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10 business skills every IT pro must master

admin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:00:00 +0000

Here are the 10 business skills that truly matter to your career in IT. A lot

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Here are the 10 business skills that truly matter to your career in IT. A lot

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Programmer personality types: 13 profiles in code

Jason Snyder — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:00:00 +0000

To the world at large, computers are scary machines that are impossible to understand, and programmers are the mysterious geniuses who know how to manipulate them even if they are never able to fix yours for whatever reason.

Here's how to solve America's developer shortage

Neil McAllister — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0000

If we want to rejuvenate the software development jobs market in the United States, we need to radically rethink how we deliver IT education to American students, to say nothing of how we hire IT workers. The Academy for Software Engineering, due to open its doors in New York City in fall 2012, is a step in the right direction.

Earn more: Today's top IT certs

J. Peter Bruzzese — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0000

I was encouraged last week when reading my colleague Ted Samson's post "IT salaries edge up back to 2008 levels." According to Janco's 2012 IT Salary Survey, that puts the average IT salary at around $78,000 (note that Redmond magazine's survey places it a little higher at $84,000).

12 effective habits of indispensable IT pros

Jason Snyder — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0000

How do you keep your job -- or get a better one -- in an era when hiring is in a freeze and budgets are perpetually squeezed? Follow these 12 maxims and find out.

5 LinkedIn tips for career success in 2012

admin — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:31:51 +0000

When 80 percent of people reportedly don't know how to use LinkedIn properly, a New Year's resolution is born.

The professional social network, which has more than 100 million users worldwide, added a number of new features to its portfolio in 2011. Your challenge: keeping up with LinkedIn to best position yourself professionally this year.

Mobile developers of the world, unite!

Neil McAllister — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0000

There's no shortage of trade organizations for computing professionals, but a new group aims to serve a segment that it claims is underrepresented: mobile app developers.

6 things every IT person should know

Matt Prigge — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0000

Anyone who's been in IT for more than 10 minutes knows that troubleshooting is a huge part of the job. Some item -- it doesn't matter what -- breaks in a new and entirely unexpected way, and by default, it's up to you to get it fixed. It doesn't matter how many books you've read, how well you know the user guide, or what you ate for breakfast. What matters is how quickly you can connect the dots and wiggle your way out of the problem.

Your IT job prospects for 2012

Jason Snyder — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0000

If the past few months are any indication, 2012 should prove a watershed year for the career paths of many IT pros. While positive in aggregate, trending vectors for IT careers appear to be pointing in almost every direction at once.

The tech jobs hiring boom is real -- for these skills

Galen Gruman — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:00:00 +0000

It's not a myth. The technology industry is in the midst of a hiring surge stronger than any we've seen since the days of the dot-com boom. InfoWorld's interviews with economists, technology executives, job seekers, and hiring board managers indicate that employment in the tech sector is up a solid 10 percent this year -- by some bullish estimates, closer to 20 percent.

Stop being your own worst enemy

Matt Prigge — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:00:00 +0000

I've spent a great deal of the past 15 years doing two things: building new server, storage, and network infrastructures -- and fixing them when they fall flat on their face for one reason or another. Over that time, I've seen one common theme emerge: There are very easy, seemingly unimportant things you can do when you build and maintain infrastructure that will save your bacon later when things go pear shaped.

Most of them involve writing stuff down -- you know, documentation.

Want a job? This site reveals if you have a chance

InfoWorld Tech Watch — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:00:00 +0000

Recruiters and hiring managers are just too darn busy these days to read résumés on Monster or to scour professional profiles on LinkedIn to find hot talent. But hey, no problem! Everything they need to know about a prospect's potential can be automatically extracted from his or her Facebook profile and reduced to a numeric rank between 0 and 100.

5 hot tech projects to boost your IT career

Jason Snyder — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:00:00 +0000

Too many projects, too little time: That's the sad lament of many IT professionals who must constantly balance the needs of the enterprise against the desires of business users -- all while keeping a close eye on the newest technologies coming at them from every direction.

Tough tests flunk good programmer job candidates

Neil McAllister — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:00:00 +0000

Even in today's economy, tech companies regularly complain that they can't find enough qualified candidates to fill software development positions. You might expect them to loosen their requirements and provide more training as a result, but actually the opposite seems to be true: Screening procedures are getting tighter. The latest trend is to subject interviewees to elaborate quizzes designed to assess their coding and problem-solving abilities.

'Private' Facebook posts can rightly get you canned

InfoWorld Tech Watch — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:11:35 +0000

Social networking enthusiasts, take note: Not all companies are as easygoing as Google when they catch their employe

The IT job outlook: 5 questions answered

InfoWorld Tech Watch — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:00:00 +0000

IT continues to show signs of recovery, even as the rest of the economy remains in the doldrums. Will the good news continue? And if so, what does that mean for IT jobs?

IT inferno: The nine circles of IT hell

Jason Snyder — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:00:00 +0000

Spend enough time in the tech industry, and you'll eventually find yourself in IT hell -- one not unlike the underworld described by Dante in his "Divine Comedy."

But here, in the data centers, conference rooms, and cubicles, the IT version of this inferno is no allegory. It is a very real test of every IT pro's sanity and soul.

Where IT pros can get peer advice with no vendors allowed

admin — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:26:02 +0000

Wisegate tries to blend the firsthand knowledge of goods and services that Yelp.com provides with the personal vetting that goes on at Match.com and aims it all at IT executives looking for a little help as they plan projects and make purchasing decisions.

Is your IT job worth keeping?

J. Peter Bruzzese — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:00:00 +0000

This past week, I had a chance to interview several former students of mine who have gone from the classroom to the trenches, building meaningful careers in IT over the past decade. Prior to the recent recession, they were working normal hours, spending more time with their family, and taking home worthwhile salaries. Today, they still have their jobs, but their hours have doubled, their salaries have been cut in half, and their families have trouble remembering their names.

7 IT superheroes -- and their fatal flaws

Jason Snyder — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:00:00 +0000

IT superheroes can't fly -- at least, not without an airplane. They don't possess X-ray vision or super strength. They won't be found wearing capes or spandex (at work). But the geeks who save the day time and time again for enterprises around the globe exhibit some extraordinary powers.