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Providing the Perks to Retain Your Best Employees
Solution providers may not have the budgets for corporate laundry service, a diverse array of free meals from on-site restaurants, or annual trips to exotic locales, but that doesn’t mean channel businesses don’t spend a lot of time and resources ensuring they keep their top talent happy and engaged. In fact, retaining high-quality employees consistently…
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Creating IT Futures: Looking for a Few Good VARs
Are you looking to hire in 2012 but want to give something back to the industry as well? CompTIA’s Creating IT Futures Foundation is looking for a few good VARs to volunteer for its IT-Ready Apprentice Program. The program, announced in fall 2011, provides employers with IT-Ready Apprentices who have been trained by CompTIA and…
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Recruitment Firms Specialize in the Channel
Solution providers may prefer seeking out job candidates via word-of-mouth and referrals from current employees or customers, but sometimes they need outside assistance from recruitment firms. For those channel organizations seeking a helping hand, there are placement firms that specialize in working with VARs, from offering temporary staff to recommending potential full-time staffers in an…
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Sign of the Times: Now Hiring
The overall unemployment rate is slowly inching downward, and an informal survey of solution providers shows that channel executives are quickly bolstering their staffs as customers gear-up to spend on long-delayed IT projects and invest in new technologies that will help their businesses save money, enhance productivity, or become more flexible. Currently, the general unemployment…
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Cloud-Savvy IT Professionals See Abundant Opportunity
A recent study of technology job want ads shows a 61 percent increase in demand nationwide for IT professionals with cloud computing experience. The study, which is based on ads posted by about 2,400 businesses, was performed by Wanted Analytics, a firm that provides business intelligence for the talent marketplace. “This growth spurt shows that…
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Mobile Workers to Number 1.3 Billion by 2015: IDC
By 2015, the world’s mobile worker population will reach 1.3 billion, representing 37.2 percent of the total workforce, according to an updated forecast from IT analytics firm International Data Corporation (IDC). The report projects the most significant gains will again be in the emerging economies of Asia/Pacific thanks to continued, strong economic growth. The Americas…