November 21, 2009 10:07 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
IT career planning,
IT careers,
IT employment forecast,
IT employment situation,
IT jobs down at biggest companies through 2014In a recent (11/16/09) report, the Hackett Group forecasts that 3.6 million back office jobs will be eliminated by 2014 at companies with $1B or more in 2008 Revenue. The bulk of those cuts (2.2 million) will fall in the period between 2008 and 2014. For 2008 and 2009, cuts come to 964,000, so...
November 13, 2009 6:00 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
developing name recognition,
IT career developing,
IT career planning,
IT careers,
making freelance work pay,
reverse IT outsourcingAs some of you probably know already, I make a sizable and even sometimes substantial part of my living writing computing books. Recently, I've been roped into contributing a book for a series of titles at the behest of a global training organization that goes by the name of the National Institute...
November 11, 2009 9:37 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
IT career planning,
IT careers,
IT education,
IT education online,
online IT education,
University of Phoenix online degreesThe other day I got an e-mail from David F of Tuscaloosa, AL, that read as follows:
I was recently reviewing some of your writings and used something of yours in an assignment (properly cited of course). I am currently taking classes online through the University of Phoenix working...
November 6, 2009 3:09 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
coping with job loss,
IT career planning,
IT careers,
November 2009 employment situation,
US BLS November 09 employment situationToday's the first Friday of the month, and that means that it's also the day that the US Bureau of Labor Statistics releases its "Employment Situation Summary" for the preceding month (October, in this case). As expected,...
November 2, 2009 5:07 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
coping with IT job loss,
IT career planning,
IT careers,
IT employment,
IT employment situation,
IT skills developmentIf I understand things correctly a recession is considered to be over when a quarterly GDP report returns to positive terrritory. With a forecast return for this quarter to a positive growth rate, by some metrics that means the recession is over. But that probably explains why About.com includes...
October 28, 2009 5:07 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
IT career planning,
IT careers,
IT certification,
MCP exam discounts for students,
MS certificationWhat with Prometric being Microsoft's primary global testing center operator nowadays, I guess the two companies simply had to team up to make their recent "learn.grow.succeed" program workable. Here's the...
October 23, 2009 4:21 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
developing IT Presentation skills,
IT career development,
IT careers,
IT Presentation skills,
presentation skills,
soft skills,
soft skills developmentOn Wednesday, I posted a mini-review of Alan Carroll's book The Broadband Connection, which aims to help IT professionals prepare, deliver, and manage...
