Microsoft expects to hire roughly 6,000 to 7,000 workers over the next 12 months, the company said Saturday, though it is unclear how many of those hires will be filling new posts.
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The best way to avoid a career rut is to ensure that your workday presents new challenges and hones new skills. Here are some solid tips to make sure your career doesn't get stale any time soon.
When an employee refuses to be a team player or always shows up late for work, your other team members will resent it--and you'll have to deal with the fallout. We offer guidance on these two issues
Do the boards of IT companies deliberate extra carefully before making a deal with government for fear of having their name pulled through the dirt when they stuff up?
Melbourne-based Web start-up 2Vouch yesterday launched the first public beta of what it dubs its "social recruiting platform".
E-mail is frequently blamed for creating storage bloat, but is the most effective means of dealing with the problem increasing storage capacity, imposing quotas, enforcing archive rules, or just driving the help desk nuts with questions?
For no particular reason that I can discern, a 1979 Kenny Rogers song popped into my head as I was considering the ever more complex morass that is the national broadband network tender which Senator Stephen Conroy defended in his CeBIT keynote speech.
ICT salaries are rising, but they are certainly not skyrocketing.
Knowing that you're experiencing burnout doesn't help much if you don't know what to do about it. Use these tactics to help you break free from work-related burnout.
One of management's main functions is to keep the staff busy on the most important work. People, supplies, and money are too precious to spend on tasks that don't carry the greatest business value. Tom Mochal explains planning the use of your resources.
In a tight job market, a certification can distinguish you from other job applicants. The question is, which certifications are the most advantageous to hold?
Necessity truly was the mother of invention at AGR Upstream Petroleum, a natural resource exploration firm that last year found itself needing a way to co-ordinate a AU$100 million ship refit involving nearly 40 subcontractors in three countries.
Managing people is hard enough, but when your people are split across many projects it can be downright impossible without the right approach. David Braue finds out why proactive human capital management has become critical to future business success.
Does your company's human resource management functions need to be automated? We look at what you need to consider, and three packages to help you do it.
If you spend more time fighting fires than adding business value through IT, it's time to look at this comprehensive management solution for medium businesses.
SCVMM 2008 R2 is a very competent product, neatly bringing Microsoft's virtualisation management offering in line with the competition at the same time as offering management of disparate platforms in the one product. The integration with the rest of the Systems Center suite makes the overall management and monitoring experience better than its rivals.
The Brother MFC-990CW is a speedy, fully capable all-in-one device that earns our recommendation for an individual or a family that will make use of its touchscreen and telephone/answering machine.
We've tested plenty of printers at CNET, but very few have frustrated us as much as the Brother DCP-165C multifunction has. The counter-intuitive set-up, bland design, deplorable print quality and crawling output speeds earn this printer a double thumbs down.
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