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Nearly four in five employers struggle to fill job roles, a 17-year high
A plethora of job openings and dearth in available talent make an odd juxtaposition with numerous high-profile layoffs in the technology industry and elsewhere during the past six months.
Bad onboarding can lead to high quit rates for new workers
A large percentage of employees are disatisfied with their experience of joining a company, and a recent survey shows nearly half of new hires plan to quit soon after joining a company. That's especially true for remote workers.
Your next job recruiter might be an AI bot
As companies scramble to fill jobs at a time when talent is hard to find, many are turning to artificial intelligence to find, interview, and match candidates to much needed skills.
Raises for some IT pros could jump 8% in 2023, exceeding inflation
The ongoing shortage of qualified IT pros, an improving economic picture, and inflation pressures could push salaries up by 8% for some tech workers this year, according to a new report from business consultancy Janco Associates.
The Great Resignation isn’t over yet
With employees feeling burned out and uncertainty around the job market in general, nearly half of all workers in a recent survey indicated they're actively looking for a new job for the new year.
MetroStar’s ‘fast and fearless’ IT culture is fueled by upskilling
The No. 1 small company on the 2023 Best Places to Work in IT list emphasizes continuous learning and community engagement as part of its strategy for finding and keeping diverse talent.
Avanade’s support for flex work fosters an efficient IT team
The culture at the No. 2 midsize company in the 2023 Best Places to Work in IT list encourages IT employees to fulfill their professional as well as personal goals.
Best Places to Work in IT 2023
Workplace flexibility, diversity, and opportunity prevail at the top employers in our 29th annual Best Places to Work in IT report.
The new way to hire tech workers: from the bottom up
As a dearth of tech talent continues to plague business, companies are getting more creative in how they find and train workers to fill key roles. Apprenticeships are among the fastest growing trends in discovering hidden talent.
What Amazon, Twitter, Meta, and others got wrong with layoffs
The flurry of high-profile tech layoffs in recent months belies the fact that the unemployment rate for tech workers is around 2.3%. What those companies got wrong — their hiring strategy.
Q&A: Expedia CTO details return-to-work program for workers who come back
Expedia Group recently graduated its first group of former employees from a 16-week internship program aimed at reacquainting them to the technology workforce after having been away for two or more years. Anyone who took two or more...
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Why more than half of IT leaders may be looking for new jobs
Two new surveys indicate that more than half of IT decision makers and leaders are job hunting because they lack of voice in the C-suite, see few training and advancement opportunities and feel pressures from a lack of IT staffers to...
Micron to build largest chip factory in US history
Micron plans to build a memory chip fabrication plant in upstate New York that it said will be the size of 40 football fields and create about 50,000 jobs. It may spend up to $100B over the next 20 years on the facility.
Q&A: From parkourist to data analyst — how upskilling launched a tech career
Bailey Shaw, a 23-year-old parkour expert with no tech background or college degree, was able to land an entry-level job with a software vendor where he spent the next year learning low-code development tools. He's now a junior data...
How Generation Z workers are different from everyone else
They're diverse, educated, and resourceful. And while they've grown up with screens everywhere, they crave the human touch more than their predecessors.
Q&A: Schneider Electric's North American CIO on how her company attracts, retains talent
Schneider Electric, a Fortune Global 500 company that specializes in digital automation and energy management, has created multiple programs to attract and retain employees — especially millennial and Gen Z workers.
Q&A: Two coding-bootcamp graduates tell their stories
Attending coding bootcamp isn't for the faint of heart, especially for people already working full time and looking to change course. But for those eyeing a tech career, learning to code can be a fast path into a myriad of tech jobs....
