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We the people of the IT profession, in order to form a more perfect union … oh sorry, wrong speech. Actually this isn’t a speech at all, but a written account. It might surprise you to hear that the U.S. State of the Union Address...

Last week, I was with 200-some managing partners of public accounting firms at Winning is Everything in Las Vegas, USA. At the same time, Thomas Friedman was with top government, finance and economic officials (plus a bunch of really rich and/or famous people) at the...

Losing a friend at work to a layoff can be stressful, but you'll need to deal with the situation. You probably have a co-worker or two you're close with, who you grab to rehash the latest episodes of a favorite television show, or for company on...

How do recruiters find you? Primarily through your online presence. Here are some tips from a recruiter for making yourself more visible on the Web. Kelly Dingee, a recruiter, posted an article on fistfuloftalent.com that offers great suggestions for getting yourself out there to recruiters...

Competition in today's job market is stiff, which is why positioning yourself as the strongest candidate is imperative in landing the interview - and the job. Candidates must maximize their marketability and implement strong positioning at the start of the job search and carry it...

MADISON, Wis.--Gentel Biosciences announces the promotion of G. Randall Durnell, Ph.D., to Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer and the hiring of Dan Clutter, Ph.D., as Vice President of Commercial Development. Dr. Durnell has been with Gentel for over a year where he served...

If there’s a fundamental mistake made by CIOs in dealing with CFOs it’s going into meetings talking CIO talk—clouds, SaaS, virtualization—and not getting that the CFO may not understand and, critically, may not care at all. A CFO’s primarily workplace deliverable is not staying on...

John Senne is one of the lucky ones. He got the news that his team at Torex, a global point-of-sale systems provider based in Chicago, was being eliminated in mid-January. Senne, who supported the sales group by building demos of POS systems for potential new...

IT professionals saw their average annual salaries increase 4.6 percent in 2008, but concerns about keeping IT skills up-to-date and job security remain top priorities heading into 2009, according to a new Dice survey released this week. The 2008-09 Annual Salary Survey, which Dice released Jan....