Technology

Follow Federal Stimulus Money to Construction and Engineering Jobs

By John Hazard ⋅ October 23, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Two-hundred fifty million dollars to Northgate Constructors, in Irving, Texas; $189 million to Kiewet Pacific Co., in Santa Fe Springs, Calif; $80 million to Richard E. Pierson Construction, in Camden, N.J.
That’s just some of the money going to local contractors under the federal highway stimulus program, and those are just some of the companies that [...]

Want Less Stress? Consider These Jobs

By Donald Sears ⋅ October 15, 2009 ⋅ One comment

The latest CNN Money ranking of the “50 Best Jobs in America” has garnered a sub-ranking list of low-stress jobs. The question, however, is whether a stressful job in the eye of the beholder. Some readers think so.
The following 10 jobs were ranked as low stress by workers in their respective fields (from 10 to [...]

Google Sees Itself as a Leading Economic Indicator And Is Hiring

By Donald Sears ⋅ October 13, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Google executives are starting to see the signs of an economic recovery and have decided to begin hiring again, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told reporters last week during a companywide sales meeting in New York.
“We’re increasing our investment and hiring rate in anticipation of a recovery,” he told the New York Times’ Steve Lohr.
It was [...]

Healthcare and Technology Dominate Top Jobs of 2009

By Donald Sears ⋅ October 12, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Healthcare and Technology jobs dominate the latest CNNMoney/Payscale.com ranking of the “Best 50 Jobs in America.”
Fourteen of the top 50 jobs in America fall into the health care category, including physician assistant (2), nurse practitioner (7), anesthesiologist (11) and pharmacist (13). Ten of the top 50 and technology jobs including systems engineer (1), IT project [...]

Dell to Close Winston-Salem Plant, Cut 900 Jobs

By John Hazard ⋅ October 7, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

Computer maker Dell plans to close it’s Winston-Salem plant and lay off 905 employees, the company announced yesterday.
The 750,000-square-foot, four-year-old plant was Dell’s “most modern and efficient plant,” according to the Winston-Salem Journal. But Dell has been saying for years that laptop production can be done more economically overseas and analysts consider the plant’s closure [...]

Recruiters Struggle to Find Accounting, Health Care and Software Sales Pros

By Donald Sears ⋅ October 6, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Amid record unemployment and negative job growth, a few well-paying fields are struggling to find enough experienced candidates to fill open positions, recruiters told the Associate Press.
They’ve turned to less-experience candidates who can train on the job and earn certifications after they’re hired to fill open positions in accounting, actuarial roles, data analysis, health care [...]

How to Position a Post-Recession Technology Career

By Donald Sears ⋅ October 5, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

U.S.-based programmers and software engineers need to add project-analysis, project-management and team-leadership skills to their resumes to remain competitive in the future, said Adam Lawrence, a recruiter and vice president at Yoh, an IT staffing agency.
Offshoring is an inevitable trend, said Lawrence in an article he wrote for Computerworld. U.S. technology workers must adapt to [...]

ITT Relocation Packages Lure Hires to “Less-Glamorous Locations”

By Donald Sears ⋅ September 30, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

High-tech engineering and manufacturer ITT’s Defense Electronics and Services is offering new hires “generous relocation packages” to move to “less glamorous locations,” like Omaha, Neb., and Huntsville. Ala., reports BNET.
ITT, based in White Plains, N.Y., has more than 40,000 employees and has been hiring steadily in 2009, since its security and defense business was awarded [...]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: Show Me Your Past Success

By John Hazard ⋅ May 21, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Steve Ballmer, the CEO of Microsoft, wants to know what you have accomplished in your career.
“The best predictor of future success is past success,” Ballmer told the New York Sunday Times for the Sunday Business section’s May 17 “Corner Office” Q&A. “It’s not 100 percent, but it’s a reasonable predictor.”
To get the data, he said [...]

Resume Metrics: Make It Count

By John Hazard ⋅ April 28, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

“Bill” was the “No. 1 sales performer in U.S. for two years” when he worked at Verizon Wireless. Sounds pretty good, but it probably means nothing to a hiring manager, said Ken Moore, a certified professional resume writer who works with TheLadders and the man who excised that line from Bill’s resume.
There was “no qualification [...]

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