IT Careers


Careers: Despite Favorable Job Market, IT Pros Stay Put

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.

Indian Outsourcers Vie for Global Dominance

The worldwide market for IT services is booming—and the largest Indian services providers now threaten the market share of top global players

2006 Salary Survey, Part 2: Raises for IT Executives and Managers Remain Tepid

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.

2006 ESJ Salary Survey, Part 1: Salaries Grow for All IT Staff Positions

In the first of our four-part report, we look at compensation growth for professional positions.

Careers: The Incredible Shrinking Economic Recovery

When is an economic recovery not an actual recovery? When it benefits the few at the expense of the many.

Careers: A Job-Seeker’s Market

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.

Careers: Where the Jobs Are

Not being business savvy could become a resume liability as time goes by



Worker Shortage May Stymie Strong Mainframe Growth

What Big Iron shops of all sizes have to say about the future of the mainframe is encouraging—to say the least

Careers: The Vanishing Vacation

If you want to make the most of your vacation, you should be working in a Big Iron shop.

Outsourcing Survey 2006, Part 3: Success Factors in Selecting a Provider

We explore what factors are important when organizations choose their outsourcing partners. Price isn’t the primary consideration.

Outsourcing Survey 2006, Part 2: Why, Where, and Who

We explore why organizations choose to outsource, where they move it, their use of multiple vendors, and success factors in choosing a service provider

Outsourcing Survey 2006, Part 1: What, How Much, and How Long

We explore what IT is outsourcing, how much it costs, and the length of outsourcing contracts.

Careers: CEO Compensation Leaves Rank-and-File Workers in the Dust

Corporate chiefs still earn significantly more than IT staff—although the gap <em>has</em> narrowed

Careers: IT Pros Sound Off on Offshore Outsourcing

IT pros are surprisingly nuanced in their objections to, or support of, offshore outsourcing.

IT Shops Turn to "Blended Sourcing"

In spite of an economic recovery, it isn’t quite business as usual—or business-circa-1999—for beleaguered North American IT pros

Careers: IT Pros Now Outsourcing Service Providers

Some mainframe and minicomputer programming vets have embarked on a very different career path—as outsourcing services providers

Why Talent Once Again Matters

Organizations want to proactively identify and retain top employee performers before they can be identified and potentially wooed away by rivals.

Careers: CIOs Are Hiring Again

Fully 12 percent of CIOs expect to hire new IT workers in the upcoming quarter

Training: Commitment to IT Pros Still Low

Even companies that have embraced next-generation mainframe workloads often give short shrift to the question of training. What gives?

Sprint Nextel Reverses Course on Outsourcing

GM, Dell, and Gap all notched mega outsourcing deals, but Sprint Nextel backed out of its own outsourcing accord with IBM