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Most firms have not defined mobability policies

Webmaster — Sat, 12 May 2012 22:48:32 -0600

Policies defined the rules of the road for mobile computing yet only one in five organizations have them defined and implemented according to Janco Associates. This lows rate of definition is driven by smaller to mid-sized firms as almost half of all large firms have mobility policies defined.

When a CIO or an IT Executive takes over a new job one of the greatest challenges is to quickly validate that the infrastructure that is in place. Would it not be nice to have some tools that could be use to quickly put proven world class policies in place with minimal effort. That is what the CIO IT Infrastructure Policy Bundle does.

The mobility policy template address all areas related to mobility: mobile devices (including procedures for lost devices), mobile applications including consideration for approved applications for business use), and data in mobile environments (including policy for using public Wi-Fi networks).

Mobile workers to drive IT

Webmaster — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 01:43:59 -0600

By 2015, the world's mobile worker population will reach 1.3 billion, representing 37.2 percent of the total workforce, according to an updated forecast from an IT analytics firm. The report projects the most significant gains will again be in the emerging economies of Asia/Pacific thanks to continued, strong economic growth. The Americas will experience a slower growth rate due to a protracted economic recovery and high rates of unemployment, the analysts concluded.

This bundle contains the following policies:

CIO IT Infrastructure Policy Bundle
Backup and Backup Retention Policy
Blog and Personal Web Site Policy
BYOD Policy
Incident Communication Policy
Internet, e-Mail, Social Networking, Mobile Device, Electronic Communications, and Record Retention Policy
Mobile Device Access and Use Policy
Outsourcing Policy
Record Management, Retention, and Destruction Policy
Sensitive Information Policy (HIPAA Compliant)
Service Level Agreement (SLA) Policy Template with Metrics
Social Networking Policy
Telecommuting Policy
Travel and Off-Site Meeting Policy
Electronic Forms

More workers stop looking for work

Webmaster — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 06:10:24 -0600

Industries and occupations related to health care, personal care and social assistance, and construction are projected to have the fastest job growth from now until 2020. Total employment is projected to grow by 14.3 percent over the decade, resulting in 20.5 million new jobs. Despite rapid projected growth, construction is not expected to regain all of the jobs lost during the 2007-12 recession. The bad news is that the number of individuals dropping out of the job market continues to increase and the Labor Participation Percentage continues to fall.

http://www.ejobdescription.com/IT_Salary_Survey.html

Webmaster — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 09:47:39 -0600

IT pros are reeling from a one-two punch brought on by the sustained economic crisis: Organizations of all stripes have reported deep cuts to their training budgets in recent years, and they have held off on initiatives that would have given workers a way to learn new technologies.

At the same time, technological evolution continued at its breakneck pace. Janco and eJobDescription 2012 Salary Survey found that the skills related to emerging technologies, such as mobile, wireless and communications systems, cloud computing and Web security, enjoyed the biggest year-over-year increases in demand among IT managers who plan to hire in the next 12 months.

On top of that, hiring managers say they want people with the basic tech skills that have always been required, as well as business acumen, communication skills and customer service abilities.

Finding a job - social media implications

Webmaster — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 06:08:16 -0600

The process of finding a job has changed in the digital age, and human resources managers and other hirers are using new tools to screen potential job candidates, according to recent research. While resumes and other traditional means of candidate-employer interaction remain standard, many hiring managers want a more complete picture of their applicants. That could include job-fitness assessments to determine whether you fit in with the company culture - and maybe even probing your world view.

So it is wise to make sure you've got your social media ducks in a row before you begin a job search. What you say on Twitter could haunt you. Organizations are recognizing that their attraction and retention of top talent is what will propel them to the top. There is a tremendous opportunity for companies worldwide to put their people intelligence to work to create positive, profitable business outcomes.

What is the jobs picture?

Webmaster — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 10:06:52 -0600

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has released its biennial employment forecasts, and this year's report has some good news for IT workers. The agency predicts that employment in all computer-related fields will grow 22 percent through 2020. Some job titles will do even better, for example software developers (28-32 percent growth), database administrators (31 percent growth), and network and systems administrators (28 percent growth).

