IT Workers Are Happy, But Will Still Leave for Something Better
IT Workers Are Happy, But Will Still Leave for Something Better
Despite overall satisfaction with their current job situation, IT workers still show a readiness to jump ship when the next best thing comes along.
CIO — The majority of IT employees are engaged at work, loyal to their employers and inspired to do their best everyday, according to new survey findings from Randstad Technologies and Technisource. However, despite that, more than half (53 percent) are open to new employment opportunities, Think of it as the IT sector’s version of The Five Year Engagement, a new film about a couple that is happy to be engaged but put marriage plans on an indefinite hold.
"The takeaway for employers is that they use whatever means to create a strong bond with their employees by engaging, recognizing and empowering them in order to minimize attrition," said Bob Dickey, executive vice president of technologies at Randstad U.S.
The latest Randstad Engagement Index findings, conducted in February, surveyed 3,000 IT workers, nationwide. The Randstad Engagement Index measures the attitudes and perceptions impacting employee engagement within companies.
Looking at IT sector’s response to Randstad’s six components of engagement, the survey found the following:
- 76 percent of IT employees are proud to work for their company
- 63 percent of IT employees enjoy going to work every day
- 75 percent of employees feel inspired to do their best each day
- 68 percent of IT employees feel their efforts at work are recognized and valued
- 67 percent indicate they trust their company leadership to make good decisions for the workforce
- 67 percent of employees believe their company shares their values
Not only did the survey indicate that IT employees are clearly satisfied with their jobs and employers but 80 percent feel secure in their jobs, and they’re optimistic about the future:
- More than three-fourths, or 77 percent, believe their company has a great future
- 64 percent believe their company is making the right investments in their workforce for the future
- 60 percent report being only a little or not at all concerned about having to take a pay cut
IT Workers Looking for the Next Best Thing
Despite the rosy relationship with their current job situation, IT respondents still showed a readiness to jump ship when the next best thing comes along. And, survey results indicate that 59 percent of respondents believe that those opportunities are on the horizon as more than half believe that the job market will pick up in 2012.
According to Dickey, opportunities in the IT sector are opening up with increasing pressure to find top talent. In fact, recent job demand in IT is for higher-level positions, such as project mangers, business architects and data analysts.
"What this tells us is that the economy is picking up as more companies start new project initiatives and make investments in infrastructure and development," he said. Dickey noted that improvements in IT job hiring is often a bell weather for overall employment growth.
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Modernization of IT: Solving a Legacy of Business Problems & Applications
Modernization of IT: Solving a Legacy of Business Problems & Applications
Are we building applications or supporting the business?
I talk to a lot of CIOs. I met with one in early May who oversees the IT operation of a $6 billion yearly entertainment-related company with about 7,000 employees. This top-notch exec was all about transforming a huge investment in existing IT infrastructure into a new dynamic, extensible and agile platform that would propel the business forward – not hold it back. This guy is busy figuring out how to keep a Boeing 777 up in the air while simultaneously re-fitting aircraft to make it best-in-class.
That’s what IT should be all about.
But in some organizations, it’s not. Either the message from the top gets lost as it percolates down through the IT organization, or the message from the top isn’t the right one to begin with. Either way, for those unfortunate IT organizations, IT is a ball-and-chain that holds the enterprise back, rather than gives it the capability to move forward.
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IT Contractors Help Companies Meet Changing Work Needs
The demand for tech part-time work can also mean the economy is improving, says an IT staffing firm
Whether companies require specific tech talent for a project or need extra help meeting a business uptick brought by the recovering economy, corporate IT departments depend on the contract workforce.
For CIOs, temporary staff offer the experience required to complete a specific task without the need, and cost, of permanently keeping them on the payroll. IT staffing firms see contractors as helping companies stay flexible and meeting the work peaks and lulls that accompany a recovering economy. In either scenario, contractors have been, and will continue to be, in demand for enterprise IT, according to CIOs and hiring experts.
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Direct-hire Sr VOIP Engineer Opportunity with Great Company in Dallas, TX
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Direct-hire Sr VOIP Engineer Opportunity with Great Company in Dallas, TX
Summary
Our client is seeking an experienced VoIP Engineer excited to work for a growing company which provides Voice Over IP (VoIP), hosted PBX, voicemail and fax solutions. This position will be instrumental in assisting the company to deliver high levels of service availability.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for design implementation, planning and capacity management of the telephony environment. Expertise required on Broadsoft Broadworks and Broadsoft M6 platforms.
