Deborah Perelman

IT professionals with SAP skills have seen their salaries mount and demand soar for two years. Salaries for SAP specializations increased 15.2 percent in 2006, according to research released in February by Foote Partners, a New Canaan, Conn., IT workforce research firm. Data from the first two quarters of 2007 suggests little abatement of this […]

By multiple accounts, the IT job market is at its healthiest point since the dot-com bust some six years ago. Nearly 16 percent of CIOs said they intended to hire IT professionals during the first quarter of 2007, found a survey by Robert Half Technology released March 6, and a follow-up second-quarter survey found a […]

Though tales of ever-expanding compensation packages for executives and claims that companies have shifted their focus from hiring to retention continue to fill business news coverage, a study suggests that this has had little effect on the contentment of C-level employees. Executive job satisfaction levels are surprisingly low as companies struggle to keep their management […]

What does it take for a country to support a thriving IT sector? The United Sates, Japan, South Korea and the UK have all done a good job of figuring it out. These countries stood out among the 64 nations reviewed in the IT Competitiveness Index, a benchmarking report conducted by the EIU (Economist Intelligence […]

What will be the next big offshoring frontier? While the experts don’t all have the same locations in mind, they all agree that it will no longer be in India. Salary inflation is largely to blame for the change in course. When the outsourcing boom took off in 2004, the salaries of software engineers were […]

Reservations about finances, hiring and job security mounted in June, driving IT worker confidence to its lowest point in four months, according to the latest poll on the subject. Twenty-five percent of IT workers are worried about job security and a mere 52 percent said their finances were in good shape, found the Hudson Employment […]

As difficult as it’s proving for companies to fill their high-tech ranks, it turns out that high-level executives are just as difficult to retain. Rather than seeking greener pastures (as in cash), however, it seems that executives are hoping that the grass is more fulfilling on the other side of the corporate firewall. “Money simply […]

It may come as a surprise to many executives, but workers aren’t leaving their jobs just because they are not happy with their pay, according to the experts. Unless the gap between what an individual is making and the market valuation of their role is particularly wide, a higher salary might be the perk that […]

The U.S. Senate voted June 28 against advancing a controversial immigration reform bill, effectively killing the closely watched legislation and dashing the hopes of IT employers who’d hoped for an increase in the number of H-1B work visas this year. The bill, which President Bush called his top domestic priority for 2007, was effectively blocked […]

It has long been recognized that immigrants with technology and engineering skills have played a critical role in the emergence of some of the best-known U.S. entrepreneurial companies. Less is known about the educational backgrounds of these immigrations and what drove them to leave their homes. A report released June 11 by the Ewing Marion […]

Business managers in the United Kingdom lose 31 working days—more than 10 percent of the year—putting out fires that result from bad management of IT systems, according to a study released June 4 by Partners in IT, a U.K.-based service management company. Nearly three-quarters (74 percent) of non-IT business managers surveyed said they spent, on […]

Could women be the answer to IT’s dwindling work force? Penn State researchers argue the fairer sex is under-represented in the industry, and taking steps to increase their numbers would serve to swell the ranks of the overall work force and promote diversity. See also: Women IT Leaders: One Step Forward, One Step Back While […]