Career

The days of building a lifelong IT career at a single company are long gone. And now, the days of building a lifelong IT career just within the IT department are dwindling, too.

The holidays are here again and with them come presents, resolutions and a time to reflect. With that in mind, here's a look back at the most popular career stories and tips of 2012.

Your future success in the IT industry depends on embracing one simple, but hard-to-accept idea: There are no more jobs.

Nearly twice as many CIOs are planning to expand their IT departments in the coming quarter than were three months ago, according to Robert Half Technology.

Few areas of the IT job market have seen the growth and disparity in supply and demand that the data analytics field has experienced. As big data continues to get bigger and the analytics field continues to mature, it's becoming a core part of business and the decision-making process. Competition for top analytic talent is going to be fierce as more companies enter the hiring fray.

There is a strong need for data scientists, developers, analysts and related technologists who can help organizations build and work with analytics-driven tools.

Tech pros are more than the sum of their stereotypes. Here are eight commonly held misperceptions about managing the techie set.

Citigroup is cutting 11,000 jobs, many in IT, as part of a restructuring announced Wednesday.

Despite information technology's ever increasing role in the economy, IT wages remain persistently flat. This may be tech's inconvenient truth.