Articles by Elisabeth Greenbaum Kasson
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Here's How General Dynamics IT Hires
Headquartered in Fairfax, Va., with approximately 21,000 professionals worldwide, General Dynamics Information Technology, is one of four business units of the General Dynamics Information System… -
How to Get Hired by Deloitte
Deloitte LLP -- the audit, financial advisory, tax and consulting firm and its subsidiaries -- has about 60,000 employees in more than 100 offices across the country. Its technology practice invo… -
Increasing Demand for Oracle DBAs
Employment for DBAs is projected to grow 15 percent between 2012 and 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. While that’s a slightly slower gain than is anticipated for some other area… -
Here’s An Interview Question With One Right Answer
How does Michael Heyward, the 26-year-old founder of secret-sharing app Whisper, identify employees who have the innate excitement to drive the company forward? He asks them about Ohio. Specifica… -
Air-Sickness Bags? Unusual Ways Geeks Spend Their Off Time
While the archaic stereotype of a sweaty, plugged into the motherboard kind of geek continues to disintegrate, we’re still stuck on the one that posits that a 16-hour work day trumps any kind of… -
Uber’s Travis Kalanick Likes ‘Experiential’ Hiring
San Francisco-based Uber, brainchild of serial entrepreneur/CEO Travis Kalanick, is currently valued at $3.5 billion. Despite having been stymied by regulators in several key markets, the nearly… -
Why Your Tech Job May Be Killing You
Research is finally backing up once-empirical evidence that an office job can be as hazardous to your health as one that’s out in the field. Recently, Business Insider published a comprehensive l… -
Krishna Gupta: Building Startups From the Web to Your Cup
Krishna Gupta is a Los Angeles-based technology entrepreneur, occasional hard-rock guitarist, whiskey aficionado, real estate mensch and all around good-idea manufacturer. He has his dad to thank… -
After 30 Years in IT, One Woman Sees More to Do
Sandra Ashworth, Unisys’s global director of channel relations and warranty, is an evangelist for women in IT. A member of CompTIA for more than 20 years, she’s currently the chair of the organiz… -
Kaplan to Launch Ruby on Rails Boot Camp
National education and training heavyweight Kaplan Test Prep has teamed up with thoughtbot, a consulting firm that makes Web and mobile apps, to launch a Ruby on Rails immersive boot camp called…