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What Amazon, Twitter, Meta, and others got wrong with layoffs
The flurry of high-profile tech layoffs in recent months belies the fact that the unemployment rate for tech workers is around 2.3%. What those companies got wrong — their hiring strategy.
Q&A: Expedia CTO details return-to-work program for workers who come back
Expedia Group recently graduated its first group of former employees from a 16-week internship program aimed at reacquainting them to the technology workforce after having been away for two or more years. Anyone who took two or more...
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Why more than half of IT leaders may be looking for new jobs
Two new surveys indicate that more than half of IT decision makers and leaders are job hunting because they lack of voice in the C-suite, see few training and advancement opportunities and feel pressures from a lack of IT staffers to...
Micron to build largest chip factory in US history
Micron plans to build a memory chip fabrication plant in upstate New York that it said will be the size of 40 football fields and create about 50,000 jobs. It may spend up to $100B over the next 20 years on the facility.
Q&A: From parkourist to data analyst — how upskilling launched a tech career
Bailey Shaw, a 23-year-old parkour expert with no tech background or college degree, was able to land an entry-level job with a software vendor where he spent the next year learning low-code development tools. He's now a junior data...
How Generation Z workers are different from everyone else
They're diverse, educated, and resourceful. And while they've grown up with screens everywhere, they crave the human touch more than their predecessors.
Q&A: Schneider Electric's North American CIO on how her company attracts, retains talent
Schneider Electric, a Fortune Global 500 company that specializes in digital automation and energy management, has created multiple programs to attract and retain employees — especially millennial and Gen Z workers.
Q&A: Two coding-bootcamp graduates tell their stories
Attending coding bootcamp isn't for the faint of heart, especially for people already working full time and looking to change course. But for those eyeing a tech career, learning to code can be a fast path into a myriad of tech jobs....
IT workers face greater stress from remote issues
With in-person IT support now relatively rare, tech workers are under increasing pressure to support end-users and endpoint devices remotely — and they need better overall support and tools to do that.
IT salaries aren't keeping up with inflation — but that may soon change
Pay for IT workers was generally slack in 2021 and the first quarter of 2022, according to surveys of large and mid-sized companies. But that trend is expected to turn around as CIOs face talent shortages and try to attract and retain...
What Gen Z and millennials want from employers
Young workers not only want better pay, they want previously less-popular benefits such as mental health care and four-day workweeks, according to three surveys by separate companies. And they want to work for a company that cares...
Apple improves enterprise training to meet growing demand
Apple has completely redesigned its professional training and certifications for IT support and management to help build the skills base a fast-growing number of enterprises now need.
No degree? No problem. Tech firms move away from college requirement for new hires
With a 2% unemployment rate, the tech industry is rethinking what job applicants need to get hired. Skills-based hiring is on the rise, and 59% of employers are considering eliminating college degree requirements — changes that could...
Google offers US businesses $100,000 worth of digital skills training
Eligible companies can apply for up to 500 free scholarships to help digitally upskill their employees.
As biz travel slowly returns, some companies expect workers to pay their own way
Business travel is still two years away from reaching pre-pandemic levels, according to Deloitte. But when it does bounce back, some companies expect remote workers to pay for trips back to the office.
BlueJeans enters virtual corporate learning space
The Verizon-owned videoconferencing platform BlueJeans has launched a dedicated Corporate Learning and Training platform to improve engagement in virtual learning environments.
11 cybersecurity certifications for security jobs in the Netherlands
Here are the top in-demand certifications to help you gain a competitive edge in the Netherlands for jobs in penetration testing, cryptography, security architecture, and much more.
Real IT leadership: Selling the transformative dream
It's one thing to cook up a great new initiative, but making it happen requires powers of persuasion, solid partnerships, and access to genuine technical insight.
How Australians and enterprises can address the digital skills gap
Employers and employees alike need to put themselves ahead of this problem and not be dependent only on future graduates but also invest in skills and training now so they can become the solution tomorrow.
