How IT leaders can attract (and retain) millennials

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	How IT Leaders Can Attract (and Retain) Millennials If you lead an IT shop today, chances are at least some of your workers are in their 20s. Millennials -- also known as Generation Y -- think about life and work differently than older employees, and hiring and retaining them requires management that understands their needs and a business environment to match. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Webcast Demonstrates New Collaboration Advances An insightful webcast demonstrates how you can harness the power of people-centric collaboration in today's post-PC world. You'll learn about new collaboration tools and technologies and witness firsthand why they're making the experience more immersive and more mobile, in boardrooms, bistros, and everywhere in between. Watch the webcast today. See how these solutions make collaboration possible from iPads to boardrooms. And learn how they're enabling organizations to accelerate decisions, be more productive, and save countless dollars in the process. View the webcast and see for yourself. In this Issue Patrick Thibodeau: Outsourcing: What Romney and Obama don't discuss INSIDER How to manage IT contractors INSIDER Tech execs earn how much? INSIDER Free and cheap ways to study for IT certifications Facebook, Google pick up talent from small startups Cisco cuts 1,300 jobs in 'limited restructuring' Amazon offers to pay vocational training for warehouse staff WHITE PAPER: EMC Transform End User Computing Turn to EMC to bring new simplicity, power, and efficiency to end user computing-any user, any device, anywhere. Click to continue Patrick Thibodeau: Outsourcing: What Romney and Obama don't discuss No one wants a real discussion on offshore outsourcing. Not President Barack Obama, not Mitt Romney and not the Brookings Institution. It's really not clear just what the Brookings Institution report this week on the geography of H-1B visa contributed to the debate. Read More INSIDER How to manage IT contractors Contract IT workers may walk, talk and code like staff, but in fact they're not company employees -- something managers should keep in mind. Insider (registration required) Read More INSIDER Tech execs earn how much? Be honest, you salivate when you see those stories about mega rich people. You are a bit envious, definitely jealous but then say to yourself that you must have a better quality of life than that millionaire. Anything to rationalize the situation. Read More WHITE PAPER: Datawatch Bringing Big Data into your Analytics Strategy. Learn how Datawatch Information Optimization can eliminate your content blind spot by allowing you to get to all of your organization's data, so you may take action in improving your business. Learn more. INSIDER Free and cheap ways to study for IT certifications Studying for and taking IT certification exams can be costly. These tips can help you find inexpensive study resources and ways to get hands-on experience with the technologies you're studying. Read More Facebook, Google pick up talent from small startups Following a trend some have dubbed "acqu-hiring", both Facebook and Google said they are taking over startups more for their talented staff than their products and services. Read More Cisco cuts 1,300 jobs in 'limited restructuring' Cisco is cutting 2% of its global workforce, or about 1,300 employees, in a "limited restructuring," the company said. Read More Amazon offers to pay vocational training for warehouse staff Amazon is offering to cover 95 percent of the cost of vocational training courses to help its warehouse staff pursue jobs in other careers, including many that Amazon does not offer, the company said Monday in a letter posted on its home page. Read More
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