Articles by Dice Staff

• Affinity Groups Look to 'Sponsors' to Help Their Members Move Up

  Methinks I see a new buzzword on the horizon: "Sponsor." A sponsor is kind of like a mentor on steroids: More than a mentor, this is someone in a senior position who's willing to advocate for and…
• Monday's People News

  Skype Fills Two Exec Slots [cnet] Grandparents.com Appoints Jeffrey Mahl as President [Grandparents.com via BW] Textron Systems Adds Jack Cronin as Chief Strategy Officer [Textron Systems] PC Con…
• Monday's People News

  Former HP President Capellas Tapped to Lead Cisco-EMC Cloud Effort [ChannelWeb] Microsoft VP Alex Gounares, Former Technology Assistant to Bill Gates, Leaving for AOL [Xconomy.com] AOL Names Juli…
• Why a Career Plan Helps You Flip the Job Search Paradigm

  By Scot Herrick Career plans, let's face it, are boring. It's like you really should know where you want to be five years from now. But in this economy, a career plan gives you a weapon to flip t…
• Thursday's Headline Roundup

  Outlook Good for Careers in High-Tech [ABC News] 10 Steps to Tech Employment [ITBE] Facebook Friends Seattle, will Open Office Here [Seattle Post Intelligencer] Security Firm Reveals Microsoft's…
• UMass Boston Launches Entrepreneurship Center

  UMass Boston has opened an Entrepreneurship Center as part of the College of Management's MBA curriculum. Dan Phillips, the EC's founding director, puts front and center the program's mentor and…
• Wednesday's Headline Roundup

  Tech Sector Slashed Jobs in 2009 [BusinessWeek] Illinois No. 7 in US for High-Tech Jobs [Chicago Tribune] Telehealth Links Doctors To Remote Patients In Need [InformationWeek] Diary of a Mad McAf…
• Keeping a Virtualized Data Center Safe and Secure

  As the rush to virtualize data centers continues, questions about security keep popping up. When you start storing and transacting large hunks of your business outside the safe confines of your o…
• New York's IT Labor Market Grows Upbeat

  The Great Recession took a large chunk out of the Big Apple's economy, but now recruiters are starting to breathe easier as the labor market begins to rebound. "I would say without question it is…
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  Watch Your Virtual Backside

  It's being called Yelp for people and the new "reputation marketplace" is causing quite a stir. The beta version of the new Web site Unvarnished debuted a few weeks ago amid a flurry of criticism…