Glassdoor Survey Says More People Will Quit in 2018

Employee turnover is expensive – replacing a skilled tech employee or a middle level manager can cost you up thousands of dollars, according to the Society for Human Resource Managers. Losing even a few employees can cause your costs to soar and have a significant impact on your bottom line. Since onboarding replacements takes time and impacts your overall culture and productivity, the impact of employee turnover can have a lasting effect on your organization. Taking steps to retain key employees is more important than ever; understanding what motivates employees to leave and what compels them to stay is [...]

4 Ideas To Help Your IT Career

IT experts need to be continuously sharpening their information technology skills to not only stay relevant in the tech world but also to boost their IT career and stay competitive in the job market. If you are not constantly updating your skills to match the latest technologies, trends, and products in IT, you are going to fall behind on your skill set quickly become outdated. To stay flexible and adapt to the ever-evolving demands of tech. To help you stay ahead of the game and enhance your professional development efforts, we have compiled here four ideas that will eventually [...]

6 Jobs that will have losses to Automation [INFOGRAPHIC]

TITLE: 6 Jobs that will have losses to Automation KEY TAKEAWAYS: • Truck Drivers • Manufacturing • Food services • Retail • Mining • Warehouse workers If you are in one of these, time to think ahead. Not to worry. In 1950, there were 2 Million Typing pool, secretarial and stenographer jobs. Those jobs are gone. They have been replaced by Software developers and other computer related jobs. We are better off not protecting against technology. Read More: 5 Jobs That Will Be Created by Automation >> Read More: 5 Jobs That Are Safe From Automation >> Read More: [...]

It is a Very Good Time to Be a Software Developer [INFOGRAPHIC]

Title: It is a Very Good Time to be a Software Developer Takeaways: There are approximately 1.7M software developers, by a strict definition in the US For every software developer, there is another job as a DBA, analyst or support personnel For every software developer, there are even more jobs as QA, Salespeople selling the software, graphics designers, project managers and so on. There are nearly 250,000 open software development jobs 90% of software development jobs are outside Silicon Valley The average salary of these software development jobs is $104K 1% of the US population is employed as a [...]

These 5 IT Hires Can Cost You an Extra Million [INFOGRAPHIC]

TITLE: These 5 IT Hires Can Cost You an Extra Million Sub Title: The Cost of a bad hire can be high. Hiring the wrong developer can cost you more than just their salary. Bad hires can cause a company to spend unnecessarily on many fronts. Takeaways The Rewriter - They never saw a piece of code they liked except what they wrote themselves. Every time they look at a piece of code, they state “we need to rewrite this” Why is it a problem - Not everything needs to be rewritten, especially if it is working. The Resume [...]