Getting your business off the ground is expensive. According to a study conducted by the Kauffmann Foundation, startup costs average around $30,000. If you’re looking to significantly decrease your operating costs, you’ve probably already considered going remote.
Hiring good people is an enormously difficult task. The task is further complicated when interviewing technical talent, as you may not be knowledgeable of all the factors that go into writing good code. On top of that, there are so many factors that go into assessing an individual that go far beyond recognizing skills, experience and education. What makes someone a good fit for a role is seldom seen in a resume; the intangibles are what truly set candidates apart.
One of the big enterprise mobility stories of late is the ruling by a California court that companies who require employees to use their personal smartphones for work must reimburse those employees "a reasonable percentage" of their monthly bills. As CITEworld's Nancy Gohring reported last week, similar legal challenges are happening in other states, including Washington, New Jersey, and Michigan.
Electronic road user charges and transport services company Eroad is looking to hire 40 engineers by the end of the year.
Companies are still concerned about the economy, but that hasn't stopped them from funneling more of their revenue to the IT department, according to the latest survey data from the Society for Information Management (SIM).
Contracting in the ICT industry continues to rise, according to A/NZ ICT association, Information Technology Contract and Recruitment Association (ITCRA).
IT staff retention is shaping up to be one of the biggest challenges facing CIOs in 2012.
Louis Trebino, CIO and senior vice president at the <a href="http://www.harryfox.com/index.jsp">Harry Fox Agency</a> (HFA) in New York City, is experiencing significant turnover on his Web development team.
As CIO and managing director of Morrison and Foerster-ranked among the 50 largest law firms in the world by revenue-Neeraj Rajpal is responsible for implementing strategic and tactical global IT and for managing records initiatives for the firm's 1,200 lawyers in 16 global offices.
In the early 1990s, before the browser and search wars, Bill Gates was asked to identify Microsoft's biggest competitor. His answer was a surprise: "Goldman Sachs."
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) is investigating whether the hiring practices of Google, Yahoo, Apple and some other technology companies may have violated anti-trust regulations, The Washington Post reported last week.
The focus of the investigation is not clear, but appears to address the possible agreements among these companies not to poach top executives from one another. The investigation includes biotech company Genentech, as well as other tech companies, the Post said, citing two unidentified sources.
Tom Ajamie, managing partner of the Ajamie law firm in Houston, says he was surprised by the reports of the investigation. Ajamie's firm focuses on antitrust and employment cases, and Ajamie has represented several tech companies in lawsuits over employees leaving for competitors, he says.
IT remains one of the more positive industry sectors in recruitment firm Hudson’s latest survey of employer hiring intentions.
AbsoluteIT director and Auckland general manager Martin Barry says now is “a particularly hard time to be making predictions” about the ICT recruitment market.
More than one in five employers search social networking sites to screen job candidates, according to a survey of more than 31,000 employers released recently by CareerBuilder.com.
IT continues to be the most buoyant sector of the New Zealand economy in terms of hiring expectations, according to recruitment firm Hudson’s latest six-monthly survey of hiring intentions.