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H-1B Update: Immigration Reform Bill Fails to Pass
In mid-June I shared with you my concern and frustration that Congress would not expand the H1-B visa program, which issues temporary work visas to highly skilled professionals in technology, science...
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Throwing Money & Opportunity across Our Borders
Where will American businesses go when they can no longer bring the skilled global workers they need here to work? This month, Microsoft provided us with one possible answer: Canada. In early July,...
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Harvey Nash -- Far Ahead of the Outsourcing Curve
In the world of technology and innovation, being first can make you a legend. Consider the Wright brothers or Steve Jobs, who (despite fields of contemporaries working and succeeding at the same time)...
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Want Some Positive Employment News?
When it comes to employment news today, there are some reasons for gloom. The December 07 employment report showed the lowest non-farm payroll gain since 2003. Meanwhile, the Writer’s Guild strike is...
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What Goes Down Must Come Up
It’s the reverse of the old Blood Sweat and Tears Song, “What Goes Up, Must Come Down.” With a technology-savvy president in the White House, what’s gone down is sure to come up. It’s no news flash...
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U.S. Employment Rates ARE Improving
Last week, the BLS reported an increase of 216,000 new jobs and an unemployment rate of 8.8%. While some pessimists will claim the 8.8% shows very little progress, I would ask them to take another...
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Overcoming the Innovation Hurdle
Innovation. Ideally it’s at the top of every CIO’s To-do list. It’s at the top because strategic innovation can set a business apart in the marketplace, launch it far ahead of the competition, drive...
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Your Viral Brand Value & the Recruiting Consequences
The essence of your brand has an important double life these days—one that is measured in links, in “Likes,” in “tweets” and in “Friends.” Your viral brand hums along the ever-expanding arms of today’s...
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The Big Picture Focus of Seattle IT Leaders
Innovation, the Cloud and Data.The Harvey Nash CIO Survey is big. It’s big in size—40+ pages long. And it’s big in reach—2,000 senior IT leaders from around the world participated this year. Though I...
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Looking for answers? Look at your hands.
Break a finger and you’ll suddenly realize how much you depend on your hands. Heck, a paper cut will tell you the same thing. The point is that most of us, perhaps with the exception of pianists and...
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What Lies Ahead for American Business?
Last week, I hosted my annual Harvey Nash USA Leadership Lecture. My invited speakers were my boss, Albert Ellis, Global CEO of Harvey Nash, and the distinguished Senator from Massachusetts, John...
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Social Media Recruitment & Staffing: We're Winning
As anyone who’s watched a tween text or a toddler use an iPad knows, inspired technologies can spread through the market like wildfire. They can capture generations of users in only a fraction of the...
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Watch “Place Me Maybe"
& Change How You See the WorldJust a week ago I was at the TechServe Alliance 2012 Conference giving a talk to industry peers on how incoming generations work very differently. It’s meant a lot of...
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Don't Look Down
Harvey Nash USA was privileged to host Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, at our annual Leadership Lecture in New York. It was a fascinating event with tremendous insight from Carly and a...
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Maintaining Our Balance
Did you see the story about Nik Wallenda, who completed a 1,500 foot high tightrope walk without harness over the Little Colorado River Gorge in northeastern Arizona, near the Grand Canyon? During his...
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