Deborah Perelman

To add more value to their work, CIOs should stop defining services in technical rather than business terms and should spend less time policing budget priorities, business research firm Gartner advised in a report released April 5. Most CIOs surveyed for the report said they were often stretched too thin between delivering on new enterprise […]

A surprising number of tech professionals are insecure about their business skills, concerned that they don’t have the necessary career skills to make the leap from the cubicle to a corner office, finds a monthly outlook on the IT job market released April 10 by technology careers site Dice. Thirty-five percent of IT professionals responded […]

Despite 70 percent of Indian IT professionals having been promoted in the last 12 months and 42 percent in the last six months, nearly half have been with their employers for less than a year, found a survey released on April 6. Job-hopping is de rigueur, according to the survey, released by CyberMedia Dice, a […]

A commonly heard defense in the arguments that surround U.S. companies that offshore high-tech and engineering jobs is that the U.S. math and science education system is not producing a sufficient number of engineers to fill a corporation’s needs. However, a new study from Duke University calls this argument bunk, stating that there is no […]

Breaking yet another record of H-1B visa depletion, the entire supply of specialized-occupation temporary worker visas for the 2008 fiscal year were exhausted the first day they were available, the USCIS (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services) announced April 3. Each year since 2004, when the cap on H-1B visas was slashed from a record high […]

Not only did the middle class of Silicon Valley weather the toughest times during the dot-com bust, they’ve also had the hardest time recovering, finds a report issued Mar. 29 by Working Partnerships USA, an economic research and public policy group. “The report is a reality check—analyzing the real and urgent problems facing Santa Clara […]

Signifying a confident incoming workforce, 89 percent of prospective graduates said that they expect to receive at least one job offer when they graduate, while 74 percent expect two or more offers, which is 10 percent more than last year, according to a new entry-level job report. The report, published on April 2 by New […]

The yearly rough and tumble for H-1B temporary workers’ visas is in full swing this weekend, as the first day of the filing season is Monday, April 2. The year’s allotment of 65,000 slots is anticipated to be exhausted in record time. The agency that oversees the visa program, the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Service, […]

CIOs spoke highly of their jobs and roles in a survey released by KPMG and Harvey Nash on March 21. Eighty-five percent of CIOs said they found their jobs fulfilling, with 25 percent saying that they were “very” fulfilled and 63 percent saying that they were “quite” fulfilled. More than two-thirds said they were neither […]

The cost advantage of offshoring declined in 2006, found the Global Services Location Index released by A.T. Kearney, a Washington-based global consulting firm. The report found that although the wage advantage of offshoring locations for office services is set to last for another 20 years, it is on the decline as offshore wages for IT, […]

Do you have the IT skills managers covet? According to a study released March 8 by Forrester Research, recruiters are setting their sights on tech pros with project management, security and architecture skills in 2007, as the more routine aspects of network management and application maintenance continue to be outsourced. Forrester surveyed 186 IT decision […]

A woman has been named the honorary of the prestigious A.M. Turing Award, essentially the Nobel Prize of the computing industry, for the first time in its 41-year history. Given by the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), which strives to advance computing as a science and a professions, the award is accompanied by a prize […]