I think gaps in employment are often given an incorrect air of suspicion... Career breaks, maternity/raising a child, long term illness, travelling, redundancy, full time study are all valid reasons...

David.Poole (1/27/2016)

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When I'm recruiting I scan for the skills I want, the context and then length of time in each position and any suspicious gaps.

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Curious what constitutes a...

I've never understood why Microsoft charge per core or per CPU anyway. Do they incur extra costs if a customer has 8 cores rather than 4? If you rent a...

roger.plowman (1/11/2016)

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100 hours? You're off by an order of magnitude.

Assuming you spend a full year working @ 40 hours/week that's 2,080 hours.

It takes *at least* two months (8 weeks or...

I worked at a place which involved leaving office at 7-8pm most nights. No overtime or time in lieu. The worst thing is that the culture was such that i...

I'm convinced someone somewhere carries out an FA cup style draw every couple of years, with a pot of actions, pot of methods, and a pot of buzzwords

The results are...

Personal experience of senior management's lazy and unimaginative 10 ways of shrinking the IT budget:

1. Redundancies

2. Redundancies

3. Redundancies

4. Redundancies

5. Redundancies

6. Redundancies

7. Redundancies

8. Redundancies

9. Redundancies

10. Redundancies

Is it really about cost saving and dumping risk responsibility elsewhere? Has disk or tape suddenly started to become more expensive after years of being cheap? Haven't companies always had...