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The State of Technology Work in 2010

Q A: Companies have had recessionary pressures to cut headcount, but that is not what is keeping IT jobs from consistently expanding from month to month, says analyst David Foote of Foote Partners. The new emphasis on quick-shifting business strategies and on-demand skill sets is undoubtedly changing the way technology workers are being hired altogether.
– Given the March
employment figures released by the government the week of March 29, technology
jobs in the last six months have shown some real signs of growth, with over
22,000 new jobs being reported. The problem is that there are still some signs
of instability in the air, as March also saw t…


Why Hardware Still Makes IBM Tick

Q A: Rod Adkins, senior vice president of IBM’s Systems and Technology Group, talks with eWEEK about the importance of IT systems at Big Blue.
– Rod Adkins is
senior vice president in charge of IBM’s
Systems and Technology Group, the
company’s $19 billion semiconductor, server, storage and systems software
business. He was named to the job in October 2009. Adkins has held a number of
product development, business operations and genera…


IT Career Advice: Questions for a Technology Career Expert, Part 2

Q A: This is the second part of an eWEEK interview with technology career expert and author Janice Weinberg. Part 1 of the interview covers resume trends in 2010, job-seeking approaches for laid-off technology professionals and advice on becoming a contractor. Part 2 of the article addresses issues for older technology workers and the three best ways to increase the likelihood of getting a job.
– The following is Part
2 of a question-and-answer session with technology-career author Janice
Weinberg. Weinberg is a former IBM system
programmer and a General Electric faculty member at the Management Development
Institute and currently runs a career-services company, Career Solutions, based


IT Career Advice: Questions for a Technology Career Expert, Part 1

Q A: eWEEK interviewed technology career expert and author Janice Weinberg, asking for job-seeking advice for IT workers in 2010. In Part 1 of this two-part article, questions to Weinberg cover resume trends in 2010, job-seeking approaches for laid-off technology professionals and advice on becoming a contractor. Part 2 of the article addresses issues for older technology workers and the three best ways to increase the likelihood of getting a job.
– Janice Weinberg is a
former IBM system programmer and a General Electric
faculty member at the Management Development Institute, and currently runs the
career-services company Career Solutions, of Westport, Conn. Weinberg has
written the books quot;Debugging Your
Information Technology Career:…