Deborah Perelman

IT expected in the field over the next decade brought on by Baby Boomer retirements, professionals who have left the field and declining enrollments in computer science degree programs. At the same time, IT is in the midst of a hiring quandary of crisis proportions, where the people that the field needs the most are […]

Most bosses don’t believe there is a magic pill for keeping their employees content, but their efforts are often off the mark. Ken Hess, a technical analyst at a large global outsourcing company in Tulsa, says his bosses have "no clue." "For your five-year anniversary, you basically get a choice of a pair of small […]

Historically, recruiting has not been a particularly transparent process. Organizations looking to hire put a job description out on a Web board such as Monster, CareerBuilder or Dice, and candidates apply on that limited information alone. The vast majority are rejected without ever knowing why. "In effect, corporations are basically screening people out. Candidates don’t […]

CIOs looking to hire skilled IT professionals will pay, on average, 5.3 percent more in 2008 than they did this year, according to the just-released Robert Half Technology’s 2008 IT Salary Guide. As a comparison, the Consumer Price Index rose 2.8 percent this past year. Click here for a free copy of the Robert Half […]

Countless stories from former technology workers saying they couldn’t get back on their feet after a professional setback or layoff illustrate a lack of resilience in the IT field, experts say. In an anonymous blog entry, a former U.S. technology worker, programmer and system analyst wrote that after more than 20 years of work on […]

Did the golden age of software offshoring end in 2005? Between 1995 and 2005, when the dollar was strong and the post-communist countries were felled by low wages, there was often a 5-to-1 cost advantage borne by outsourcing IT development projects. In 2007, reports of rising wages, high turnover and the fact that foreign software […]

The generation gap has always made its presence felt at the office. The old guard inching toward retirement mixes with the “new kids” fresh out of college and several subsets in between, each walking in with their own sets of beliefs, priorities and approaches to work. But a confluence of factors, most notably an aging […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—Technology is no idle threat to the environment. Despite their seemingly inert appearances, PCs, servers, data centers, cell phones, LANs, WANs, printers, disk storage and IT infrastructure worldwide account for an estimated 2 percent of global CO2 emissions. For all the current talk about the importance of “greening” IT for the common good, little […]

Due only partly to the damage done by the dot-com bust and media hype around outsourcing, there is a widespread conception that IT is not a viable career path. Perpetuated further by well-intended guidance counselors, parents and even IT professionals who do not feel safe sending their technically inclined children down their same career path, […]

What do mainframes and networks have in common? Centralized control, and these command and control structures have long assured IT professionals that the technology game is played on their terms. Yet, in the age of the consumerization of technology, the effectiveness of centralized IT control has slipped. In fact, a report released by the Yankee […]

CIOs need to conduct a reality check as baby boomers head into retirement. True, the fact that a generation of some of IT’s most experienced and knowledgeable professionals will be leaving over the next decade has been discussed for years. Yet, most organizations have done little to prepare for this exodus of talent, especially as […]

Do you know who is reading your e-mail? Has the fact that there is a good chance that your place of work is reading your outbound e-mail, even those that you send from your personal Web mail accounts, changed your behavior? Did you know that more than one-quarter of U.S. companies have fired an employee […]