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A Day in the Life of a Typical Office Worker

"I read the news today, oh boy. About a lucky man who made the grade ..." Does that memorable opening line from the classic Beatles song, "A Day in the Life," describe your typical Monday through Friday? Or are your...Read More

Workers Are Stressed, Overworked, Underappreciated

A significant number of American workers are feeling constant—even chronic—stress at work. They say they're underappreciated and underpaid for all that they do, and they believe that managers aren't ...Read More

How to Convince Your Boss That You Deserve a Raise

As reported previously, compensation for tech talent is going up. In fact, the average salary for IT workers was more than $85,600 in 2012, up from just under $81,400 the year before. And one-third of those em...Read More

Threat Report Urges Focus on Attack Patterns

Two themes emerge from Verizon's "2013 Data Breach Investigations Report." First, a substantial increase in the number of partners that contributed threat data—18 cyber-enforcement entities from around the wo...Read More

Inappropriate Office Decor Can Hurt Your Career

The way you decorate your work space says a lot about you as a professional. With this in mind, you should definitely resist keeping anything like the following real-life, totally off-the-wall office items. The l...Read More

Technology Is a Profession in Flux

If you can count on one thing when polling IT workers, it's contradiction, and IT staffing firm TEKsystems' "IT Professional Perspectives 2013" survey is no exception. Consider this: While the 2,400 IT professionals pol...Read More

Nine Great Quotes From Great Business Books

Are you in need of direction or inspiration? Don't worry. It's perfectly natural for professionals to occasionally feel that they need to recharge their "internal drive" engines, as well as tune up their "career GPS....Read More

Programming Languages That Pay Big Bucks

SQL is a programming language that's high in demand, thanks to its role in big data management. As a result, IT professionals with SQL skills are pulling down great salaries, according to recent research from Indee...Read More

Top IT Jobs (and Salaries) for Men and Women

On the surface, it looks as if there's a wide gap between men and women with respect to IT earning levels, according to the latest Dice salary survey. But a closer examination of the numbers reveals that the playing f...Read More

It's Time to Spring Clean Your Career Profile

Like most homes at this time of the year, a career can always use a bit of spring cleaning. So, have you checked your digital footprint lately to see if a search on your name calls up only professionally beneficial ...Read More

Don't Let Poor Business Writing Kill Your Career

Regardless of your job, it's important to know how to communicate effectively in all types of business documents—and that includes using the proper grammar, word usage, style consistency, etc. As indicated ...Read More

Workforce Preview: What to Expect From Gen Z

Some of them aren't old enough to drive yet, but you shouldn't overlook the inevitable influx of Gen Z workers within the next several years. Currently between the ages of 13 and 18, these future professionals ...Read More

Ten Quotes That Will Inspire Your Inner Leader

Lots of leadership experts talk a big game, yet many of the motivational quotes that are getting a lot of the social media attention fail to deliver. But wouldn't you jump at a chance to take in short nuggets of w...Read More

Ten Sci-Fi Quotes for 'Techies' to Live By

In a recent Baseline slideshow, we played a little game of "What if ...?" and imagined how some famous science fiction characters would function if they were your co-workers. (The verdict: It wouldn't be as weird as you...Read More

Business Users Push Firms Toward the Cloud

Five years ago, managers and staff outside IT knew very little about the cloud. Today, however, they have far greater influence on how a company will adopt cloud computing, according to a survey from...Read More

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