Deborah Rothberg

Starting salaries for IT pros are expected to increase an average of 2.8 percent in 2007 over 2006, and more than 4 percent in high-demand areas, according to the 2007 IT Salary Guide from Robert Half Technology, to be released Oct. 24. Larger increases in base compensation are expected in roles in higher demand such […]

In a survey of IT security professionals attending the RSA Conference, one-third of respondents cited uncovering identity management as their biggest organizational concern. While 29 percent of respondents ranked e-mail viruses as their most significant threat, 68 percent listed Web viruses, suggesting that Web viruses pose more of a threat than e-mail-born ones. Paul Davis, […]

Hourly wages for skilled tech workers in the third quarter of 2006 improved over the year before, according to the Yoh Index of Technology wages released Oct. 11 by the Philadelphia-based talent management company. Wages increased .1 percent in July, 1.4 percent in August and finally 2.4 percent in September. The Index ended the third […]

The career path of IT managers often sputters and stalls in small enterprises, according to research released October 10 by the Info-Tech Research Group’s Indaba division, a London, Ontario-based provider of IT research and advice. IT managers who focus their occupation on companies with 200 or more employees are more likely to find a career […]

Amid widespread reports of slowed job growth and the looming possibility of an unemployment rate about to swell, IT worker confidence rebounded in September, according to the New York-based Hudson Employment Index’s report, released Oct. 4. Worker confidence among IT professionals nearly recovered in September, according to the release, as Hudson’s IT index increased 6.2 […]

In the years before the tech bubble burst, IT was king: there was a huge demand for professionals with technical prowess and an overwhelming shortage of able bodies. Techies could pick their job and name their salary. They could wear jeans and t-shirts to meetings and nobody would raise an eyebrow. They could roll their […]

In numbers that haven’t been matched since 2001, the U.S. tech industry added 140,000 jobs in the first half of 2006, according to a report released Sept. 26 by the Washington, D.C.-based AeA (formerly the American Electronics Association). Though nearly double the 78,900 added in the first half of 2005, the tech industry growth rate […]

It’s not news that business and IT departments within a company don’t always get along. It’s rare to find a geek or a suit out there that can’t list off one or several examples of their earnest work being thwarted by “those other guys.” Yet, most people will tell you there is more to the […]

You might want to sit down for this one. According to a survey released Sept. 20 by the New York-based Hudson Index, many bosses don’t have a clue about how their employees feel about their managerial skills. According to the results, 92 percent of managers consider themselves to be good or excellent bosses, but only […]

Thirteen percent of CIOs plan to increase their IT staff in the fourth quarter of 2006, according to a survey released Sept. 20 by Robert Half Technology, a provider of IT professional services. Three percent of CIOs anticipate cutbacks, giving a net 10 percent hiring increase in Q4, as forecast in Q3, but up 2 […]

Knowing a handful of programming languages is seen by many as a harbor in a job market storm, solid skills that will be marketable as long as the languages are. Yet, there is beauty in numbers. While there may be developers who have had riches heaped on them by knowing the right programming language at […]

A few years ago, when tech jobs were sparse, nobody had the balderdash to speak of leaving their current jobs to pursue brighter opportunities. To have an IT job at all seemed like a gift, one not to be treated carelessly. Yet, by most accounts, the market has changed for the better and in the […]