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How to Manage Summer Interns: 5 Expert Tips from LinkedIn

Managing interns -- plus your own workload -- can be tricky. Here are five expert tips from LinkedIn to help you both make the most of the partnership. Full Story »
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Career Watch: Companies Expect to do More IT Staff Hiring in Short Term

The CIO at Auto Club Group - AAA offers advice on jump-starting a young career and coping with office politics.

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What Will It Take to Get More Women Execs in IT?

Women still make up a woefully small percentage of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) professionals. IDGE CEO Michael Friendenberg wonders if the tide will change soon.

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Forrester: Hire Software Developers Who Take Part in Open Source Projects

Analyst firm Forrester has encouraged businesses to recruit software developers who take part in open source projects, as it shows they are keeping their skills current.

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How to Implement Next-Generation Storage Infrastructure for Big Data

Managing the petabyte-scale and larger data stores that are a fact of life with Big Data is a different beast than managing traditional large-scale data infrastructures. Online photo site Shutterfly--which manages more than 30 petabytes of data--shares its strategy for taming the storage beast.

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Cloud Computing Skills Shortage Forces CIOs to Grow Their Own

CIOs, technology vendors and consultants agree that a serious shortage of cloud computing skills across the IT industry threatens to impede adoption and deployments. A CIO's best bet for addressing this dearth of talent is to focus on training their existing IT staff.

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Stop Searching for That Elusive "Purple Squirrel"

The right tech talent is critical to a company's efficiency, innovation and financial success, and demand for qualified talent has never been greater. As the pressure mounts, the search for the perfect candidate is getting increasingly competitive.

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How to Hire Software Developers: Quixey Has an App for That

With venture capital again flowing, technology-driven companies are struggling to find qualified software engineers. A lack of skilled developers can threaten a companys product plans and revenue goals. To address this challenge, Quixey, a creator of a search engine for apps, developed an online coding competition that lets it identify top-notch talent. It has saved the company nearly $45,000 in recruiting costs and helped it hire four software engineers in three months.

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CIOs Overcome Shortage of Business Analytics Talent

Business intelligence, analytics and big data are all the rage. But those enterprise endeavors require staffers with solid business knowledge, statistical expertise and presentation skills--skills many IT pros don't have. Here's what CIOs are doing to get them.

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Building a Great Place to Work

What are you really working for? CIO.com columnist Rob Enderle discusses how successful companies build rewarding workplaces, engender employee loyalty and create great products. Spoiler alert: sky-high CEO bonuses aren't part of the recipe.

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IT Hiring Continues to Show Gains

CIOs plan increased hiring in the second quarter, though not at the pace of the first quarter, according to the results of a new survey.

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At Least 1 Woman Should Be Interviewed for Every IT Job Opening, Advocacy Group Says

A not-for-profit group advocating there be more women working in information technology has just published a report that says recruiters for high-tech jobs should make sure there is at least one woman candidate for every job opening in IT.

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Time Warner's CIO Talks Hiring for a Social Enterprise

Bill Krivoshick, CIO of Time Warner, was brought on board to provide integrated IT for all of the company's various entertainment brands. CIO columnist Phil Schneidermeyer talks with him about hiring for an eventual social enterprise.

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How to Manage a Distributed Development Team

Managing developers is always a challenge, but supervising a distributed development team adds complications and costs. However, with consistency and a little (OK, a lot) of communication, it's a proven approach that can -- among other things -- help you recruit and retain senior developers.

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Employment for Security Professionals At All-Time High

Information security is where the jobs are, and where opportunities will continue to increase, a survey has found.

 
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Changes in business objectives and advances in technology compel many businesses to reassess their B2B integration capabilities to seek further process efficiency. We find that very few enterprises make a large change to their B2B integration process for a single reason; instead, multiple factors combine to create the need for change.
Do you know what seller types you have and what it takes for them to succeed? Online information sources and social networks have made basic product information and recommendations so readily available and ubiquitous that the role of the 21st century salesperson is now more so than ever defined in terms of his or her ability to add value to the customer.
Enterprise mobility: Most IT leaders say it's transformational, strategic. But only 18% said in a recent study that they have a comprehensive strategy for mobility. The problem: Lack of expertise, time and resources, among other issues.
How "mobile ready" is your infrastructure? This Mobility Knowledge Vault provides a wide variety of expert advice on how to strike a balance between end user ease-of-use and security. Prepare your organization with primers on data encryption and user authentication, device disablement and devising an employee-liable device strategy that makes both IT and users happy.
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