IT employment shrinks in September

	Career Watch: Noncertified skills pay still has edge over certs | Paul Glen: How CIOs can become more influential
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	IT employment shrinks in September One month does not make a trend, but IT employment dipped last month after a long stretch of gains. Read More WEBCAST: T-Systems Charting a Course for Realizing Business Value in the Cloud Cloud is not simply about delivering IT services. Rather it is about vesting the organization with the agility it must have to respond to challenges and opportunities at the speed of business. Tune into this live webcast - Thursday, October 18, 2012, 2:00 PM, EDT - to learn how to blaze your own pathway to enterprise applications in the cloud. Learn more. In this Issue Career Watch: Noncertified skills pay still has edge over certs Paul Glen: How CIOs can become more influential Grad schools add big-data degrees INSIDER Microsoft pitches new $10,000 H-1B visas Sharky: But now I have a bigger checklist! WEBCAST: Riverbed Best Practices for the Hyperconverged Enterprise Network Join Maryam Zand, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Riverbed Technology, as she discusses how you can: Achieve unified communications Realize business short-term ROI Optimize network performance, regardless of end-user location Increase user productivity Learn more. Career Watch: Noncertified skills pay still has edge over certs Latest report from Foote Partners shows the pay advantage has now been documented for six straight years. Read More Paul Glen: How CIOs can become more influential The first step is to expand what, for those in IT, is a limited understanding of what influence is. Read More WEBCAST: VCE Boosting Asset Utilization of Vblock Customers This webcast will highlight detailed results from a recent IDC study, sponsored by VCE, of five organizations that have implemented Vblock Systems, and seen dramatic cost savings, vast improvement in deployment times, and reduction in downtime. Learn more. Grad schools add big-data degrees Colleges and universities are moving swiftly to create advanced degree programs aimed at helping to fill an exploding need for specialists who can manage and analyze big data. Read More INSIDER Microsoft pitches new $10,000 H-1B visas Proposals to overhaul the H-1B visa program have re-emerged in Congress -- and a particularly interesting one comes from Microsoft. Insider (registration required) Read More Sharky: But now I have a bigger checklist! Consultant pilot fish gets an assignment filling in on this company's PC help desk -- and the first call is a one of those no-display-on-the-monitor problems. Read More
	VOTE NOW: WHAT'S ON YOUR 2012 HOLIDAY SHOPPING OR WISH LIST? Computerworld wants to know: What type of tech gear do you most want to give or receive as a holiday present this year? Let us know by taking our quick poll. We'll focus on the most popular product types in our upcoming 2012 holiday gift guide. SHARK TANK OF THE DAY Because users love having the latest version This office has several remote users who connect from home to the actual physical PCs in their office, and they're pretty good about letting the IT support staff know about issues -- but they're not exactly computer savvy. CAST YOUR VOTE IN THIS WEEK'S QUICKPOLL Users of Apple's new Maps app in iOS6 are encountering inaccurate maps, off-kilter points-of-interest, missing streets and addresses and more. Is the iOS 6 Maps controversy a black eye for Apple? NEW COMPUTERWORLD JOB BOARD Search multiple listings now and get new job alerts as they are posted.
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