Elearning! Magazine: Building Smarter Companies via Learning & Workplace Technologies.
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News $90,500 Median salary for sofware developer The Secrets to Employee Engagement Determination and confdence in reaching work goals is the top employee engagement aspect according to the Society for Human Resource Management. The top fve engagement drivers include relationships, opportunities to grow, contribution to goals and effort. EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT ASPECTS A new report indicates that while women still only make up 31 percent of the I.T. workforce, this year has marked some notable job growth for women in the feld. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, 46 percent of new tech positions have been awarded to women since the start of 2013. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate for all tech professionals was 3.5 percent in the frst quarter, compared to 7.7 percent for the overall U.S. workforce. The last time unemployment for I.T. professionals was above the national average was the frst quarter of 2004. Technology consulting continues to dominate the job growth in I.T., with more than 17,000 new positions added since the start of 2013. But other areas, including manufacturing, data processing and hosting, continued to lose jobs since the start of the year. Several other jobs had unemployment rates below the national average for I.T., including Web developers (1.0 percent), network architects (1.7 percent), software developers (2.2 percent) and database administrators (2.8 percent). The number of layoffs and discharges in the frst two months of 2013 averaged 386,500 for employees in professional and business services. —Source: www.dice.com 2011 2012 Determined and confdent of meeting work goals 83% 83% Relationship with co-workers 76% 7% Opportunities to use skills/abilities Women Gain in Tech Employment Top Five Answers 74% 75% Contribution of work to organization's business goals 71% 72% Relationship with immediate supervisor 73% 71% Putting all effort into work 70% 71% Additionally, 81 percent of U.S. employees reported overall satisfaction with their current job, with 38 percent indicating they were "very satisfed" and 43 percent "somewhat satisfed." That number compares well with similar numbers between 2004 and 2008, but falls short of 2009's 86 percent. —Source: Society for Human Resource Management 81% of U.S. employees are satisfed with their current job —SHRM People on the Move Senior research associate PETER KRENSKY has joined the Aberdeen Group's new Business Planning and Execution (BPE) practice. Krensky holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Amherst College. Specifc topic areas to be addressed by BPE include: Business Process Management (BPM), Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), Professional Services Automation (PSA), Project Management, ERP, as well as fnancial planning, budgeting, and forecasting. 14 June / July 2013 Elearning! DEV GANESAN, president and CEO of Aptara, has joined the Board of Advisors of C2 technologies. A seasoned executive with a strong entrepreneurial drive and long track record of corporate operational and fnancial success, Ganesan has served on the Board of Advisors of several other fastgrowth companies in the Washington, D.C., and Silicon Valley areas. He most recently led Aptara's expansion and evolution from a technology vendor to a digital solutions partner that serves the 10 largest publishers in the world. LAURA MCCLUER has joined the Ancile Solutions, Inc., as director of Partnerships and Alliances. She will be responsible for identifying and developing key partnerships to expand Ancile's domestic and global market presence. Most recently she served as a vice president at CA Technologies, Inc. Previously, she held positions at Novell, Inc., Intermec Corp., Attachmate Corp. and Mosaix. SARAH STEPHENS, an acknowledged information services expert and most recently chief knowledge offcer of Sutherland LLP, has joined LAC Group's consulting team to deliver library research, expense, and collection management strategies to its growing roster of leading law frms. She will work with clients to redefne informa- tion services, collections, and space, bringing additional value to their parent organizations. Stephens will be located in the Washington, D.C., metro area but will advise LAC clients worldwide. Assuming the corporate leadership roles at E-Learning Mind are Capas executives ANDREW FAYAD as CEO and managing partner, and SIMON CASUTO as president and managing partner. The company's new director of e-learning and former ELearning Mind CEO is Jack Mahklouf. Prior to E-Learning Mind, Fayad and Casuto were colleagues at S&P; Capital IQ. Fayad also led corporate member development at Axial Inc.