I was presented with an opportunity to submit some email questions to Ellen Fanning, Special Projects Editor for Computerworld, in regard to their 20th annual IT Career Survey. You can see the discussion over at Friends in Tech. Check it out and share your own experiences and thoughts!
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Just a head’s up. Kevin Devin has created a Friend in Tech group on Facebook, for fans of any of the various FiT member shows, or blogs. If you’re interested in hanging with some other techies or getting to know the other fans and members who have Facebook accounts, go check it out! Even if…
These surveys just keep getting worse and worse. These types of things are going to create a massive hole in the labor force, and destroy our ability to create a diverse work environment. Since the pandemic started, almost half of working parents (40 percent) have had to put the breaks on their career, either voluntarily…
Seth’s point here is one many workers would do well to remember:
“It’s easy to use our indispensability as fuel. Fuel to speak up and contribute. That’s important. But it’s also possible for that same instinct to backfire, and for us to believe that if we don’t do it, it won’t get done right.
That’s unlikely.”
Sometimes, things happen. Circumstances change, what we want from our careers changes, and what the current employer can offer us changes. There’s no shame in it, and there shouldn’t be any hard, or awkward feelings about it.
I’d love to see companies get on board with that, but that’s going to require we see our people as people first, and labor inputs second. I’m not so sure some managers are capable of that.
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– Personally, I lost cell service, and contact with the outside world, for 1 day, but in Baton Rouge, AT&T failing is accepted knowledge.
Last week I was in London to attend a conference being put on by my employer, and to teach a training class in the days following the conference. With the conference allowing for a number of employees to be in town, I had a few newbies in my class as part of helping them understand…
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