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Senate Bill Gives U.S. Workers First Dibs on Tech Jobs
One of the longest-running defenses of the hotly debated H-1B temporary worker visa program is that there are simply not enough U.S. workers to fill out many corporations’ programming, engineering and back-office positions, leaving them no choice but to hire workers from overseas. A new Senate bill—introduced in the final moments before Congress departed for…
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Report: IT Service Jobs to Take Biggest Offshoring Hit
While the loss of service jobs to offshoring in the near future will be modest, metropolitan areas with large concentrations of IT and back-office jobs will be harder hit, finds a report released Feb. 12 by the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based independent research group. Noting that public fervor and coverage of offshoring has noticeably died…
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Across the Country, December’s Job Market Waned
Job availability waned in all of the top U.S. metropolitan markets in December, according to the Monster Local Employment Index, released by the New York-based online job board Jan. 22. Portland, Ore., after four consecutive months, took the biggest hit in December, due predominantly to a loss in white-collar opportunities in IT, engineering and management,…
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Execs: Telecommuting Holds Back Careers
Telecommuters are less likely to advance in their careers than workers who toil in traditional office settings, according to survey results released Jan. 16 by Korn/Ferry International, a Los Angeles-based recruitment firm. More than half (61 percent) of the 1,320 global executives surveyed said they saw career stagnancy among telecommuting workers. A study shows professional…
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Monster Invites Job Seekers to See How They Measure Up
Imagine applying for a systems administrator position at Yahoo with the knowledge that you have more years of education and experience than 80 percent of the other applicants. Monster, a careers site based in Maynard, Mass., announced Jan. 17 it would be adding a feature that shares this information, along with a series of other…
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Risky Employee Behavior on Web Threatens Networks
Research by FaceTime Communications has found risky Internet activity by employees poses an increasing threat to network security for corporate enterprises. While the number of unique malware instances was down last year when compared with the 2000 identified in 2005, FaceTime researchers warn today’s malware is stealthier, more complex and harder to identify and defend…
