Articles by Dice Staff

• Stealth Resume Errors: Spell Check Won't Catch These Mistakes

  Relying on spell check and grammar check to catch the errors in your resume? Not smart. We all know they may fail to spot misused words like affect when you mean effect or than when you mean then…
• Survival Strategies for IT Contractors

  To be successful, IT contractors have to conquer all sorts of challenges. by Don Willmott | August 2007 Are IT contractors treated unfairly? Ask around and you'll hear all sorts of horror stories…
• Are You Cut Out For Contracting?

  To succeed as a contractor, it's critical to go beyond examining your technical strengths and weaknesses. You have to understand what makes you tick. By Ingrid Goldbloom Bloch | August 2008 Wheth…
• Bookkeeping 101 for Contractors

  If you're considering contracting - or any kind of self-employment - you need to understand these essential pieces of tax and financial information. by Mathew Schwartz Get Relevant Tax and Financ…
• Contracting for the Reluctant

  If you're out of work, your best chance of a paycheck may come from contracting work. Here's how to turn your experience into an assignment. By Dona DeZube At the same time economic challenges ha…
• Best Sources for Contractor Rates

  Faced with the challenge of negotiating an hourly pay rate, neophyte contractors, often convert the salary of full time employees to calculate their wage request. While that's certainly one bench…
• The IRS is Looking At Independent Contractors for all the Wrong Reasons

  If you're a contractor, be sure you have a good accountant. When budgets get tight, governments look for new revenue opportunities - and enforcing the rules about independent contractors is begin…
• Amazon Caters to Your Supercomputing Needs

  Amazon has already gained quite a customer base for its cloud-based EC2 computing services, but now it's ready to pull in bigger customers. A new program, called Cluster Computer, can deliver a l…
• From SaaS to DaaS and Beyond

  By now we're all familiar with SaaS, or Software as a Service. It's one of the basic building blocks of an enterprise cloud computing implementation. Are you ready for the next wave? Meet DaaS, D…
• Friday's People News

  Eric Martorano will lead Microsoft's SMB Channel and Online Services [ChannelWeb] Peter Lee to Head Microsoft Research Redmond [Xconomy] MySpace acquiring team and assets of social messaging serv…