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• 8 essential resources for researching your next employer

  06-12-2018 23:13
  It’s tempting to jump on the first job offer you get, but the last thing you want to do is find yourself working for a company that doesn’t align with your goals or values. But it’s difficult to get a full picture of a company’s culture and working environment in a few short interviews and one tour of the office building.“Before starting your research, take some time to think about what you want and need — both from and beyond the job — to be successful
  
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• BrandPost: Enterprise AI: The Ongoing Quest for Insight and Foresight

  06-12-2018 22:41
  A constant in the human experience is the ongoing desire to understand the world around us at an ever-deeper level. From the ocean-going explorers of the 15th and 16th centuries to the astronauts of the 20th and 21st centuries, we are on a constant crusade to know more, and to understand life at a deeper level. It was often a matter of surviving and is certainly a key to thriving, but it is also fundamental to our inquisitive nature. Likewise, humans have long desired to know what will happen n
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Digital transformation and harnessing the power of the modern distributed workforce

  06-12-2018 20:11
  Over the past decade, the global workforce has evolved substantially, and it is accelerating. The drivers of this evolution are many fold. The global competitive landscape is relentless; there are generational shifts giving rise to different work modes and behavior; the pace of technology acceleration seems unstoppable; and business has gone through a dramatic digital transformation requiring companies to have a more fluid, agile workforce model.These drivers affect the workforce in a number of
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How to attract the top tech professionals through an improved hiring process

  06-12-2018 19:02
  By now, we’re all familiar with the growing tech talent gap. Today, there are over 500 million vacant tech roles in the US, and projections from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics claim there will be a million more roles in computing than qualified candidates to fill them by 2020.I know firsthand the hiring challenges managers face when it comes to finding experienced tech candidates in an extremely competitive market. However, most hiring managers don’t recognize the obstacles the
  
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• BrandPost: Is Your Network Aware of Your Infrastructure? It Should Be.

  06-12-2018 18:39
  The Major League Baseball World Series finished up recently, and it is always a big deal in my house because I played the sport for many years. When I was a varsity baseball pitcher in high school, I couldn’t imagine pitching a game without being fully aware of everyone and everything on the field—the score, inning, strike count, outs, and runners at any given moment. Awareness is crucial, because when I threw the pitch, my readiness to react could significantly affect the outcome o
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The 15 fastest growing tech skills that also pay better than most

  06-12-2018 16:30
  Did you know there are at least 545 tech skills for which employers are willing to pay extra that either don’t have certifications or it just doesn’t matter to employers that invest in them?And it’s not a small number of tech workers who receive them: at last count our firm was able to validate, and report cash pay premiums for more than 1,000 skills and certifications being earned by 77,600 U.S. and Canadian tech professionals in as many as 3,289 private and public sector emp
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 12 IT change management practices

  06-12-2018 14:47
  The digital era upon us is volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. Change becomes the new normal. In forward-looking organizations, IT has become synonymous with the change department. IT is not only the super glue but also an integrator to weave all important change elements such as people, strategy, process, procedure, and information technology seamlessly, and make multidimensional change sustainable for the long term. Here is a set of IT Change Management practices.1. Reflection and ev
  
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• Rethinking disaster recovery for the cloud

  06-12-2018 12:00
  On September 4, 2018, a cooling problem in a data center created an outage for Microsoft Azure cloud that impacted companies across the south central United States. “Azure was down for most of one business day,” said one IT professional. “Though we’re a nationwide company, all of our traffic goes through Dallas, Texas, so the entire company was affected. It caused a slowdown in many of our business processes.”To read this article in full, please click here(Insider S
  
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