It was interesting to me that it was considered the same as using the telephone on the job. But what about what companies spend on additional bandwidth?

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Companies are being realistic now. They know they have to lock up great talent. It's very difficult to find the right people at the right price.

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Between the growing need for information security experts, highly-knowledgeable ERP and Internet-based technology professionals, and advanced healthcare technology to help answer the call of aging baby boomers, our outlook for the technology employment market and its wages is optimistic for 2006.

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You'll be a knowledge-based economy if you continue to attract companies that invest in talent and technology.

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Anyone who has worked for a big brand-name company with a good reputation, and was successful there, has a real advantage, especially in moving to a different industry. Hiring someone is really a leap of faith, and interviewers know they can only tell so much about you from the interviewing process, so having that brand name in your background is important. It's almost like an endorsement.

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Clinical research professionals in particular are seeing major jumps in wages, as orders for skilled workers in the biotech and pharmaceutical fields grow with industry demands and market dynamics for pipeline improvement.

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I'm not going to call it robust but we're seeing manufacturing hiring across the board. We have a unit that focuses on the blue collar side and it's been on a roll for three or four years now.

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Employers are more apt these days to consider candidates from other industries. Pharmaceutical companies are hiring, for example, and they have changed their outlook. They used to want only people with pharmaceutical experience, but now they're looking at people with strong brand-building experience, regardless of what industry they come from.

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Increased IT spending, the imminent medical needs of baby boomers, and hungry drug pipelines have improved job opportunities for technology and healthcare professionals.

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