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Deb Perelman is a journalist in New York City with a focus on tech and the daily grind. Previously she was a reporter for eWEEK, leading the magazine and Web site's coverage of the issue and trends that affect IT workers. - more about Deb Perelman »
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- Will it be impossible to change jobs this year?
- Career Builder said last week that nearly one-in-five workers plan to change jobs in 2009, a percentage unchanged from the year. The lack of variation surprised me. I would expect that being in the early party of what threatens to be a drawn-out recession would make people feel too conservative...
- Tags: Job, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2009-01-12
- How to be a better techie in 2009
- In 2009, this could be you.... Cure cancer, run that three-minute mile, save the whales... remember when your New Years Resolutions were downright triumphant? These days, they sound a whole lot more sober: "I hope I'll have a job in January," said one reader. "Contract work with no benefits is...
- Tags: Hiring, Information Technology, Professional Development, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Career, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-12-30
- The sweet lure of tomorrow
- Do you feel like this when you get back from a holiday break?Just sending out your holiday cards today? Rushing to get gifts you'll need to distribute in 48 hours? Frantically filing your 2008 expense reports, due last Friday? Don't worry, you're in good company. Because I meant to discuss...
- Tags: Task, Recruitment & Selection, Corporate Communications, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing, Online Communications, Security, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-12-22
- The steep price of good technology
- What was good for the Netflix customer -- a less buggy experience, courtesy of Microsoft's Silverlight -- was bad for the 50 technical specialists laid off when their services were no longer needed. by Deb Perelman
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., Specialist, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-12-10
- Nobody works for a dollar
- Not the executives at Chrysler, Ford and GM and not the CEOs of Apple, Google and Yahoo. Oh, and especially not this writer. by Deb Perelman
- Tags: Stock, Jet, Salary, CEO, Benefits, Stock Options, Investment, Payroll Solutions, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Stock Options & Grants, Finance, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- The most slacking-est time of the year
- Is this what your office looks like from November to January?Statistically speaking, you're not doing any work today -- or so poll after poll out this time of year about "lost productivity hours" and "distracted workers" claims. You probably won't work for the rest of the week,...
- Tags: Workplace, Hour, Aisle, Recruitment & Selection, Marketing Research, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- 'The devil you know' keeps worried workers in place
- So, let's say that you're one of the lucky ones who slip out from under the economic downturn's merciless grip, and you get to keep your job. Aside from keeping your head down and by all means, not audibly cheering your good fortune, what do you do? by Deb Perelman
- Tags: Worker, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Deb Perelman, Job
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Is there a better way to be handed a pink slip?
- Sadly, we're talking about the other kind of pink slip.I know what you're probably thinking: What a ridiculous question. There is no gentle way to hand out pink slip. There is no way to be told that "your services are no longer needed" but "here is the number to our...
- Tags: Pink Slip, Layoff, Salary, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- My Awesome IT Job: Enterprise Architect, IBM
- Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that loves their work. ...
- Tags: Paris, Information Technology, IBM Corp., Strategy, Team Management, Management, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-10-31
- No rest for the weary techie
- Does your workload make you want to do this?The state of the economy, and the job market that it is dragging down with it, may or may not have affected you yet. Your company may be mired in whatever language they use for layoffs, cutbacks, downsizings, rollbacks or "how about...
- Tags: Workload, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-10-24
- My Awesome IT Job: Chief Technology Officer, Attivio
- Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that loves their work. ...
- Tags: Information Technology, Web 2.0, Strategy, Research & Development, Financial Planning, Internet, Management, Business Operations, Finance, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-10-17
- Signs your company might soon go belly-up
- Before a company goes under, just about everybody knows it. And before everybody knows it, a bunch of people are already whispering in the corridors and around the water cooler, certain they see the writing on the wall. But what about you? Can you read the clues sprinkled like breadcrumbs...
- Tags: Job, Recruitment & Selection, Real Estate, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Desperate times, desperate job hunting tactics
- In a recent post about tactics to help land a job in an uncertain economy I included a cartoon of a sorry-looking fellow wearing a "Will work for food" billboard as he paced the sidewalk and said it "hopefully wouldn't come to this". I was just joking, you know. ...
- Tags: Hiring, Job, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- My Awesome IT Job: Director of Rich Media Group at Microsoft
- Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that loves their work. ...
- Tags: Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Rich Media, Strategy, Management, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- How to job hunt during a recession
- A recession doesn't mean that you'll never, ever get a new job, say hiring experts, only that it may take longer and require you to sell yourself differently. Here are some of their tips. by Deb Perelman
- Tags: Job, Network, Recession, Information Technology, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Five unfortunate ways the financial crisis affects your daily grind
- By now, you're probably up to your eyeballs in unsettling economic crisis news. The stock markets, tanked. Mondays $700 billion Hail Mary of a bailout plan, dead on arrival though since resuscitated. Real estate value, sunk. Federal Reserve chairman Bernanke warned last week that the difficulty households and businesses were...
- Tags: Job, Financial, Economist, Worker, Recruitment & Selection, Real Estate, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Wired workers never catch a break
- The once-clear boundary between work and non-work hours has long since begun eroding, and those of you on your PDAs, right now, today, are very much the guinea pigs as to the long term effects. by Deb Perelman
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- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- My Awesome IT Job: Vice President of Security, SuccessFactors
- Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that loves their work. ...
- Tags: Security, QA, SuccessFactors Inc., Information Technology, Strategy, Management, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- The price of a pink slip
- It turns out, it costs less to sack a worker in the U.S. than it does almost anywhere else in the world. Suddenly, relocating Bolivia or Venezuela--places where workers cannot be fired at all--doesn't sound so bad. by Deb Perelman
- Tags: U.S., Worker, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- Ever wish you could fire your IT boss?
- What if it were your boss out here instead of you?Are you tired of having IT managers who don't know diddly about how to do your job or who lack even the most basic technical skills? Are you exhausted from their pie-in-the-sky idea of what a project deadline should be...
- Tags: Job, Boss, Information Technology, Projects, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
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