IT pros have long endured the slings and arrows of an employer’s marketplace. The tables are turning, but there’s still considerable disparity between the thoughts and perceptions of hiring managers and prospective job seekers.
The worldwide market for IT services is booming—and the largest Indian services providers now threaten the market share of top global players
An improving economy and more robust IT budgets are helping loosen the budget purse strings for key IT line staff positions but not for key management positions surveyed.
In the first of our four-part report, we look at compensation growth for professional positions.
When is an economic recovery not an actual recovery? When it benefits the few at the expense of the many.
Thanks to reduced unemployment and a graying workforce, we could be on the verge of a war for top IT talent. That bodes well for mainframe pros.
Not being business savvy could become a resume liability as time goes by
What Big Iron shops of all sizes have to say about the future of the mainframe is encouraging—to say the least
If you want to make the most of your vacation, you should be working in a Big Iron shop.
We explore what factors are important when organizations choose their outsourcing partners. Price isn’t the primary consideration.
We explore why organizations choose to outsource, where they move it, their use of multiple vendors, and success factors in choosing a service provider
We explore what IT is outsourcing, how much it costs, and the length of outsourcing contracts.
Corporate chiefs still earn significantly more than IT staff—although the gap <em>has</em> narrowed
IT pros are surprisingly nuanced in their objections to, or support of, offshore outsourcing.
In spite of an economic recovery, it isn’t quite business as usual—or business-circa-1999—for beleaguered North American IT pros
Some mainframe and minicomputer programming vets have embarked on a very different career path—as outsourcing services providers
Organizations want to proactively identify and retain top employee performers before they can be identified and potentially wooed away by rivals.
Fully 12 percent of CIOs expect to hire new IT workers in the upcoming quarter
Even companies that have embraced next-generation mainframe workloads often give short shrift to the question of training. What gives?
GM, Dell, and Gap all notched mega outsourcing deals, but Sprint Nextel backed out of its own outsourcing accord with IBM