November 2006
Useless PC users cost business billions
Bring back punch cards. A SURVEY CLAIMED workers using IT incorrectly costs UK business a frankly astonishing £1.7 billion a day. Samsung Electronics commissoned YouGov to canvass 2,000 officer workers about the problems, opinions and attitude to IT. The results conclude a large majority of people using IT spend their time fixing problems or searching uselessly for documents.
August 2006
Tech worker with hot skills getting paid more
About 51% of IT workers are earning some form of additional compensation–often a bigger base salary–because they have skills that employers are hungry for or are afraid to lose. If your skills are hot, your pay is pretty cool. More than half of IT professionals are earning premiums because of their certified and noncertified skills
July 2006
Employers Want M.B.A.s with Quality Work Experience
David Speicher is looking for a few good M.B.A.s who have made their share of mistakes. To Mr. Speicher, head of human resources for a Philadelphia asset-management firm, the best M.B.A. students have made enough decisions and mistakes in their careers to have gained some valuable insight. “When someone makes one of those nausea-inducing errors in judgment,” he explains, “he or she comes away with a blend of confidence and humility.”
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