Most job applicants have a general checklist before a job interview — updating their résumé, ironing a professional outfit, rehearsing an explanation for those two years spent bumming around after college. However, if tidying up the Facebook profile isn’t on that list, maybe it should...
Large U.S.-based technology companies and Indian IT outsourcing firms are paying close attention to proposed legislation aimed at tightening restrictions on and increasing oversight of the non-immigrant professional visas they use to place foreign professionals in roles stateside. But while the H-1B and L-1 Visa...
Job-seeking in this 21st century recession may just have gone viral and mobile. Since the start of the recession in December 2007, about 6.7 million workers have been laid off according to latest statistics -- at a time the popularity of social networking sites such as...
Shifting jobs or entire careers is very risky business. Before you run off to join the circus (so to speak), serious evaluation must be made before years of hard work toward mastery in a particular field are cast aside for the allure of something completely...
Things are tough out there, but IT recruiters report that there's still a market for the right skillsets. According to Tom Silver, senior vice president for IT employment firm Dice.com, Dice is seeing lots of demand from hiring managers in the following nine categories. Read full...
CHICAGO – A resume alone will not get you a job. It’s not a brochure that can speak for you. It may not even open any doors. Most employers use resumes to eliminate candidates for a job. You may be eliminated from the process without...
An effective contact strategy takes research, initiative and accuracy, which are all important ingredients of a successful job search. There are two components to an effective contact strategy: assembling your contact list and working that list, writes James E. Challenger. ...
To identify the top 10 highest-paid executives in charge of IT, CIO.com combed through the proxy statements filed by Fortune 55 companies with the SEC. Proxy statements, which are distributed yearly to shareholders when their votes are needed to elect new board members or to...
For candidates seeking employment at a job fair, an initial interview with a company may last only five minutes. While a job seeker has to be qualified in order to get the job, there will always be several other people who are equally qualified as...
IT workers have their choice of many great U.S. cities for work and play (Atlanta, Chicago, Seattle), but what are the cities that you probably should avoid? Here's a very unscientific, highly subjective and unapologetically snarky list of our least favorite U.S. tech job locales. Read...