Articles by Dino Londis
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Can ‘Ban the Box’ Help Convicted Tech Pros?
Earlier this year, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio signed a law prohibiting employers from asking about criminal history on an initial employment application. The law, known as “Banning the Bo… -
Mapping Out Your Career 'Finish Line'
A long time ago, when I worked as a comedian, other comics would tell me their goals. One guy wanted to perform on David Letterman; he worked toward nothing else. When he finally landed on the sh… -
Why Networking Is Overrated
So much has been made about the value of networking, whether online or face-to-face, that the idea of ignoring it seems like a career-killer. It’s who you know, the logic goes, that ultimately ge… -
Want to Strengthen Your Resume? Add Security.
If there was a single takeaway from the recent San Francisco RSA conference, it was that security threats are more ubiquitous, persistent and pernicious than ever. According to Gartner, the finan… -
Security Awareness: The Next Hot Field?
According to recent reports from Symantec and Verizon, user mistakes were responsible for most of the successful cyberattacks that occurred last year. The Verizon report claims that more than two… -
Millennial Tech Workers Losing Ground in U.S.
Millennial tech workers are entering the U.S. workforce at a comparable disadvantage to other tech workers throughout the industrialized world, according to study from Educational Testing Service… -
Dodging a Nightmare Recruiter
Years ago, I worked in a branch office of one of the 10 biggest law firms in the world. I had moved there from a boutique firm, where I worked as a self-taught network admin; after five years I w… -
How I Made the Leap to IT Security
Fifteen years ago, the landscape of IT was so fluid you could almost pick your specialty and start working. The need for computer engineers was so great, that anyone with some ambition could go f… -
How Would You Respond If Watson Did Your Performance Review?
An Oxford University study titled The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerisation? concludes than nearly half of American jobs are at risk of being computerized within two d… -
Here’s a Smart Way to Switch Jobs Inside Your Company
In the changing landscape of IT, you need to take a proactive look at your current position to see if it will exist in a year or two. Of course you can’t know for sure if it will, but you – more…