- Work together with the Implementation Coordinators, Network Engineers and Field Operations to troubleshoot and resolve persistent problems and escalated tier 2/3 issues.
- Establish operational best practices and standard operating procedures for deployment, support, break-fix, and management (monitoring, inventory, sparing, etc).
- Interact with cross functional teams from Network Engineering, Sales Engineering and Provisioning to review product requirements, functional specifications, and detailed designs.
- Hold vendors & telecom carriers accountable to resolve systemic issues, bugs and abnormally high failure rates.
- Project management of high and low level Telephony /Equipment related tasks.
- Interop testing and network troubleshooting with the telecom carriers (Level3, XO, Paetec, etc).
- Assess utilization trends and make appropriate design and implementation recommendations to scale the architecture.
- Assist in the planning and management of all aspects of Network and Telephony related projects.
- Scale and deploy redundant collocation facilities.
- Provide 24×7 on-call support and escalation to Network and Telephony carriers
Required Qualifications:
- Cisco CCNA / CCDA
- 5+ years experience engineering or supporting large scale production voice networks.
- Understanding of Telephone Company & Carrier procedures, trouble shooting and documentation.
- Deep understanding SIP, SCCP & RTP
- Experience in supporting mission-critical 24×7 Telecom & Network services
- Knowledge of telecom principals and terminology including DID*s Toll Free numbers, LATA OCN and NPA-NXX etc.
- Self-starter with excellent troubleshooting skills and ability to prioritize tasks and organize workflow accordingly
- Ability to grasp new concepts quickly
- Ability to understand the problem and communicate it for others
- Experience with voice protocols SIP/ISDN/SS7/MGCP/T.38
Desired Technology Skills:
- PROTOCOLS *IP/VOIP: TCP/IP protocols suite, SIP/SDP, STUN, H323, MGCP, BGP, HSRP, OSPF, DNS, SIP, RTP
- SECURITY: IPSec, VPN
- LAN, AND WAN: Ethernet/VLAN/ Spanning tree, Frame Relay/ISDN
- Linux or Sun Solaris administration experience with exposure to some of the following: Apache, DNS, Tomcat, MySQL, TimesTen, Java, C++, and PERL
Routing Protocols:
NETWORK ANALYSIS AND EMS: Wireshark/EtheReal
SOFTSWITCHES/GATEWAYS: Session Controllers/Proxies and Media Gateways, ACME, Broadsoft, M6
Network Equipment:
Cisco Routers 26xx, 28xx
Cisco Switches 29xx, 35xx
Polycom SIP Phones
Cisco VoIP Phones
Firewall Platforms (Cisco ASA)
Adtran 908e
Edgewater 4550
Industry Experience:
5+ years routing and switching (mastery level)
5+ years experience with Broadsoft / M6 switch environment
5+ years experience with VoIP including VoIP implementation experience
3+ years experience with SIP implementation
If you have this experience, feel you are a fit for this position, and are interested, please answer the questions below:
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Direct-Hire Sr Voice Network Field Engineer Opportunity in Dallas-Fort Worth
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Direct-hire Sr Voice Network Field Engineer Opportunity with Great Company
Sr Voice Network Field Engineer – Dallas-Fort Worth, TX
Dallas-Fort Worth Area
Travel: up to 50% at times.
Needs to have:
Working experience with Cisco Unified Communications products.
Cisco Call Processing, configuring & troubleshooting
Cisco Unity Voice Mail, configuring & troubleshooting
Active Cisco CCVP (CCNP-Voice) Certification
Would like to have:
Working experience with Cisco UCCX or UCC, configuring & troubleshooting
Working experience with Cisco Telepresence
Working towards or have Cisco CCIE-Voice
Active Cisco CCNP
Additional Responsibilities:
This position will also be responsible for managing, installation and operating our internal network and handling any tickets opened by customers in the hosting environment.
Education:
Bachelor’s degree preferred
Experience:
5-10 years of working experience in the network field
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