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The IT career builder's toolkit: Breaking into IT

For newly minted computer scientists trying to break into a less-than-exuberant market, landing that first IT job can be an extremely frustrating experience. This free, downloadable sample chapter, excerpted from Cisco Press' The IT Career Builder's Toolkit, analyzes the age-old "you need experience to get experience" dilemma that often plagues...

Tags: Information Technology, Cisco Systems Inc., IT Career Builder, Professional Development, Strategy, Career, Management

Book chapters 2005-03-01

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Not your father's tech school

Tech schools are more important than universities now.The entire economic system has been changed so much that a university education is almost pointless. A person seeking a "job" would usually be far better off with an 18 month targeted investment in a particular skill. And we all know...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, BS Degree, CTE, job

Discussion threads 2009-09-09

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

VMware enlists Cisco to help supercharge virtualization

Now that virtualization has evolved into a proven data center solution, attention is turning to how to optimize it to improve performance and make it scalable to thousands of systems. In partnership with VMware, Cisco wants to play a major role in taking virtualization to the next level, and on...

Tags: Data Center, VMware Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Virtualization, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2008-09-17

Job Finder 1.5 (Windows)

Search jobs from all the major job sites including Career Builder, Monster, Dice, Hot Jobs. Enter your search term and choose your options to narrow down your search result. Set notifications to alert you, or send you an e-mail when new jobs meeting your criteria appear on job sites. Fast...

Tags: Job, Microsoft Windows, Motion Technologies, Job Site, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Software downloads 2008-07-31

Google+pokes+Microsoft+in+the+eye+and+offers+Yahoo+a+helping+hand

Google+pokes+Microsoft+in+the+eye+and+offers+Yahoo+a+helping+hand"The obvious result of a tie-up..."...would mean a stronger competitor for Google on the search and ads front, but something I never thought about was the combination of MSN/Yahoo! Instant Messenger and Hotmail/Yahoo! Mail. The thought of these services together could be enough to delay the deal."Or MicroYahoo can do...

Tags: E-mail providers, Linux, Operating systems, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., e-mail, Microsoft Corp., Google Gmail

Discussion threads 2008-02-04

Brief: 4

This is the fourth excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The Board Member's IT Brief. From chapter 2 "Evaluating IT Proposals 2.1 Processes and ground rules Three kinds of IT proposals come to the board for...

Tags: Project, Information Technology, Board, Benefit, Bottom Line, Decision, Proposal, Corporate Governance, Strategy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-02-01

IT skills shortage costing Europe 'billions'

IT skills shortage costing Europe 'billions'EU IT shortfall?I wonder if they have experiencing the same "shortage" that the US is experiencing. "Shortage" in the US means a shortage of IT people willing to work for cheap. There are LOTS of qualified IT people in the US. Some...

Tags: Development tools, IT Skills Shortage, information technology, outsourcing, programmer, professional programmer

Discussion threads 2007-09-12

Business context search, a researcher's dream come true

Ive been experimenting with search on a new level -- business ecology networking. And its proven an IT researchers dream.ZoomInfo has taken a new slice on search by giving its users not only a resume-like definition of individuals -- it gives a powerful definition of the bucket or buckets that...

Tags: Podcasts, search, ZoomInfo

Blog posts 2006-12-01

WordPal Vocabulary Builder (Mobile)

Have you ever noticed that you're more likely to remember how to get somewhere if you drive, rather than ride along as a passenger? The same principle applies to learning vocabulary words. So instead of passively reading vocabulary definitions, engage your mind and quiz yourself. With six types of quizzes...

Tags: Mobile, Word, MindPal LLC, MindPals WordPal Vocabulary Builder Program, Tools & Techniques, Professional Development, Pocket PC, Management, Career, Handhelds, Hardware

Software downloads 2006-03-21

Desktop Linux thinks small

Desktop Linux thinks smallAnd so it startsI have been proactive in moving a couple of small business's over from Win95 / 98 to SuSE Linux installs, and they love it! Cost is my time wages to pay me for the service and training, the new hardware (they had already budgeted...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, PRODUCTIVITY, desktop, Linux, small business, computer, desktop Linux

Discussion threads 2004-09-20

Congressional economists tackle copyright issues

Congressional economists tackle copyright issuesWish this article had more informationIs there a pdf? Where's the link? Any members of congress actually reading this?US Congress?We are talking about the US Congress, right? The reason I ask is that report sounded vaguely like common sense, so I assumed it must have...

Tags: Asset management, Government, Google Inc., U.S. Congress, CBO, asset, John L. Ries

Discussion threads 2004-08-10

Interactive Resume Builder 2003.6 (Windows)

Makes it easy to document your job assignments, skills, and training in a beautifully laid out HTML file with hyperlinks to important information about your career. It will not be a boring recitation; instead, it is interactive. Output is in HTML/Word/text/clipboard formats. Easily posts to job boards or to a...

Tags: Job, Microsoft Windows, Web Site, Higher Math, Professional Development, Recruitment & Selection, Web Site Development, Career, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Internet

Software downloads 2003-12-10