Category: Jobs in Technology

When an IT Expert Needs a Job

When an IT Expert Needs a Job

An IT person must approach the challenge of finding a new job in a very particular way.  Because your skills are specialized, you are not going to apply to every job that is in the newspaper.  The approach you should take to find good jobs and then how to craft your resume and your strategy [...]

IT Management Means Speaking Two Languages

IT Management Means Speaking Two Languages

Most IT department managers or project leaders grow up out of the IT technical ranks.  That is a good thing.  For one thing, an IT manager must have the ability to talk intelligently with technical experts.  If he or she cannot sustain the respect of a staff of highly trained and talented IT developers, that [...]

How to get a software project done on time.

How to get a software project done on time.

Getting your next software project done on time can be a matter of factoring a whole lot of variables.  Time, resources, features and not forgetting the client’s feature creep.

Now before I get flamed for trying to document “the impossible” or get any more “keep livin’ the dream, buddie” tweets, let’s look at the basics – [...]

What Are the Most Innovative Careers For a Tech Graduate?

What Are the Most Innovative Careers For a Tech Graduate?

What Are the Most Innovative Careers For a Tech Graduate?
 
Some people get out of college, clutching their new diploma, and survey the job field with a finicky air. Sure, sometimes you want to go where the money is, or where there’s the most stability, but for the starry-eyed dreamers amongst us, the principle attraction of [...]

How to Lose Your Tech Job

How to Lose Your Tech Job

 
That’s all right, United States! We weren’t using our economy anyway. We’ll just shut down the global marketplace and go fishing or something until your lot gets it sorted out.
But in the meantime, the IT jobs sector has been awakening each morning in wide-eyed horror. We get up, tiptoe into the office, and check our [...]

Internet Filtering – How It Works, How to Work Around It

Internet Filtering – How It Works, How to Work Around It

 
With Australian Internet users up in arms about the prospect of mandatory Internet filtering by the government, we thought this would be a timely subject. The purpose of this article is to show what Internet filtering is, and also why it isn’t the best solution to the problem of illegal content online. It is not [...]

What Does Barrack Obama’s USA Win Mean For Technology?

What Does Barrack Obama’s USA Win Mean For Technology?

This image summed it up the best. The whole world was watching as the United States threw out their old regime and mandated Barack Obama into office as their 44th president. Never before have we seen so many countries interested in the outcome of one election, and so jubilant at that outcome.
We just can’t stress [...]

Tech Support’s Eight Least-Wanted Callers

Tech Support’s Eight Least-Wanted Callers

 
There’s nothing wrong with calling technical support for whatever product or device you have in front of you. You paid money for it, you expect it to work, you want it fixed. Even the geekiest of gadget geeks dial them up every now and then.
But we’re posting this to remind consumers that there’s a human [...]

If Tech Companies Could Receive Darwin Awards: part 2

If Tech Companies Could Receive Darwin Awards: part 2

To continue our look at technology companies which, if they were people, could have won a Darwin Award, here’s the other five. These aren’t companies that just plain lost the game fair and square, even if they gave it their best shot. These are companies which should have been winners, but did a really great [...]

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