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On Wall Street, IT Career Change Now Blowing In The Wind

Sunday, March 29, 2009

It’s a well written piece – with the subheadings from page one alone telling a particularly torrid and alarming story (e.g. Quarter-million jobs, Self-worth, No Callbacks, Transaction bubble, Nobu’s Retreat).
According to my Tokyo headhunter contacts, most all the Foreign Banks are in lock down mode for IT hiring. Good people are being let go, sent overseas (Singapore is popular) or outsourced.

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Iceland – Answers From A Foreign IT Director

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Even though Iceland’s economy is in dire straits and the outlook remains uncertain, CCP games is one company that continues to do well.

Jon Mayes is IT Director of CCP Games – the Icelandic Developer & Publisher of EVE Online, a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game.

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Will Your IT Career Survive and Thrive In 2009?

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

This post’s for UK-based Information Technology employees worried about losing their jobs but nonetheless determined to survive and thrive – and is a follow-up to my post on ‘career support for IT professionals’.

Having just talked Friday night with an IT career coach back in the Sceptred Isle, here’s a 1st draft outline of what we’d like to cover in a series of teleseminars:

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Iceland – Questions For A Foreign IT Professional

Friday, January 23, 2009

Following on from my post about Ireland’s slowing Celtic tiger economy, today let’s turn to the small nation of Iceland where banking collapse now seems to be triggering increasingly angry protests.

(For an insight into the developing social unrest see this article in today’s UK Guardian newspaper.)

A while back one of my American friends in Japan relocated to Iceland for a dream IT job with an Icelandic computer games company. He’s still there and, as far as I know, still gainfully employed.

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Career Support For IT Professionals

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Information Technology professionals are being affected by job losses, offshoring and outsourcing in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Just take the recent news by Dell Ireland to move 1900 jobs from Limerick to Poland – no doubt some IT jobs are either included in this number or affected by it.

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Subject: Pre Great Depression 2 Party

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Apparently some Tokyo IT Headhunters have a sense of humour – judging by the “Pre Great Depression 2 Party” email I got from one I know quite well.
It’s been a challenging 2008 for him and others here as many “Gaishikei” (foreign companies) have frozen both temp and permanent IT hiring plans. Ouch!
Seems like 2009 is [...]

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Protected: Laser Focus – 48 Hour Special Starts Now

Saturday, December 13, 2008

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TechCareerZigZag.com Launching Soon

Friday, December 12, 2008

Coming 25 Dec (or sooner, if my outsourced elves keep creating the digital pixie dust) is a unique career coaching and consultancy service for mid-career Information Technology Professionals.
Click on Tech Career ZigZag and see if this is for you.
I’ll be running a 48 hour special starting this Saturday midnight Japan time, where just 5 people [...]

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Losing My LinkedIn Virginity

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

For some months now I’ve been replying to career and coaching-related questions in the Q&A section of LinkedIn. I’m up to the grand total of 30 which impresses me but pales in comparison to those who do that many in one day!
I’ve learned a lot from many of the comments left by others – as [...]

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Career Personality Tests And The IT Professional

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

I’ve enjoyed Simon Stapleton’s post on personality and IT Leaders and decided to take the free personality test at www.41q.com
There are indeed just 41 questions and it took me less than 10 minutes to complete. Here are my results:

As you can see, most suggested career paths are from the caring/helping professions – and it’s true [...]

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