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Time is the Enemy of HR (and its Employers)

Time is the Enemy of HR (and its Employers)

By Brian Sommer on January 31, 2014

HR Processes Are Stuck in First Gear – Still Most HR functions have been automated. Tedious, labor-intensive activities such as payroll calculations and benefits administration were automated years ago through combinations of tools such as ERP technology, IVR, standalone HR solutions, etc. For the most part, most HR solutions in use today are still at […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Connect6, HireVue, hiring, hiring process, HR, HRMS, Identified, job market, recruitment | 2 Responses

Come On Silicon Valley, We Can Provide a Better Rx for Jobs!

Come On Silicon Valley, We Can Provide a Better Rx for Jobs!

By Bob Warfield on August 3, 2011

Fortune magazine has an article running that Techmemed about some advice Barrack Obama is getting about jobs from Silicon Valley Heavyweights like Kleiner VC John Doerr and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.  They’re all about Education and Immigration Visa Reform as the path to creating jobs, along with plugs along the way for their own ventures.  Here […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Barack Obama, Big Government, economy, education, job creation, job market, Silicon Valley, smb, startups, strategy

IT Jobs Recovery Continues, Picks Up Steam

IT Jobs Recovery Continues, Picks Up Steam

By Dennis Moore on May 10, 2011

There have been a spate of news stories in the IT press covering the state of IT hiring. Once a quarter or so, I look at the job posts in Dice.com across many different keywords – a useful proxy for the IT hiring market at least for the U. S. Three months ago, IT hiring […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged hiring, job market, jobs, news, recovery | 8 Responses

Labor Day -- Layoffs and beyond: Will Sourcing Labor Get Cheaper?

Labor Day — Layoffs and beyond: Will Sourcing Labor Get Cheaper?

By Jason Busch on September 6, 2010

Like most Spend Matters readers in the United States, I’m taking off to spend the day with my family, holding our last official summer barbecue. But that hasn’t stopped me from thinking more closely about a subject that’s been on …

Posted in Business | Tagged BBQ, Employment, job market, Labor Day, Labour economics, layoffs

Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

By James Governor on September 3, 2010

As I have argued before, in IT everything is dead. That is- if its in production, its “dead”. When a commentator says Technology A is dead, they generally just mean its not an Apple or Google product. So what about Java, in light of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, and the complete win of the web […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged .NET, google, hadoop, Java, job market, NoSQL, oracle, skills

What can we learn from software development job posts? (SQL, Java, and XML will get you a job!)

What can we learn from software development job posts? (SQL, Java, and XML will get you a job!)

By Dennis Moore on April 5, 2010

About a year ago, I posted some analysis of what we can learn from job posts. Since then, the job outlook for at least the American economy has substantially declined, but there are still opportunities available if you have – or can develop – the skill…

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Dice.com, it jobs, Java, job market, jobs, mySQL, salesforce.com, sap, Thoughts | 7 Responses

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