of Career Growth on Organizational Commitment
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Professors Study the Impact of Career Growth on Organizational Commitment

Companies that have made recent wage and professional development cuts may want to start re-investing in their valued employees if they want to keep them according...

Professionalism 'Less than Desired' in Entry-Level Employees
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Professionalism 'Less than Desired' in Entry-Level Employees

Researchers at the Center for Professional Excellence at York College of Pennsylvania continue to find that students aren't making the grade as professionals in...

Finding Talent: ­sing the Web to Hire a Team of Peers
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Finding Talent: ­sing the Web to Hire a Team of Peers

Based on his experience hiring for a startup, Andy McLoughlin, co-founder and EVP Strategy at Huddle, comments on the most effective ways to hire a team of peers...
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