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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...

Human Computation and Crowdsourcing
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Human Computation and Crowdsourcing

New approaches to crowdsourcing on the Internet are making it possible for computers to use human capabilities to solve problems, making it possible for them to...

Computer Science Prof Do-Si-Do-Ing with Robots
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Computer Science Prof Do-Si-Do-Ing with Robots

Robots will compete in a hoedown and rodeo at the 42nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) as part of a professor's and tech expert's...

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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...

Technology Helps Female Researchers More Than Males, Study Finds
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Technology Helps Female Researchers More Than Males, Study Finds

Access to information technology benefits female research scientists more than their male counterparts, increasing research productivity and collaboration, according...

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,...

Software Engineer Is the Best Job of 2011
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Software Engineer Is the Best Job of 2011

Despite enduring an industry bubble and the threat of outsourcing, Software Engineer ranks as the Best Job of 2011.

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...
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