Intelligence

Employers Screen Job Candidates on Social Media A growing number of employers are using social media to screen job candidates, according to a recent survey from CareerBuilder. They're looking for information that either supports or disproves a candidate's claimed qualifications for the job...
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Why Tech Pros Need to Develop Soft Skills When evaluating job candidates, employers and HR managers consider emotional intelligence and interpersonal behavior, including eye contact and body language.
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Tech Salaries Are Higher, but Hiring Slows Down IT salaries—while on the upswing in recent years—have risen sharply since last year, according to a recent survey from Janco. The accompanying report, "2017 Mid-Year IT Salary Survey," indicates that overall IT earnings have increased by...
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Workers Have Job Satisfaction, but Dislike Change All employees have some gripes about work, but most of us are satisfied with our job, according to a recent survey from the American Psychological Association (APA). The "2017 Work and Well-Being Survey" reports that overall indicators are...
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How Your Workplace Habits Can Harm Your Health A clear majority of professionals feel they are overweight, even when they exercise on a regular basis, according to a recent survey from CareerBuilder. To a large extent, they can blame the workplace lifestyle, findings reveal. Most employees snack...
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Why Employee Confidence Is Soaring Employees are feeling increasingly encouraged about the overall economy and their own professional prospects, according to recent research from CEB, now part of Gartner. The resulting "CEB Global Talent Monitor" reveals that perceptions are...
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Why Employees Can't Disconnect While on Vacation Two different surveys—one from Glassdoor and the other from Accountemps—reveal that a growing number of U.S. employees can't completely "break away" while on vacation. For starters, they're not using nearly the amount of paid-time-off...
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Why Business Wants More Power Over IT Purchases As organizations increasingly expect technology to deliver better bottom-line results, they are empowering more line-of-business departments to make major decisions about the acquisition of tech solutions, according to a recent survey from CompTIA....
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IT Pros Have Less Stress, Better Work-Life Balance Relatively few IT employees feel their jobs are stressing them out, according to TEKsystems' annual "IT Worker Stress Test and Work/Life Balance" survey, and a decreasing number feel obligated to remain accessible 24/7, indicating a good work-life...
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Will Intelligent Automation 'Unleash' Employees? With the pace of work growing over the past year by the equivalent of an extra work day every week, organizations are showing significant interest in intelligent automation technologies, according to a recent survey from ServiceNow. The resulting...
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