Articles by Nate Swanner

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  Poor Training, Lack of Skills Leave Older Workers Behind: Study

  A new study from Docebo suggests professionals across the world want to learn skills to help them at work... but the training just isn’t there. Baby Boomers are most affected: 40 percent of older…
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  DOE Makes It Easier for Predatory For-Profit Coding Schools to Dupe Students

  Department of Education (DOE) Secretary Betsy DeVos is making a critical rule change that will allow for-profit schools and career certification providers to prey on unwitting students. It could…
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  Behold! The Best F^($!%& SwiftUI Cheat Sheet Yet

  SwiftUI is still in beta, but has commanded the mindset of Apple platform developers since it landed at WWDC 2019. It’s a fun new paradigm for iOS and macOS developers, and we’ve discovered the b…
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  Weekend Roundup: Going With ARM, Getting Lost, and Being Found

  It was a pretty quiet week in tech (aside from Jony Ive deciding to leave Apple), which is great in some ways, but we’d love to have too much to talk about. There were a few cool standouts, thoug…
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  Tech Workers Seem Unconcerned About Gender Pay Gap

  In a recent study, Beqom found the gender pay gap is alive and well… but many employees don’t consider it a critical issue. That doesn't mean recruiters and hiring managers should ignore the issu…
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  Survey Results: Tech Professionals Want Pay, Not Perks

  Last week, we asked you if better (and more) benefits were more enticing than a pay increase. You’ve spoken, and the results are clear: You want more cash. By a margin of 4:1, tech professionals…
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  Millennials, Tech Employees Least Concerned With Gender Pay Gap: Study

  In a recent study, Beqom found the gender pay gap is alive and well... but many employees don’t consider it a critical issue. As you might expect, more women than men are aware of the gender pay…
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  Most Tech Professionals Don’t Think Advanced Degrees Matter: Study

  Some 31 percent of tech professionals say they could do their current job without their degree, according to new findings from Hired. Respondents were asked if the master’s or doctorate they hold…
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  Ageism in Effect: The Earnings Ceiling for Tech Professionals Over 40

  New data shows that, as tech pros age, they earn more... but ageism starts to kick in when they're around 40 years old, and there’s a distinct ceiling for earnings. Calling ageism “a less talked…
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  Weekend Roundup: POS, Project Catalyst, Privacy, Pull Requests, Pixels

  This week was a weird one in tech. For starters, Facebook launched another bad idea, this one a cryptocurrency. Sort of. It’s garbage. Just ignore it for the moment. There are other, more importa…