Articles by Dice Staff

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  How to Rev Up an Employee-Generated Social Content Engine

  Content is king. That rule certainly applies for every form of communication and marketing, including social media. During the recent Social Recruiting Pro Tips Webinar, “How To Engage Millennial…
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  Don’t Include These Things In a Cover Letter

  When it comes to job applications, many candidates treat the cover letter as an afterthought. This is a mistake; your cover letter (along with your résumé) is your first chance to make a dynamite…
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  Microsoft Wants Open-Source Experts

  For years, Microsoft bared its teeth at the open-source community. Former CEO Steve Ballmer once famously referred to Linux as a “cancer,” and the company expended a lot of effort claiming that o…
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  Dice Report: Fast-Growing Cities for Tech Pros

  Many U.S. cities hope to become technology hubs, and with good reason: A dynamic mix of startups and mature tech companies not only brings a massive influx of tax dollars, but also hordes of well…
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  Use a 'Buddy System' When Networking

  Some extroverts love networking. Everybody else, well, probably doesn’t greet it with quite the same degree of enthusiasm. It’s not even a question of being introverted; the prospect of heading i…
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  Résumé-Building Without a College Degree

  Some of the tech industry’s leading luminaries—including Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg—never graduated college, and still went on to found multibillion-dollar companies. That’s some…
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  Fastest-Growing Metro Areas for Tech Pros

  Many U.S. cities hope to become technology hubs, and with good reason: A dynamic mix of startups and mature tech companies not only brings a massive influx of tax dollars, but also hordes of well…
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  Analytics Skills Needed at VC Firms

  For venture capital and private equity firms, the legwork to identify and pick through the right startups and M&A targets is time-consuming and difficult. That challenge has created a market for…
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  Tech Unemployment in Q3 Remains Low

  The technology industry’s unemployment rate jumped a bit in the third quarter of 2015, to 3.0 percent, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). While that’s the highest rate since…
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  Building a Career Beyond Tech Support

  There’s always a lot of debate within the tech sphere over whether tech support can serve as an effective first rung in the career ladder. For every pundit or expert who believes that tech pros w…