IT Staffing – CIOs Finally Ready to Start Hiring Again

After years of penny pinching and putting off key software and hardware implementations, IT executives now say they’re ready to start hiring again.

It was the worst of times these past three, four years and IT workers suffered as much as more as most. While companies across all industries were busy pink-slipping millions of workers, shuttering facilities and abandoning all non-essentially IT projects, it was the networking, software and security specialists who were out of work and largely out of luck.

But as CIO Update found, those days appear to be over as the vast majority of some 1,400 CIOs surveyed say they’re adding headcount and are feeling far more optimistic about their company’s future than they have in years.

According to survey by headhunter Robert Half International, 64 percent of CIOs blamed understaffing in their company’s IT department for impairing their ability to implement innovative or emerging technologies.

To turn things around and build out computing environments in the cloud or to update ancient installed hardware and software platforms, CIOs will have to not only begin hiring more networking and cloud-computing specialists, but pay them handsomely to keep competitors from luring them away.

It’s not the exactly 1999 again, but CIOs are starting to see some blue sky on the horizon and that means good things for IT workers across the board.

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IT Security – Gartner: IT security spending to remain steady, but not a top CIO priority

A top research firm predicts that IT security spending will remain steady through 2011 with identity management as the top focus, but also suggests that CIOs still don’t rank security projects among their high-priority initiatives.

Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner Inc. will announce Thursday that during the next 12 months, it expects that enterprises will spend approximately 5% of their total IT budgets on information security technology. While that percentage is down slightly from 6% last year, Gartner forecasts that overall IT budgets will increase by nearly 2%, meaning security spending will largely hold its ground.

My concern is this treading water… spending the same amount as last year, and hoping they attack someone else.
Mark Kadrich
President and CEO, The Security Consortium

Gartner this week is previewing its latest security spending data — compiled via a host of recent research efforts — in advance of its Security and Risk Management Summit, which takes place near Washington D.C. June 21-23.

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Information Technology – IT’s human energy crisis

An essential question for all IT leaders to ponder is whether their IT organization is exothermic — one that releases positive energy) or endothermic — one that sucks energy out of the enterprise)

Word association time: When I say "IT energy," what do you think of? After everything that’s been written in the past couple of years about green IT and the amount of electricity that’s needed to power data centers, you probably think first about the cost of our profligate energy consumption.

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Job Tips and Job News – 5 Ways to Shine in Your Next Interview

By Beth Braccio Hering, CareerBuilder Writer

In a tough job market, landing an interview is a major accomplishment. When such opportunity knocks, be ready to show why you’re the candidate to hire. Here are five tips that can help job seekers make a great impression.

Do your homework

Erika Milonas, director of campus recruitment for The McTigue Financial Group (part of Northwestern Mutual) in Chicago reviews more than 1,000 résumés a year and interviews about 400 candidates to choose 40 for the company’s internship program. With such competition, it would seem that interviewees would be incredibly prepared, but that isn’t always the case.

Milonas finds some candidates unable to answer the simple question, "What do you know about The McTigue Financial Group and Northwestern Mutual?" She calls failure to be able to discuss the company at this basic level a "deal breaker," regardless of how the rest of the interview went.

Since most businesses have websites, learning about a potential employer is relatively easy. Find out what the company does and its main products/services, and be familiar with recent developments in the industry.

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Information Security – Some words about Information Security

Contributed By:
Jorge Mieres

Organizations are increasingly dependent on their computer networks and a problem affecting them, no matter how small, can compromise the continuity of operations, a situation which inevitably results in economic loss.

An increasing number and complexity of new computer attacks, becoming more specialized skills whose goals are an economic nature for the benefit of the attackers also in the midst of this variety, have been increasing disrespectful actions of privacy.

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IT News – How to Build IT-Business Alignment

The first practical guide to building IT-business alignment.

