As information technology positions are continually shipped overseas to places like India and the Pacific Rim, many in staffing/recruiting analysis positions note that difficulty facing U.S. IT candidates. And while outsourcing is hitting the IT industry employment situation harder than most, there remains a steady need for qualified candidates in the field. The best (read: […]

I read a Baltimore Sun article a few days back that noted the struggles that young people face when choosing the real estate industry as a profession. In very basic terms, the factors noted in the article are self-evident. That is, people looking to buy or sell a home or commercial property will often “discriminate” […]

I went to my feed reader today to get the daily dose of employment fodder and found that some folks were talking about Generation Y, those “crazy kids” who are just a little bit younger than I am. OK, so I’m 33 and firmly entrenched in the flannel-shirt-wearing, Nirvana-listening Gen X crowd. Side note: I […]