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Want to attract more applicants for open positions? Hire faster? Improve diversity at the same time? Get rid of gendered language in your job descriptions.
Your personal brand is increasingly important in the job market, and what better way to show off your talents than with an online portfolio? These five websites will help you build and maintain a portfolio that will set you apart from other candidate
Here be dragons: These gnarly corners of the coding world can be formidable foes, even for seasoned pros
When interim CIOs ride into town, they might call the shots on everything from cloud migrations to app development. They’ll even deliver bad news and take the bullets.
Networked DDoS defenses mitigate the danger from hacked IoT devices
There are a million things to worry about but these chief security officers provide advice on how to start off on the right foot.
Amazon Web Services is easy to work with -- but can easily compromise your environment with a single mistake
You can’t aspire to be what you can’t see. To get more women into IT careers, girls and young women will need role models, mentors and public examples of success.
Few of us think a vacuum could possibly become anything remotely viable for criminal use
Organizations say they are increasingly focusing on data-driven decision-making to guide their businesses, but a majority of business leaders lack confidence in the insights generated from data and analytics.
Public, private and hybrid cloud implementations will accelerate in 2017 as CIOs seek to take advantage of the cloud’s economies of scale to build core applications.
If the Wi-Fi in your home workspace or small office isn't as fast or reliable as it could be, your productivity will suffer. This guide to home office Wi-Fi covers everything you need to know to maximize your wireless experience.
CIO.com took a tour of Microsoft’s hyperscale data center in Quincy, Washington. What we saw shows how far cloud data centers have come in a decade.
This 49-page report features advice from IT executives at the U.S. Postal Service, Hunter Douglas, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Nationwide Insurance and more for using digital technologies to become more agile, more flexible and more profitable.
In CIO.com’s latest installment in the Resume Makeover series, career expert Laura Smith-Proulx, helps a CIO tackle his extensive -- and impressive -- background to build an engaging three-page resume.
Unconscious bias impacts IT hiring in a major way, but there's a lot you can do to stop bias before it becomes a barrier to diversity and inclusion. Here are five bias-busting strategies you should use.
Two former ARM executives launch foundation to train millions of children on technology and IoT. Social entrepreneurship in action!
More and more companies use enterprise-specific mobile apps to boost operational efficiency, according to a new report, and if your organization isn't, you're at a competitive disadvantage.
Local, state and federal government officials agree that smart cities initiatives, enabled by the Internet of Things (IoT), will deliver cost and operational efficiencies.
Your company's software could be worth a small fortune even if you no longer need it. Here's how to extract the most value from your intellectual property.
Container use is still relatively new, but it’s poised to have a big impact on the network. Big Switch Networks’ Prashant Gandhi explains.
The famed soccer club’s head of technology explains how Barça uses tech to help its athletes reach their full potential
The growth of artificial intelligence was a hot topic at this year’s MIT Technology Review's EmTech conference, but if you're concerned that robots are about you take your job, rest easy. They aren't.
From secure chips to anonymity services, here’s how to stay safe and private on the web
Organizations are itching to start internet of things initiatives, but efforts are hampered by shortages of already-scarce security pros and workers with newer analytics skills.
The good news is that most organizations now have a data breach preparedness plan. But the bad news that many don't review, update or practice it, according to a new study.
When lives are on the line, power management takes on a whole new meaning
New research from Accenture and Girls Who Code, released at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing last week, reveals that the gender gap in tech is actually getting worse. Here's what you can do to fix it.
If your employees aren't even aware of what document management tools your organization uses — and that's true for 20% of them, according to a recent survey — you've got some serious policy enforcement issues.
The damage, scar tissue, and cleanup process in a post-Snowden world
Mobile apps and IoT sensors direct the needy to nearby help while empowering humanitarian relief groups to do more with less
Cybersecurity is a priority for most businesses, but many are finding a lack of available cybersecurity talent. But not being able to hire the right candidates is no excuse to ignore your security needs.
As tech giants battle for cloud dominance, businesses looking to offload heavy-duty infrastructure tasks are reaping hefty rewards from platform-as-a-service offerings. Here’s how three IT leaders mixed and matched their powerful yet flexible PaaS pa
Brown University professor’s unique approach to the thorny problem of robot grasp could lead the way for robots that can move objects the same way as humans
The coder you need may likely be on the other side of the world, according to recent research.
Here’s how to step out of the server closet and into a more robust (and possibly more rewarding) tech career
Online polls should be viewed with skepticism anyway – they are not scientific. But with the help of bots, they are even less credible – millions of people voting aren’t even people
After years of neglect, refresh announcement later this week may be too little, too late
IBM already has the world's largest enterprise Mac footprint, and it adds 1,300 new Macs every week. The company says its Apple devices save IT time and money, but the cultural changes at the 105-year-old company may be even more valuable.
Windows Server 2016 could be a generational shift in security on par with Bill Gates’ introduction of Trustworthy Computing in 2002.
High-performance computing is reaching new heights, especially in China.
Sometimes, no matter how bad you feel, you have to head to the office anyway. Here's how to handle it.
The Chief Information Security Officer and the Chief Information Officer can be awkward bedfellows. We look at the how the two execs can work better together.
Murphy’s Law—anything that can go wrong, will go wrong—is alive and well in cybersecurity. Here are 10 variants.
CEO Raj Dhingra says platform automates cloud migration, easing test/dev, disaster recovery, and optimizing cost.
Want your email to be secure and private? Stay away from mainstream email and consider one of these options.
Suresh Acharya heads JDA Labs, the 50 person research group at JDA Software Group, the supply chain and retail software giant
The need to create and support a brand as a top employer is a key driving force behind adoption of new technologies designed to make the hiring process better for candidates, recruiters and employers alike.
Technology hasn't just changed the way you apply for jobs, it's also changed how recruiters and hiring managers find you. That means it's time to take your online career presence seriously.
