ITworld Career

Why a good review won't save your job

Melissa Shaw — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 16:41:19 +0000

Inside lay-off list red flags

How good elevator manners can help your career

Melissa Shaw — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 16:09:07 +0000

Avoid these two elevator etiquette missteps

Ridiculous details to leave off your resume

Melissa Shaw — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 19:22:21 +0000

Crazy, irrelevant details found on actual resumes

Got a job interview? Don't wear a suit

Melissa Shaw — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 18:37:30 +0000

How dressing up can hurt your chances for getting the job

IT Resume Makeover: Corporate IT to IT consulting and back

IDGNS staff — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 15:48:11 +0000

In our ongoing series, career coach and strategist Donald Burns shows technology executives how to better transition from IT consulting back to corporate IT as he works with a client who's feet are planted firmly in both worlds.

12 best places to land a tech job

kgerich — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 19:47:00 +0000

Good news! You may not need to uproot to find a new opportunity.

Facebook's Sandberg takes on the tech gender gap

IDGNS staff — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 18:57:47 +0000

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said today that women need to stick together, support each other and be willing to talk about gender to bolster the number of women in the tech industry.

Revenge of the nerds: 11 titans of technology who tackled sports

kgerich — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 17:59:00 +0000

These geeks got rich and then bought their way into sports, but, unlike in tech, they didn’t all hit it out of the park

How to close the big data skills gap by training your IT staff

IDGNS staff — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 16:29:47 +0000

Research firms paint a dire picture of a massive big data skills gap that will get worse over time. But companies like Persado, which uses big data to help marketers optimize their messages, are finding success training their existing staff in the new big data technologies.

Who's training the next generation of data scientists?

IDGNS staff — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 15:54:00 +0000

A projected shortage of qualified data scientists could leave U.S. businesses unable to tap the value of big data. To help meet that demand, the University of California at Berkeley has developed a master's degree program to train new data scientists.

Why blending Facebook and LinkedIn is a good career move

Melissa Shaw — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 14:39:40 +0000

How Facebook’s Graph Search is changing the rules of social networking and job hunting

Press 3 to kill your enterprise voicemail system (and why you should)

Melissa Shaw — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 13:57:58 +0000

How voicemail is sapping productivity and ticking off your customers

5 ways to enhance your email efficiency

Eric Bloom — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 00:08:26 +0000

I’m a project manager and it seems that I spend more time reading and writing emails than managing my project. Any ideas? This email volume is killing me and my project.

Workforce-as-a-service scales to meet IT staffing needs on demand

IDGNS staff — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 20:37:58 +0000

What if you could scale your IT personnel requirements as you would computing resources? Using a workforce-as-a-service model lets you add a skilled, vetted and insured workforce when you need it and release it when you don't.

5 millennials-in-the-workplace myths busted

IDGNS staff — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 19:36:57 +0000

Forget what you think you know about Generation Y. A recent survey dispels many of the myths surrounding millennials and the digital culture. Turns out age may be nothing but a number.