Sorry, your browser doesn't support Java.

Career & Work

This is a list of Career related resources. The career tools to start a job search and finding a job. How to get the job. Deciding if it is the right job. Job market trends. The workplace and the organization. Issues on the job. Contracting. How to get the training for right skills.

Finding a job	Getting the job
The Right Job	Trends & markets
Contracting	Training & skills
On the Job	Workplace
Organizational Issues	Career Tools

IT workers deserve humane treatment

Section 1: Getting the job

• Internet Interview
• What High-Tech Worker Shortage?
• Web recruiting takes off
• In Search Of The Big Payday
• Killer resumes
• Nailing Interviews
• How to negotiate your salary and benefits
• We're in the money
• Looking for a new job? Watch your behavior
• On your best behavior
• Hard facts on soft skills
• Sysadmins: Sharpen your people skills!

Section 2: The Right Job

• JobStar -- Anyone Can Negotiate their Salary
• Secrets of a Superagent
• Job Offer Negotiation Strategies
• The Career Escalator
• Don't Work for a Loser (How to Find an Employer Worthy of You)
• Advancement, burnout, and the love of money
• Managing those ever-tricky money matters
• Managing those ever-tricky money matters, continued
• How to handle multiple job offers
• When should I jump ship?
• Should you switch jobs?
• Job hunters look beyond salary questions
• Is an MBA right for you?
• Family affairs
• True friends of the family
• Regretting your job change, moving beyond your job title, and avoiding the ruins of wishful thinking

Section 3: Trends & Markets

• Retaining staff: A class act
• Telework Programs Are On The Rise
• Need for good coders shouldn't be a secret
• InformationWeek Quiz
• Money, Yes, But More
• 'They Turned The Tables On Turnover'
• IT Pros Reap Rich Rewards
• Salary Survey: Pay Up
• Skills they'd kill for
• Seven Traits of Highly Desirable Web Workers. (If You've Got Them All -- Name Your Price)
• So Many Compensation Surveys, So Little Meaning
• Companies combat IT labor crunch
• Delicious developments
• Bridge over troubled waters
• The top 25 techno-MBAs
• Paying through the nose
• Desperate measures
• They'll do anything to lure tech talent
• The top 25 IS job markets
• The future of IS: Elites and free agents
• Taking shots at the IT labor "shortage"
• All work, no play? Gen X-ers: No way
• Firms spruce up work space to lure IT talent
• Retention getter
• Bending the rules
• IS employers skip background checks
• IS mavericks
• Attack of the young turks
• Newbies with attitude
• IS newbies: Eager, motivated, clueless
• Techno teens
• Defending their turf
• We want you! (Please?!?)
• IS job market demands more than technical skills
• Payback time
• Squeeze play
• Missing links
• No stone unturned
• DB dandies
• Europe's skills shortage could hit IT pocketbooks in the U.S.

Section 4: Training & Skills

• Intraware Webinars
• Online Learning: Java
• E-learning: The Universal Solution
• Online Learning: Linux and Unix
• University of IT
• SmartPlanet.com
• Freeskills - Course List Page
• Online Education
• How to prepare your IT staff for mainframe-to-Unix migration
• Tops at training
• Objects of affection
• IS firms look beyond tech skills
• Developing technology skills for the 21st century
• Arrested development
• Take charge of your training
• Free training lures recruits
• Managing your career in software development
• Want training? Just sign here...
• The learning edge
• 'net train, net gain?
• Mentor your staff
• The changing role of IS certifications
• DPEC Interactive Course Catalog

Section 5: On the job

• Beyond Bookstores: IT Books
• Defend Your Life At A Start-Up Firm
• TekBay.com - IT World at a Glance
• Managing your career in software development
• How'm I Doin?
• On-the-job job hunting
• More time at home or less time at work?
• Organizing your way out of the corporate paper bag
• People who need people
• Get your act together
• What Your Boss Should Be Doing to Keep *You* Happy

Section 6: The Workplace

• Golden Parachute
• First-Time Management Mistakes You Won't Make: Common pitfalls for new managers and ways to avoid them
• Employers Quick To Fire, Quick To Hire
• Evangelizing change -- or who will be your agent of change?
• Managers, workers play the pay rate game
• Dear ex-boss
• Staying hot in the workplace
• Gimme some RESPECT!
• Hurts so good
• Frazzled? Let's party!
• It's not who you hire. It's who you keep
• Privacy in the digital age
• Power up your presentations
• Thankless jobs?
• Managing the mix
• Who owns your creativity?
• Child's play
• Driving forces
• Time to go?

Section 7: Organizational Issues

• Luring the brainiacs
• E-commerce talent hard to find
• Where are the Workers? Part I
• Harvesting project leaders
• Internet-Based Recruiting: Missing the Target
• Task masters
• Project management top guns
• The leadership edge
• Building IT competency
• Simply discipline
• Setting your organization's technology standards, policies, and disciplines.
• Cut workplace frustration -- take these steps to build an efficient help desk
• IS money can't buy happiness
• What are the most common IT organizational problems?
• Ten IT commandments
• 6 steps to improving communication between IT support groups
• Know your users, keep them as customers
• Get users, IT, and management working together more effectively
• This is child's play
• The New Enterprise IT Services Model -- What are the building blocks?
• To outsource or not to outsource -- What are the factors?
• A quick interviewing guide for IS managers
• What about my DBAs?
• Companies struggle with new roles of IS pros
• Ramping up your IT retention
• Breach of faith
• When a win-win option becomes a loser
• Parting thoughts
• Organizing IT for success.
• The IT buddy movie

This page was last updated on 07/17/01