Recruiting

The August hiring forecast from the Bureau of Labor Statistics reveals the loss of some 900 jobs in data processing, hosting and related services.

Median pay for STEM jobs increased 2.1% in 2018 to $84,880 from a year earlier, while total employment in the sector swelled to 9.09 million.

Software developers continue to be the most sought-after IT workers, as the unemployment rate for technology occupations in the United States fell to a 20-year low of 1.3 percent in May.

Software and application developers continue to be the most in-demand tech talent sought by employers, as the nation saw unemployment numbers drop to its lowest point in half a century last month.

Skills in data analytics are becoming among the most sought-after in the job market, as a growing number of organizations try to gain increased value from their information assets.

Organizations need to increasingly lure talent away from current jobs – and they better be prepared to shell out at least 15 percent more in compensation to grab that talent.

Economists at the hiring website Indeed say user data indicate that the technology job market may not be living up to some expectations about how hard it is to find workers.

The processes and structures which have been effective in building capacity in the past won’t be able to address the market today.

For insurers to lure these professionals successfully in 2019, they must provide clear career paths that leave room for personal growth as well.

Organizations will be looking to hire a range of IT professionals, with skills related to data management among the most desired.

Only 6,000 new jobs were added in software development, IT services and manufacturing, while nationally the total number of tech jobs fell 18,000 for the year.

There’s a war for talent and companies are incorporating new tech to attract workers, says TIAA's Angie Wesley.

Organizations are desperate to find data scientists and analysts that can help them get the most value from data. These questions can help seperate the best candidates from the rest.

Coming off its best hiring month in July, the U.S. information technology sector was unable to maintain that positive momentum in August, and overall hiring is now essentially flat.

Demand for data scientists is at an all-time high and will continue to be at record levels in the coming years while these professionals become more scarce.

Gamma Iota Sigma is looking to attract students from outside risk management and actuarial programs, tapping into marketing, tech and more.

Powerful technologies get all the hype, but human and organizational factors are usually the most important in successful transformations.

The multiline insurer is giving developers an opportunity to solve business problems in a two-day event.

The increased pressure to 'go digital' has attracted new blood ready and willing to take part in the transformation of the industry.

Skill shortages, funding issues and other structural problems hamper efforts to modernize systems and processes for insurance companies.