Posted in Blog, Performance, Motivation, Jobs, Management, Information Technology, Value, leadership, Goals, Career, Career Advancement, Compensation, Talent, Human Capital, Salary, Career Life, Careerhacker on Apr 26th, 2007 No Comments »
Do you ever wonder how other successful career minded professionals schedule and invest their time? Computerworld offers an short yet insightful look into the schedule of a prominent healthcare Chief Information Officer. John Halamka as CIO at both Beth Israel Deconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School has seemingly achieved career success retaining a position […]
Posted in Blog, Education, Performance, Jobs, Information Technology, Value, Career, Compensation, global shortages, Salary, Negotiating, Job Boards, Recruiters Thoughts, Contingent Workforce, Careerhacker on Mar 26th, 2007 1 Comment »
CAREER HACK: If you are in an area where Security Clearance positions are in demand consider applying for these positions and gaining clearance. If you are able to receive Security Clearance it can boost your salary by 25% on average while providing stronger job security.
Would getting a security clearance be better than getting an MBA […]
Second Life is a “3D online digital world imagined, created, and owned by it’s residents.” Simply put it is a ‘website’ where real people can create online alter ego and interact with other people worldwide. As Dawn Rosenberg McKay of About.com writes, “residents of this virtual world, who take on the persona of a self-created […]
First video resumes, now resumes on Google Earth. Interesting. The Google Earth resume shows the locations where the job seeker went to school, where their jobs were/are, where they participate in extracurricular activities, etc. It allows for the viewer to drill down on the locations and get more information about each.
click here to view the […]
Posted in Motivation, Jobs, Information Technology, Statistics, Value, Career, Compensation, Salary, Negotiating, Career Life on Dec 30th, 2006 No Comments »
Most employers “anticipate a less-than-4-percent base pay increase” for the vast majority of their workers in 2007, according to Sibson Consulting. “For someone earning $40,000 a year, a pay hike of 3 to 4 percent works out to as little as $100 per month before taxes, which is not exactly a reason to break out […]
DICE is the largest Information Technology niche recruiting site on the Internet. One of the questions on the DICE 2006 IT Recruiting Trend Survey (sent to IT Hiring Managers) is:
“How are you dealing with the tight tech labor market?”
The checkbox answers provided are:
Increasing social networking activities
Buying more online job board services
Attending more job fairs
Placing more newspaper ads
Offering bigger […]