Year after year, IT survey results inevitably state that one of the top priorities for the coming year will be to align IT with the business. It is as if alignment is some unattainable and mysterious process and IT leaders prefer to avoid it in fear of failure – or perhaps in fear of receiving more work as a result. The topic certainly gets a lot of attention and is often the source of many articles – such as this one, as well as presentations at IT conferences. After requisite googling task, I found 3,300,000 results on the topic!

To make this article standout and ascend above the rest of the chatter, I will describe what alignment is and precisely how to build it for your organization. That’s right, the first practical guide to achieving in your business!

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Perm JD Edwards Enterprise One Senior CNC Administrator – Richmond, VA

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Perm JD Edwards Enterprise One Senior CNC Administrator – Richmond, VA

Create medical supply solutions so well thought out, they give our customers time to focus on what matters – their patients.

At this client company, you have the power to integrate customized supply management solutions that enable healthcare professionals to deliver exceptional care. Solutions that optimize supply purchasing and materials management. Giving doctors more time to manage lives, instead of supplies. Join our supportive, collaborative team and make a real difference in your future. That’s the power to build your future.

Position Description

Responsible for translating he client’s business requirements into specific systems, applications or process designs for very large complex IT solutions and integrating architecture.  Acts as an advocate for the client, as the ultimate authority on the architecture designed to address client business problems.  Provides direction for design activities.

Design, install, configure, modify, develop, upgrade, administer, tune and troubleshoot all aspects of MMS’s E1 (EnterpriseOne) ERP System, (one of the largest, most extensively enhanced JD Edwards systems in the world), particularly the complex and proprietary Configurable Network Computing (CNC) middleware layer.

Execute daily tasks around CNC including object package builds and deployments, server installs, and middleware maintenance.   Design new installs, application and middleware upgrades, and the porting of customized code to new releases; then guide the other technical resources implementing the foregoing.    Manage performance of E-1components through proactive tuning and  troubleshooting.    Determine which electronic software updates (ESU) to take to keep system stable and in vendor support range.   Decide how to adjust periodically all system wide settings and parameters to insure reliability of E1.    Maintain close working relationship with Oracle’s JDE support staff and find fixes to issues and best practices at the JDE users web site.    Coordinate CNC work both orally and in writing, with a wide range of staff, from senior IT management to junior developers.

Minimum Requirements

· 8+ years experience in software engineering and/or software architecture.

· Seven years as CNC Administrator of E1 system, at least four in a most senior capacity CNC person.

· Business analyst level understanding of a wide range of processes, particularly order entry, purchasing, inventory and warehousing.

Additional Knowledge & Skills

· Installation, setup and configuration of JDE environments, pathcodes, subsystems, Object Management Workbench (OMW) for project promotions, package builds and deployments, Object Configuration Management (OCM) Mappings, and Security Server.

· Fluent user of JDE OneWorld Development Tool Set, able to build and modify master business functions, and program in C++.

· Hands on experience with logical server installation, configuration, and security workbench.

· Expert knowledge of multiple foundations, OMW Transfer rules, roles, subsystems, and E-1 application servers. Can build development utilities and do joint troubleshooting with application developers.

Education

A four year degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or physical sciences or equivalent of relevant work experience.

Client offers a competitive compensation and benefits package. Our client is everywhere in healthcare. They offer a wealth of opportunity for individuals with a desire to make a difference in providing industry-leading, integrated healthcare services and solutions. Individuals with the passion to be a part of our entire continuum of patient-focused care. As an equal opportunity employer, our client unites the talents and contributions of all to advance the power of healthcare.

If you have this experience, feel you are a fit for this position, and are interested, please answer the questions below:

1) Do you have an updated Word copy of your resume?

2) What is your availability to start?

3) Are you open to direct-hire?

4) What is your current salary or pay rate?

5) Are you currently eligible to work for any employer in the US?

6) When is the best time to contact you and what # can you be reached at for this opportunity?

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Job Tips and Job News – Computerworld’s Smart Salary Tool 2010

Is your salary on par with what your peers are making? Use our Smart Salary Tool to compare your pay with IT workers in similar jobs from across the U.S. Our 2010 survey reports on salaries from nearly 6,000 IT professionals.

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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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