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IT Staffing – CIOs Finally Ready to Start Hiring Again

June 11, 2010/0 Comments/in IT Consultant, IT Consulting, IT Department, IT Field, IT Hiring, IT Industry, IT Job Growth, IT Job News, IT Jobs, IT project manager, IT Projects, IT Staffing, IT talent, IT Workers/by admin

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.

Information Technology – IT’s human energy crisis

June 10, 2010/0 Comments/in Information Technology, Information Technology Field, Information Technology Organizations, IT, IT Department, IT Field, IT Job News, IT Staffing, IT talent, Technology/by admin

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.

IT News – How to Build IT-Business Alignment

June 9, 2010/0 Comments/in IT, IT Department, IT Field, IT Industry, IT Professionals, IT Projects, IT talent, IT Workers, Technology/by admin

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!

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

June 9, 2010/0 Comments/in IT Spending, IT Staffing, IT talent, Technical Staffing/by admin

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.

Check it out here

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IT Staffing – Increased IT Hiring on Horizon, Survey Suggests

June 7, 2010/0 Comments/in Information Technology, Information Technology Field, Information Technology Organizations, IT, IT Budgets, IT Hiring, IT Industry, IT Job Growth, IT Job News, IT Professionals, IT Spending, IT Staff, IT Staff Augmentation, IT Staffing, IT talent, IT Workers, Technical Staffing, Technology Budgets, Technology Projects, Uncategorized/by admin

Although companies such as HP may be slashing their workforce, a survey finds the majority of HR heads are planning on making IT hires in the next six months.

Although companies such as HP may be slashing their workforce, a survey finds the majority of HR heads are planning on making IT hires in the next six months.

More than three-quarters (78 percent) of human resources managers or recruiters who have responsibility in recruiting technology positions are looking to hire IT workers in the next six months, according to the 2010 IT Hire Intelligence Survey conducted by Monster.com, an online career and recruitment resource on behalf of technology services provider Technisource. In addition, the majority of survey respondents said they are confident that their company’s performance will improve across the same time period.

Among the key findings, 76 percent of respondents have confidence that their company’s performance will improve in the next six months, while 78 percent of respondents plan to hire IT staff in the next six months. When asked what technology-oriented positions IT hiring managers were looking to fill, applications and infrastructure positions took the lead.

Job Tips and Job News – Forrester’s IT Forum: Business Technology (BT) Will Be Driven By CEO-CIO Partnership

June 7, 2010/0 Comments/in CIO, IT Consultant, IT Consulting, IT Department, IT Hiring, IT Job News, IT Professionals, IT Spending, IT Staff, IT Staff Augmentation, IT Staffing, IT talent, IT Workers, technical recruiting, Technical Staffing, Technology, Technology Budgets, Technology Projects/by admin

Many future chief executive officers (CEOs) will come from the ranks of 21st century business-minded chief information officers, Xerox Chairman and CEO Ursula Burns told more than 1,100 attendees at Forrester’s IT Forum, Forrester’s flagship IT event spanning 12 roles across IT and technology marketing professionals.

Burns was among the senior business leaders — including CIOs from JetBlue, Nike, Sony, and Starbucks — that demonstrated how technology can transform the business.

“For too long, the emphasis in information technology has been on the technology — the latest and the greatest — with all too little attention on the information our businesses need to run more efficiently and effectively,” Burns said. “Forrester has taken the notion one huge step forward — putting the emphasis not on information but on business.”

George F. Colony, Forrester’s chairman and CEO, told the audience that the CEO is essential to the success of business technology (BT). For BT to succeed, according to Colony, the CEO must provide a clear high-level direction for the company, be a catalyst for bringing the business and technology together, and keep business and technology focused on strategic initiatives that drive the business forward. For their part, it is essential that CIOs be proactive, bring best practices and develop a point of view on priorities.

IT Staffing – Increased IT Hiring on Horizon, Survey Suggests

June 3, 2010/0 Comments/in Information Technology, Information Technology Field, Information Technology Organizations, IT, IT Budgets, IT Department, IT Hiring, IT Industry, IT Job Growth, IT Job News, IT Jobs, IT Spending, IT Staff, IT Staff Augmentation, IT Staffing, IT talent, IT Workers, technical recruiting, Technical Staffing, Technology, Technology Budgets, Technology Projects/by admin

Although companies such as HP may be slashing their workforce, a survey finds the majority of HR heads are planning on making IT hires in the next six months.

More than three-quarters (78 percent) of human resources managers or recruiters who have responsibility in recruiting technology positions are looking to hire IT workers in the next six months, according to the 2010 IT Hire Intelligence Survey conducted by Monster.com, an online career and recruitment resource on behalf of technology services provider Technisource. In addition, the majority of survey respondents said they are confident that their company’s performance will improve across the same time period.

Among the key findings, 76 percent of respondents have confidence that their company’s performance will improve in the next six months, while 78 percent of respondents plan to hire IT staff in the next six months. When asked what technology-oriented positions IT hiring managers were looking to fill, applications and infrastructure positions took the lead.