While the forecast looks good, some experts say the U.S. IT job growth isn't as high as it needs to be. Victor Janulaitis, CEO of research firm Janco Associates, characterized the IT job growth as "anemic," saying, "When you consider the overall demand for systems and applications in high-growth markets like China and India, [the BLS projections] mean the U.S. will be doing a diminishing portion of the development and implementation work. If that's the case, the U.S. will no longer be the leader in IT."

He added, "The BLS projections are a bad sign for the U.S. IT graduates from universities. Those numbers do not cover the net growth necessary to give all of the graduates jobs."

BLS forecast is for anemic IT job growth

Webmaster — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:15:21 -0600

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) forecasts that offshoring will hurt the growth of U.S. programming jobs in over the rest of this decade, though expansion of healthcare IT and mobile networks will in turn increase demand for software developers, support technicians and systems analysts.

By 2020, employment in all computer occupations is expected to increase by 22%, but some IT fields will fare better than others, according to the BLS biennial update of employment projections.

Demand for software developers will be the strongest in this period, with increases ranging from 28% to 32%, depending on the type of software development.

The agency's forecasts, particularly for technology-related jobs, are often controversial because they can't account for rapid market changes and tech disruptions. But its estimates are often cited in various policy debates on issues ranging from education to immigration.

The IT employment growth rate projected by the BLS was characterized as "anemic" by Victor Janulaitis, CEO of Janco Associates, a research firm that analyzes IT wage and employment trends.

"When you consider the overall demand for systems and applications in high-growth markets like China and India, [the BLS projections] mean the U.S. will be doing a diminishing portion of the development and implementation work," said Janulaitis. "If that's the case, the U.S. will no longer be the leader in IT.

"The BLS projections are a bad sign for the U.S. IT graduates from universities. Those numbers do not cover the net growth necessary to give all of the graduates jobs," Janulaitis added.

Outsourcing via offshoring is costing jobs in the US and Europe

Webmaster — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:45:27 -0600

Offshoring continues to shrink the number of IT jobs, but in 10 years companies will run out of jobs to offshore, study says
Offshoring is negatively impacting the number of IT jobs in large corporations. A management consulting firm examined services occupations in finance, human resources, procurement, and IT. They found that only 4.5 million of the 8.2 million jobs in these fields that existed in the U.S. and Europe at the start of 2002 will still exist in 2016.

Of the 1.8 million IT jobs at the companies represented in survey about 270,000 jobs in the U.S. and Europe will be moved offshore between now and 2016. The U.S. share accounts for about half of the total jobs lost, or 135,000. By 2016 the firm estimates that 1.8 million IT jobs in North America and Europe at large companies today will have declined to about 1.5 million, despite the growth of many of these companies.

This decline in IT jobs reflects decisions to buy IT services, in the form of cloud-based services. But the IT industry, which has been seeing employment growth, will still move some of those jobs moved offshore.

Microsoft say cloud will generate 14 million job internationally

Webmaster — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:44:36 -0600

Implementation of cloud services will create 14 million jobs internationally by 2014, with the greatest increases occurring in emerging markets, which are not constrained in deploying cloud systems by legacy infrastructure, according to a new study from Microsoft.

China and India alone could create up to 6.8 million new jobs related to the cloud, the study found. Because many of the businesses in these emerging markets are young, they aren't bound by the "Legacy lag" -- as the study calls it -- that could be holding back cloud adoption at larger enterprises around the world.

IBM lays off over 1,200 employees in US and Canada

Webmaster — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:52:26 -0600

According to an IBM employee organization, reports and independent sources, IBM has laid off more than 1,000 employees with some estimates going as high as 1.200 or more in the U.S. and Canada

According to an IBM employee organization, reports and independent sources, IBM has laid off more than 1,000 employees with some estimates going as high as 1.200 or more in the U.S. and Canada.

Some industry experts say that the layoffs in the U.S. are part of an IBM strategy to limit the number of Big Blue employees in the U.S. in favor of lower-cost workers in emerging countries.

IBM, which employs more than 425,000 people around the world, in 2009, stopped releasing figures on the number of employees it has in each country. In 2009, IBM listed 105,000 employees in the U.S., down from nearly 134,000 in 2005. Now, Alliance@IBM estimates that in 2011 IBM employed 98,000 workers in the U.S.