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Location, Location, Location: Home Field Provides Advantage in Negotiations
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Location, Location, Location: Home Field Provides Advantage in Negotiations

Planning to negotiate a raise? Try not to discuss it with the boss in his or her office, suggests a new study by an organizational behavior expert at Washington...

It Jobs: More Vacancies Than Applicants
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It Jobs: More Vacancies Than Applicants

According to industry body e-Skills UK, the number of advertised IT jobs is now slightly greater than the number of people looking for work in the sector. That...

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Compassion, Not Sanctions, Is Best Response to Workplace Anger

Challenging traditional views of workplace anger, a new article in the journal Human Relations suggests that even intense emotional outbursts can lead to an improved...

Communication Skills More Important Than Technical Know-How For It Jobs, Say It Graduates
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Communication Skills More Important Than Technical Know-How For It Jobs, Say It Graduates

Most IT graduates think technical skills are the least important qualification for IT jobs, according to a survey of students conducted by CA Technologies. Forty...

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Women Working to Expand in Tech Industry

From coders to venture capitalists, women remain a small minority in most tech-related businesses. In fact, of the 20 leading occupations of employed women surveyed...

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Prepare for Talent Wars

As the result of an intensifying war for IT talent, hiring managers and recruiters are watching carefully to make sure their own most valued employees aren't about...

It Professionals Can Have Great Careers at Suppliers
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It Professionals Can Have Great Careers at Suppliers

With thousands IT workers out of work in the UK and recent graduates finding it difficult to get their careers off the ground, the IT services sector is emerging...

Techdom's Talent Poaching Epidemic
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Techdom's Talent Poaching Epidemic

Competition for IT talent is fierce as the economy rebounds, with tech companies  battling over the engineers, designers, computer scientists, and executives who...

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Why Silicon Valley Immigrant Entrepreneurs Are Returning Home

Visa issues are forcing talented immigrant entrepreneurs to return to their home countries rather than stay in Silicon Valley. Instead of creating hundreds of jobs...

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.
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