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The disconnect between education and employees

The disconnect between education and employees

By Dan Morrill on March 1, 2011

A recent network world article brought up the disconnect between students, employers and colleges. Realistically education is a tri-parte agreement between students who want to generally learn something useful for their future, educators who need to stay up on top of the technology so that they can teach it to students, and employers who will hire […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged career, Corporation, education, Hiring finding a job, leader, student, thinker | 5 Responses

Three Tiers of IT and where the money is going to be

Three Tiers of IT and where the money is going to be

By Dan Morrill on September 30, 2010

One of the research projects I am working on is how schools, business and people align themselves to develop the skills needed for the workers we need today, and going into tomorrow. Like most forward projecting projects, the data gets fuzzier as you move deeper into the future, but there are some interesting aspects of […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged College, crystal ball, education, employment, future, Georgetown university, h1b, Hiring finding a job, IT, it outsourcing, job market, joel on software, longish rant, prediction, profession, research, rice university, talbee report, thoughts | 1 Response

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Over 50 and looking for a Job

By Dan Morrill on September 20, 2010

There has been a lot of news lately on how being over 50 is a handicap when it comes to finding a new job. Realistically as the NY Times points out, along with a large body of research on being over 50 and looking that they will spend significantly mor…

Posted in Business, General | Tagged employment, Hiring finding a job, job search, Jobs, non-profit, ny times, older workers, work

How far would you go to get a job in todays market redux

How far would you go to get a job in todays market redux

By Dan Morrill on June 9, 2010

Sarah Jones over at the IT Job Board UK has some interesting coverage on how far would you go to get a job in today’s market. In Mid 2009, I wrote about the idea that people would alter their skill sets and knowledge to land any gig in the area. At that point, it was […]

Posted in General | Tagged cloud computing, England, Hiring finding a job, honesty, hp, interesting survey, it jobs, job board, Jobs, layoff, sarah jones, survey, UK

Cloud Computing Globalization and the American IT Worker

By Dan Morrill on February 23, 2010

There are many postings this morning about the influence that cloud computing and globalization will have on the American IT Worker. From my viewpoint Cloud Computing is a benefit to an organization requiring an entirely new mindset and skill set for any IT Worker. Globalization is the same; it requires a different view of the […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged cloud computing, employee, employer, globalization, hire, hiring, Hiring finding a job, interview, job hunting, skills | 1 Response

Bring on the Snake Oil Sales person and Mr Know it ALL

Bring on the Snake Oil Sales person and Mr Know it ALL

By Dan Morrill on February 5, 2010

As a follow on to Cloud Camp Seattle, I met two particularly distasteful people, Mr. Snake Oil Salesperson and Mr. Know it ALL. Both are doing a disservice to everyone, and here is why these people should not be involved in your cloud computing project. Mr. Snake Oil Sales Person This is a huge problem […]

Posted in General, Marketing | Tagged cloud computing, delay, Hiring finding a job, know it all, management, money, project, sales, sales person, snake oil | 1 Response

Maybe it is time for you to do a startup

By Dan Morrill on January 8, 2010

This message over on FriendFeed from Mo Kargas caught my attention this morning because I am hearing it more and more from friends, family, and people who I follow in social circles on the internet. There is a common running thread through the opinions of many people I know that work, and that is a […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged anger, angst, Company, employee, employer, hire, Hiring finding a job, loyalty, mit venture lab, nwen, skills, startup

Smaller Firms trending towards Cloud Computing

Smaller Firms trending towards Cloud Computing

By Dan Morrill on January 7, 2010

If you are in Information Technology (IT) at all, then Cloud Computing is going to be one skill you need to start working on yesterday. As more companies start seeing the economics behind cloud computing, and as computing moves towards a more utility format, this is one skill that if you do nothing else in […]

Posted in Strategy | Tagged 2010, cloud computing, Hiring finding a job, hot jobs, hot skills, IT, job, skills, work | 2 Responses

No Outsourcing is not Immoral it is a fact of business

By Dan Morrill on December 10, 2009

Dennis Stevenson over at Toolbox.com asks a very important question, is Outsourcing Immoral, the sad reality is that the debate over the morality of the process will in no way lessen or stop the process of outsourcing. Dennis (whom I respect and read on a regular basis) has asked a great question, the morality or […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged google, hiring, Hiring finding a job, Jobs, microsoft, morality, outsourcing, perma temp

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