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Report: Job Benefits Burden to Fall on Workers
2007 will bring greater expectations of responsibility and self-financing of benefits for U.S. workers, according to a report issued Dec. 28 by Watson Wyatt Worldwide, a Washington-based global consulting firm. Among the health care benefit trends predicted in the report is an increased focus on HDHPs (high-deductible health care plans) coupled with reimbursement arrangements such…
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Job Seekers Fear They’re In for a Long Haul
Nearly 40 percent of job seekers feel that their age, and not the economy, has kept them from finding a new job, according to the results of a phone poll released Dec. 28 by Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a global outplacement consultancy in New York. An additional 6 percent of respondents said other forms of…
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Survey: 40 Percent of Employers to Hire in 2007
Nearly one in 10 employers will hire more than of 500 new employees in 2007, according to a survey released by Chicago-based CareerBuilder.com on Dec. 26. While more than one-third (36 percent) of employers expect to add 10 employees or fewer in 2007, 29 percent intend to hire more than 50, and 20 percent plan…
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This Happy Breed: IT Workers Who Like Their Jobs
When the majority of people talk about work, it’s almost undoubtedly followed up with a complaint. From "Dilbert" comics to the movie "Office Space," the grumblings are remarkably similar: too little pay, too many hours, no respect, bad chairs, mean bosses, stifled creativity, under-funded projects, lousy equipment and an assault of busy work. Hearing enough…
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IT to Become Career Gateway, Not Finish Line
The future enterprise technology career path will meander in and out of the IT department, according to research presented a Forrester teleconference on Aug. 22. "Enterprise IT is going through a metamorphosis. The career path is not as straightforward as it once might have been. You used to start as a programmer or operator and…
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Linux Professional Institute Adds Open-Source Job Placement Service
For years, the Linux Professional Institute has offered the most important basic Linux worker certification, the LPIC. On Aug. 16 at LinuxWorld in San Francisco, the organization launched a new employment and contract matching service for open-source workers who are registered on LPI’s internal exam candidate database. The new program will match qualified open-source workers…
