[itroundtable] CIO Article: IT Job Seekers: Will You Stumble Over These 12 Interview Questions?

 

Forwarded by Ann Bergquist CIO Leader   July 16, 2009 IT Job Seekers: Can You Answer an Interviewer's 12 Gotcha Questions? If you want to land an IT job--whether on the help desk or as a CIO--in this competitive labor market, you better be prepared to answer these dreaded job interview questions. Click to Continue Table of Contents Executive Compensation: The 10 Highest-Paid Tech Chiefs of 2008 Unconventional IT Job Interview Questions Seven Ways to Improve Your E-Mail Messages How to Stop E-Mail From Ruining Your Summer Vacation An Amazon-Owned Netflix: Good and Bad Microsoft Office vs.Google Docs: A Web Apps Showdown Six Ways to Succeed with Sourcing and Vendor Management Socialtext's New Tool: Think of It as Private Twitter for Enterprises RIM BlackBerry Tour 9630 (Verizon) $99 on Amazon Microsoft Office 2010: Three Helpful New Collaboration Features Apple Rumor: $800 Tablet Due in October Executive Compensation: The 10 Highest-Paid Tech Chiefs of 2008 A look at the IT executives who are cashing the biggest paychecks and the reasons why these men (and one woman) earn what they do. Click to Continue Unconventional IT Job Interview Questions If you could be a super-hero, which one would you be? IT professionals share some of the more ridiculous questions they've been asked during job interviews. Click to Continue SPONSOR: OpenText The Evolution of Records Management In the era of e-discovery, enterprise records management is fundamentally not a retention challenge, but rather a disposition challenge. In this session you'll hear common-sense advice around how to set measurable ROI expectations for your records management goals, providing the groundwork for a viable and sustainable investment business case. Click to Continue Seven Ways to Improve Your E-Mail Messages You are judged by the writing style, tone, language, and mistakes in your e-mails every single day. We're all so optimistic we believe people will overlook our e-mail typos and mistakes, while at the same time we privately label those who send us sloppy e-mails as careless, confused, or ineffective. A free e-mail service, GMX, did a survey and found the majority of Americans (58 percent) think less of people based on their e-mail content. Let's look at seven ways to help your e-mails label you as smart rather than stoopid. Click to Continue How to Stop E-Mail From Ruining Your Summer Vacation E-mail overload can ruin your summer trip. One solution: Use Twitter, blogs and wikis to tame your inbox this summer - and beyond. Here's advice from one IBM employee who cut the e-mail cord more than a year ago and has not looked back. Click to Continue SPONSOR: Progress Software Improve agility with Operational Responsiveness Operational Responsiveness is the ability of business processes and systems to respond to changing conditions and encourage Customer Responsiveness enabling business leaders to capitalize on opportunities, drive greater efficiencies, reduce risk and promote Operational Awareness. Click to Continue An Amazon-Owned Netflix: Good and Bad Interest in Amazon leaped yesterday as a rumor circulated about the potential of Amazon.com buying the DVD rental and streaming video service. Here are the pros and cons. Click to Continue Microsoft Office vs.Google Docs: A Web Apps Showdown Today, Redmond unveiled as a part of Office 2010 a suite of Microsoft Office Web apps that will compete directly with Google Docs. While Microsoft isn't letting anyone play around with the apps just yet, on paper, Microsoft's Web apps look like they could blow Google's online services out of the water -- beta or no beta. Click to Continue  Click to Continue Six Ways to Succeed with Sourcing and Vendor Management From challenging vendors to perfecting process, Forrester's Sean Sweeney shares advice from CIOs on how IT teams can improve their sourcing and vendor management at a time when successes will truly be noticed by the business side. Click to Continue Socialtext's New Tool: Think of It as Private Twitter for Enterprises New standalone Socialtext Signals product lets enterprise employees communicate in a real-time stream about projects, documents and other items. Think of it as Twitter for just your team. Click to Continue RIM BlackBerry Tour 9630 (Verizon) $99 on Amazon The brand new BlackBerry Tour 9630 from Verizon Wireless is already available for half-price on Amazon.com. Click to Continue Microsoft Office 2010: Three Helpful New Collaboration Features In the upcoming Office 2010 suite, enterprise users will find several changes aimed squarely at collaboration. Here's a quick tour of these new Microsoft Office helpers. Click to Continue Apple Rumor: $800 Tablet Due in October The rumors may be getting closer to the truth, or vice versa, as a report surfaced from Taiwan today that Apple plans to releases its much discussed tablet computer this October. Guesstimated pricing: $800. 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