Stories about: Aquent

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For Microsoft shops, Silverlight 2.0 trumps Flash 01 October, 2008 09:39

With the imminent release of Silverlight 2.0, developers and Web designers, particularly those already working in Microsoft IT environments, will have the first viable alternative technology to Adobe Flash for building rich Internet applications, analysts and developers said.
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Looking for IT work in all the right places 16 July, 2008 09:54

It's all about who you know when it comes to looking for IT work, and with social networking technologies gaining popularity, today the number of people you know can grow exponentially online.
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Why 'no Macs' is no longer a defensible IT strategy 22 April, 2008 08:36

Once confined to marketing departments and media companies, the Mac is spilling over into a wider array of business environments, thanks to the confluence of a number of computing trends, not the least among them a rising tide of end-user affinity for the Apple experience.
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Interviewing acumen 01 September, 2003 09:08

Before Mike Johnson took a job as network administrator with the Urban Development Department for the city of Tulsa, Okla., he found himself in a job-hunting quandary. He was getting screened out of interview opportunities by hiring interns and headhunters who knew nothing beyond what acronyms to look for in a resume.
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Grooming your successor 26 July, 2002 09:51

Did you ever hear of the theory that a manager is only as good as how his department performs while he's away? Or that you should always hire people smarter than you? Sounds a little incongruous. If your department ran like a top in your absence and everyone around you was brilliant, you may think you'd appear replaceable. Exactly - but in a good way. While we tend to associate "replaceable" with being fired, we ignore the other possibility - that you are being replaced because you were promoted into a bigger job.