Hiring the right digital marketing talent in today's busy online environment can be a challenge without honing in on the skills and knowledge candidates need to be successful. After all, digital technologies are
Published on: February 4th, 2014 Michelle Pellettier @mcorsano
Slowly but surely, many companies are loosening their viselike grips on IT hiring and looking to add new staffers to bolster business growth in the year ahead.That trend is reflected in Computerworld's annual
Published on: September 26th, 2011 Rick Saia @itbusinessca
CIO Asif Ahmad believes good managers aren't the ones who can do it all.Rather, the most effective managers are the ones know how to pick which tasks to do themselves and which to
Published on: May 21st, 2010 Mary K. Pratt @itbusinessca
As if outsourcing, virtualization, utility computing, automation, hosted applications, and a recession weren't enough to stress out the average IT professional, there's the emerging threat of cloud computing to take away even more
Published on: July 23rd, 2009 Leon Erlanger @itbusinessca
Some glimmers of hope are appearing in the Canadian job market. The June Labour Force survey from Statistics Canada surprised analysts with its relatively optimistic picture of Canada's labour market. Although unemployment edged
Published on: July 16th, 2009 Lynn Greiner @lynngr
While hiring at many Canadian firms will be slow this summer, industry insiders say IT personnel in certain positions are likely to get pay raises. They include application developers, database managers and top
Published on: June 18th, 2009 Nestor Arellano @itbusinessca
While the employment situation in Canada's IT sector is as turbulent as in other industries, there are many "bright spots" that IT professionals can take advantage of, industry watchers say."In general, candidates who
Published on: May 4th, 2009 Joaquim P. Menezes @itbusinessca
You've been in the IT industry for 30 years, gaining knowledge and experience that's valuable to you and your employers at every step. Now we're in a recession and a new crop of
Two Canadian cities – Calgary and Winnipeg – feature in global professional services firm KPMG's list of 31 up-and-coming locations for IT Business Process Outsourcing (IT-BPO).Other global cities on the list include Belgrade
Published on: March 2nd, 2009 Lynn Greiner @lynngr
My eyes are blurry from reviewing over 40 résumés for a network administrator position, and for good reason. More than half of the résumés did not make it past my initial review. While
Published on: February 23rd, 2009 Greg Schaffer @itbusinessca
The senior vice president of management services at technology services provider Technisource discusses the types of IT skills being sought by his company's midmarket clients. What's the IT recruitment landscape like? The recruitment
Published on: December 2nd, 2008 Computerworld Staff @itbusinessca
I noticed an article called "75 skills every man should master." It included some skills I have and some I don't. For example, I can tie a knot and hammer a nail, but
Published on: October 24th, 2008 Richard Casselberry @itbusinessca
Very few opportunities for advancing into senior IT positions is a key factor that's turning off many Canadians from pursuing a career in technology, say industry insiders.The resulting talent drought, they note, is
Published on: September 23rd, 2008 Nestor Arellano @itbusinessca
Vidya S. ByannaEveryone says project management is a key skill in IT. If I have no project management experience, how do I begin to pick up some basic skills? (I don't want to
