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Technology Skills Gap: Fact or Fiction? Part I (Video)
Many organizations are looking to take advantage of technologies like unified communications, mobility, big data, and cloud solutions (to name a few) to enhance business operations and remain competitive in their sectors. Implementing and supporting such solutions requires highly specialized engineers to design, install and manage networks as the backbone of these deployments – video – The myths and realities of the technology skills gap with Gary Beach
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Technology Is Destroying Jobs finds a MIT professor
Given his calm and reasoned academic demeanor, it is easy to miss just how provocative Erik Brynjolfsson’s contention really is. Brynjolfsson, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and his collaborator and coauthor Andrew McAfee have been arguing for the last year and a half that impressive advances in computer technology—from improved industrial … Continue reading
Technology sector layoffs surge as Hewlett-Packard cuts job cut
Planned layoffs that will impact 30,000 workers at computer giant Hewlett-Packard helped push job cuts announced by technology-sector firms to their highest level in three years, according to a report on tech-sector downsizing released Monday by global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. Technology firms, including those in computer, electronics, and telecommunications, combined to … Continue reading
e-literacy | A key skill
The Horizon Report is an annual publication of the trends and technological for education. It is published by the New Media Consortium. According to the Report, “digital media literacy continues its rise in importance as a key skill in every discipline and profession.” It then identifies trends and critical challenges (quotes). Trends People expect to … Continue reading
Job | Technological Know-How is a Must
“As the internet has grown from 70 million users in 1997 to 2.2 billion, entrepreneurial companies with technology at their core have disrupted entire industries and threatened or eliminated incumbents. For example, Square, the new electronic payment service, has already upended a long-established financial ecosystem, with some arguing that it may even replace cash” writes Daniel … Continue reading
BC | Hiring surge for tech sector
British Columbia’s technology sector appears to have weathered the global downturn and expects to create more than 3,000 new jobs in 2012, according to a new survey from the B.C. Technology Industry Association. The group’s bi-annual TechTalent B.C. survey showed the industry expects a five per cent growth in jobs this year with demand highest … Continue reading
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