Topic: Tom Silver

By Michelle Maisto on 2012-01-26 Technology professionals have been pulled through the wringer of a struggling economy, but after two consecutive...

Hot times in Silicon Valley

THE San Francisco Bay area is undergoing one of its periodic tech booms on the back of the flourishing of social networking firms. That boom, the...

7 'MBA Preferred' IT Jobs

Network World - Among the 84,000 open tech positions currently listed on Dice. com, there are roughly 1,400 job listings that say a master's of ...
com's senior vice president, who said full-time IT jobs appear to be increasing while contract jobs are on a slight decline. Silver is a smart guy who is certainly closer to the IT job market than I am. As Sanjay Mirchandani ...
The number of available full-time tech jobs has increased 46 percent in the past year, and contractors' hourly rates are rising as companies seek ways to overcome the ongoing IT skills shortage, according to a monthly report from Dice.. "The economy has ...

Dice.com Adds Social Features

Last summer I wrote a couple of articles and blog posts about companies using social channels like Facebook and Twitter to find and recruit job candidates. It's an extension of the existing Dice environment that allows job seekers to integrate profiles ...
For those who wondered whether Java had a future now that it's under the Oracle umbrella, fret no more. The survey's findings map -- in this case -- to the Dice. While the demand for Java programmers among the survey respondents is ...
During the downturn, companies were understandably preoccupied with market forces that could put them out of business. Last week I wrote a post about declining levels of job satisfaction among IT professionals, citing remarks from a Computerworld interview with Tom Silver, Dice ...

Is Anyone Happy with Their IT Job?

Sheesh, is anyone happy with their current IT employment? In a Computerworld interview published on Network World, Tom Silver, Dice's SVP for North America, says disenchantment is rising among tech professionals. Flying in the face of HR professionals, who advised companies ...

Outlook good for careers in high-tech

<div><p>A decade or two ago, high-tech was the place go if you were looking for a job. New companies were sprouting up, offering opportunities to enterprising workers. Then came the dot.com bust.</p><p>"The thing lost after the ...