IT Employment Tops Milestone 5 Million Mark
Alexandria, VA, November 10, 2015 – The number of IT jobs grew 0.2 percent sequentially last month to 5,003,400, according to TechServe Alliance, the national trade association of the IT & Engineering Staffing and Solutions industry. On a year-over-year basis, IT employment has grown by 4.0% since October 2014 adding 194,200 IT workers. The rate […]
Read MoreEmployee Spotlight: Roger Blau
The spotlight this month shines on a member of DPP‘s executive team: Roger Blau, Vice President of Operations. The definition of “Operations” is very fluid, as you’ll read. Roger is civic-minded, and has been active in the South Carolina State Museum Foundation, the American Heart Association, JDRF, and the United Way of the Midlands Tocqueville Society. […]
Read MoreThe Internet of Things
If anyone has any doubts about the reality of what is being called “The Internet of Things,” doubt no longer. When Cisco CEO John Chambers says there’s a new $14.4 trillion global tech market emerging in the next 10 years, people tend to listen. And the company recently launched a new business group that was […]
Read MoreWhat’s Your Tipping Point?
The face of the American workforce is changing. In 1997, Daniel Pink explored the developing trend of free agents– people who for whatever reason, “are abandoning one of the Industrial Revolution’s most enduring legacies–the “job”–and forging new ways to work”. By 2008, according to one study, 26% of the American workforce described themselves as free […]
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