Job Tips and Job News – Projected Increase in Hiring
The Robert Half Professional Employment Report projects a 3% increase in hiring for the third quarter. It’s obviously not tremendous growth, but it is movement in the right direction.
Overall, a net 3% (6% increase, 3% decrease) of surveyed executives said they plan to increase the number of full-time employees in professional occupations in the third quarter.
This is down slightly from the prior quarter’s forecast but continues a trend of hiring outpacing staff reductions. Transportation and business services projected the most growth, while the legal field had the strongest hiring activity projections. New England was the regional leader.
Cross posted from About.com
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Job Tips and Job News – Does working in IT bring its own extra stress factor?
Due to organisational position of the IT department, some IT staff can experience higher stress levels
Recently I watched a TV show “Stress – Portrait of a killer” on Australia’s ABC. It explained, based upon research by Robert Sapolsky and others, that people lower in the corporate hierarchy, in general, have a higher level of stress.
Bashir Mamdani reports in “The social hierarchy of health”
Two different models have replaced the old idea that managers at the top of the hierarchy are under more stress than people below them. The demand control model posits that stress at work is not caused by how much demand there is, but how much control there is in relation to demand. The second model suggests that imbalance between efforts and rewards are the determinant of chronic stress.
This made me think. Since IT in most organizations is a service department and does not have a purpose by itself, would that make IT staff feel to be lower in the ‘hierarchy’. And if so, would that induce more stress with IT staff?
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Job News – Dallas Business Journal – Jobs report optimistic, but falls short
The United States had 3.1 million job openings on the last business day of April 2010, up about 34.8 percent from July of 2009 when job openings hit a trough, the U.S. Department of Labor said Tuesday.
The labor department’s latest report indicates that in July of 2009, the U.S. hit a low point with only 2.3 million job openings. Since then, the workforce has added 740,000 more jobs.
However, the job hire rate and separation rates have remained relatively steady at 3.3 percent and 3.1 percent, respectively, the report said.
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IT Job News – The quest for IT talent
That noise you hear is the scrape of chairs being pushed back, laptops snapping shut and your ICT staff walking out the door. The war for talent is on again — if it ever stopped — and as with all wars, there will be victors, survivors and casualties.
Identifying, retaining and developing talent never gets easier. There are only degrees of difficulty. What should you do to attract and groom good people? How can you make your IT organisation one that offers interesting roles and compelling career prospects? How can you avoid becoming collateral damage in the war?
How much it really costs to replace staff
The market is on the move
Now, even worse news.
Peoplebank is Australia’s largest IT&T recruitment company. It claims a talent pool of more than 300,000 candidates and 3000 contractors on-site, and places 6000 candidates every year.
Peoplebank’s National IT Market Update: April 2010 reveals significant salary increases — the first sign of increased competition among employers for IT skills — are beginning to emerge. It supports anecdotal evidence of shrinking talent pools around the country.
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Information Technology – In praise of unsung IT heroes!
Next time an IT person helps you out, or even listens to your whining without complaint, offer to take that person to lunch. Or, at least, say thank you and really mean it.
Gawd, it’s so easy to be negative, which is why an article praising the efforts of unsung IT heroes caught my attention.
The message is simple, short, and sweet: despite all the project failures, legions of IT workers do a great job every day. They suffer the sins, inexperience, and bad attitudes of non-technical colleagues who act like IT people are their personal servants.
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Job Tips and Job News – Cloud computing momentum: What it means for CIOs and IT departments
Cloud computing has gone from being scoffed at by CIOs to being one of the top two CIO concerns of 2010. TechRepublic and ZDNet recently did a Webcast in which ZDNet Editor in Chief Larry Dignan and I discussed the full range of issues that IT leaders face when considering if and how to implement cloud computing.
Some of specific topics included:
- The different flavors of cloud computing
- Security concerns
- Compliance with the cloud
- Cloud-washing
- Private cloud vs. public cloud
- Bringing legacy code to the cloud
- How the cloud will affect IT jobs
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