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Tag: hiring trends
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9 Qualities of Successful Employees
The most carefully crafted digital workplace will collapse under its own weight without the most important element: The right workforce. But hiring talent is at best tedious and at worst a colossal waste of time, money and effort.
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Glassdoor Targets Online Job Seekers With Splashy Redesign
Glassdoor launched a revamped job experience on its site today, with the goal of greater transparency for those looking to replace their soul-crushing jobs with more fulfilling offers.
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Discussion Point: How Can You Solve Your IT Talent Gap?
Consider it a classic Catch-22: Your company has plenty of open IT positions to fill, and too few qualified candidates to fill them. Now what do you do? By all accounts, 2015 will be a spectacular year for IT workers as the unemployment rate continues to plummet, salaries increase and
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What You Need to Know About Tech Jobs and What They Pay
There are 6,513,236 tech industry jobs in the US, provided by some 452,303 companies. The tech industry's payroll is a nice $654 billion, with the average wage clocking in at $100,355, compared to a $49,611 average private sector wage overall.
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Companies Desperately Seeking IT Talent
It would be a simple matter, it would seem, to hire a senior developer with Microsoft Dynamics skills. Yet, Kelly Bedrich, the director of IT for the non-profit firm APQC (the American Productivity and Quality Center), has been having difficulties filing the position. He has his theories.
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Do You Really Need a College Degree to Work in IT?
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is known for her insistence on hiring employees with stellar college credentials. She even reportedly turned down actress Gwyneth Paltrow for an editing job with Yahoo for that reason, according to The New York Times. Paltrow is also the author of cookbooks and head of
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How to Make Boomers, Millennials and Everyone Else Get Along
There are a lot of stereotypes about today's workplaces, including the unsubstantiated notion that you have to be in your 20s to understand today's technologies. But all those misperceptions are taking their toll. All is not well in today’s multi-generational workplace.
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Are You Too Old to Work in Tech? IT's Midlife Crisis
IT has the reputation of being a young person's game. Average tech workers are portrayed in media and industry lore as 20-somethings who spent their youth tinkering with code and playing video games.
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