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Loading ...Ring the bell, sucker, school’s back in!
In today’s Daily IT Wire we have a story about McMaster University and Mohawk College offering courses for technology professionals that will teach them more business skills. This kind of continuing education seems long overdue, but it makes you wonder how long it will take for more post-secondary computer science programs to integrate more MBA-like components to their curriculum. That way graduates enter the workforce with the necessary mix of business and IT backgrounds, rather than struggle to play catchup later on.
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(2 votes, average: 10 out of 10) Loading ...Oh, to be a Big Blue intern . . .
I got a pitch today from IBM, seeing if we were interested in writing about its Extreme Blue program for post-secondary students with great potential. We’ve written about it before, so I don’t think we’re going to go back to the well. Besides, our audience are mostly working for non-vendor firms, so the experiences of these students may not be as relevant.
On the other hand, imagine working in any other corporation’s intern program where you are challenged, as the Extreme Blue interns are, to meet the following objectives:
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(4 votes, average: 8.5 out of 10) Loading ...IT’s big fear: Coworkers who outdo them in their absence
Much like Toronto Hydro Telecom, which recently tried to promote its OneZone Wi-Fi service by putting out survey results about how people hate being chained to their desks, British Telecom recently released a study of its own. It says, naturally, that people have a big fear of not being able to access e-mail on the road.
The more interesting result, I think, was the 13 per cent of IT managers who said they would be concerned that a colleague might shine in their place if they were unable to work remotely. Has it really come to this? In a good work environment you should be developing enough of a team spirit that it should be easy for any one member to take over the duties of another. Clinging to remote access technologies so they won’t have a chance is disturbing. Paranoid? Delusions of grandeur? You make the call.
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(2 votes, average: 9 out of 10) Loading ...IDC: Business managers spend a quarter of their time on IT
Maybe we’d all be happier if we lived in Europe. A study from IDC this week suggested that there really isn’t much conflict between IT departments and business managers after all. The highlights from IDC’s European Vertical Market Survey said that “business managers are quite satisfied with their CIOs. The most important message that they want to impart to their IT people is a positive one.”
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(1 votes, average: 6 out of 10) Loading ...IT World’s Salary Survey on CBC
There’s a story this morning on CBC.ca about our recently-released report on compensation levels across the professional technology sector. CBC focused on the skills shortage issue, but that’s only one of several angles you could take. We’ll be featuring a front-page story on the survey in the July 20 issue of ComputerWorld Canada this Friday, and you can download the full thing from our Web site.
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(4 votes, average: 7.25 out of 10) Loading ...The one skill that employers will always say ‘Yes’ to
Let’s get one thing straight: I interview IT managers. I don’t hire them. Yet for some reason, the resumes keep pouring in, either to my e-mail account or the general delivery ones we set up for reader feedback. And, sad to say, I doubt I’d call many of the candidates who are applying for technology jobs here, even if there were technology jobs to be had. Here’s why.
