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Top Professional Tech Skill Sets
Top Professional Tech Skill Sets Wondering if your skills are in demand? Is it time to consider new certifications? According to Elance, a leading site for freelance and contract workers, the following professional technology skills are in big demand among technology vendors, solution providers and business consumers. No Title With more than 2,029 jobs posted…
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Sales Training That Sticks for Technology Resellers
How do you sell when your clients are cutting their budgets? How do you build the kinds of relationships that make clients loyal? Larry Hedin, vice president of sales and marketing at Heartland Technology Solutions, believes he knows the answer. He wanted his team to move toward a more “consultative” approach towards selling—establishing relationships with…
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Sun Confirms Another Round of Layoffs
Sun Microsystems confirmed that it has made good on its promised work force reduction plan with another round of layoffs, this time affecting about 1,500 workers. When the server giant announced the work force reduction in November 2008, Sun said it would slash about 6,000 employees at a cost of around $500 million to $600…
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Job Hunters: Available Six-Figure Jobs
According to Channel Insiders layoff tracker, more than 200,000 jobs have been eliminated by IT companies since October. And the bad news keeps rolling in. IBM laid off 5,000 from its global services unit and shifted jobs to India. Sun Microsystems completed its previously announced job cuts by eliminating more than 1,500 jobs. And even…
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Recession a Boon to IT Professionals Working as Temps
Voice over IP rollouts, PC refreshes in certain vertical industries, and point-of-sale installations remain IT project bright spots even as the world continues to be mired in a recession. That’s according to SmartSource, an IT staffing firm that specializes in serving IT solution providers. While pointing to IT projects that continue to show growth, SmartSource’s CEO…
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How to Get IT Job Security and a 6-Figure Salary
Looking for a six-figure salary and a virtual guarantee of a job? Even as the recession grinds on and unemployment remains high, virtualization engineers are enjoying boom-time salaries and job opportunities. As more companies look to server consolidation and virtualization as their big IT projects for saving money in 2009 and beyond, and others look…
