Posts Tagged ‘IT Employment’

DPP Introduces Live Chat Service

Monday, January 23rd, 2012

Now you can chat with one of our Account Managers at DP Professionals! Get your questions answered while you’re on our site. Beginning Tuesday, Jan. 24, and every Tuesday following, our account managers will be available to answer your questions about any of our listings, and to help you join our talent community. For now,

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We’re Having an Open House!

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

DPP will be hosting an Open House for IT professionals on Thursday, Feb. 2nd, also known as Groundhog Day.  What does Groundhog Day have to do with IT professionals? Not much really. However, if you feel like your job has been in a long cold winter, and you’re ready to get out from behind its

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Will the IT department be relevant in 2012?

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

An attention-grabbing blog post by a Forrester Research analyst predicts that 2012 will be “the most transformative year for end user computing since the release of the IBM PC in 1981.” The forecast is based upon the convergence of four trends that are providing employees, previously captive by their own IT department, with new freedoms.

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IT Employment Index, Q1:06 – Q1:11

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

Hybrid IT isn’t the technology in a Prius

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

One new term or concept emerging from the shifting manner of how IT is being deployed throughout an organization is being labeled as hybrid IT. But the definition of hybrid IT is still developing. According to SearchCloudComputing.com, a website focused on cloud computing news, analysis, and case studies, hybrid IT is “an approach to enterprise

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Hiring plans for 2012 remain robust

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

Computerworld’s recent annual survey regarding 2012 IT plans found that 29 percent of the 353 IT executives surveyed, plan to grow their IT staffs. This is a 6 percent increase from last year’s survey. Only 17 percent plan to decrease their IT employee headcount in 2012 while 54 percent expect it to remain the same.

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Unemployment rates low for IT professionals as 2011 winds down

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

The unemployment rate for IT professionals was significantly lower in the third quarter of 2011 than the overall labor force. For the same period, the overall published unemployment rate remained unchanged at slightly greater than nine percent. Occupations Q3 2011 Computer and information systems managers 3.2 Computer hardware engineers 1.9 Computer network architects 0.2 Computer

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“What will the IT dept look like in 2015?”

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

After posing the question at a recent TechRepublic meeting, Editor-in-chief Jason Hiner answered it himself by blogging that “the oversized, centralized IT department of 2011 is a relic that’s never coming back.” Hiner went on to explain that ten years ago, IT departments were busy helping set up “a lot of new stuff” and were assisting

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IT being bypassed for cloud adoption

Monday, August 8th, 2011

A recent Computerworld magazine headline should serve as a warning for IT departments and organizations as it boldly proclaimed: “IT increasingly bypassed on cloud adoption.” The subhead wasn’t any more encouraging: “Many business users say IT shops move too slowly.” A survey by Avanade, a business technology services company, conducted by Kelton Research found that

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Hooray! IT-oLogy Opens its Doors

Friday, February 11th, 2011

Barbara Blau attended the Grand Opening of IT-oLogy on Tuesday, Feb 8th.  Barbara, President of DP Professionals, was one of 300 plus business and educational leaders in attendance to view the 22,000 square feet of space that was transformed from traditional office space to a high tech hub of IT activity.  The space houses computer

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