A couple of weeks ago, we ran a poll asking whether you seek feedback from HR or hiring managers after you've been turned down for a job. Only 18 percent either speak to HR or the hiring manager to ask why they didn't get the job. But another 30 percent don't try at all. And more than half of you - 52 percent - said you'd like to - except no one gets back to you when you try. That's too bad. A company gains when they return those calls. They help their reputation and their managers improve their reputation. Those are good things - and probably more important in the long run than the time and any legal worries they have.
Tech professionals can expect to see starting salaries increase an average of 3.4 percent next year. Robert Half Technology says base compensation should rise for those in high-demand career fields: Applications and Web development, data security and ERP. Plus, more social media and a need for customer-facing technologies have created additional demand. Industries who'll particularly need IT help: business services, transportation and healthcare. Half says an increasing focus on improving efficiency, managing assets and securing data has increased demand - which means pay goes up, too.
A new survey says IT managers may have more money to spend next year, and back-burnered projects may finally get some attention. The survey by Wedbush was published on ZDNet. So, what's on CIO's minds? Sixty six percent say implementation of new software platforms is critical. That's up from 47 percent in the second quarter. Network deployments in security, routing and switching, collaboration and performance management are all top priorities. Video and voice collaboration are also critical. And slightly more than half of the tech executives said shifting data warehouse projects to appliance deployments was a big priority. Remember - what CIOs are thinking of implementing is where they're probably thinking of hiring.
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For thousands of years, nomadic herdsmen have roamed the harsh, semi-arid lowlands that stretch across 80 percent of Kenya and 60 percent of Ethiopia. Descendants of the oldest tribal societies in the world, they survive thanks to the animals they raise and the crops they grow, their travels determined by the search for water and grazing lands.
These herdsmen have long been accustomed to adapting to a changing environment. But in recent years, they have faced challenges unlike any in living memory: As temperatures in the region have risen and water supplies have dwindled, the pastoralists have had to range more widely in search of suitable water and land. That search has brought tribal groups in Ethiopia and Kenya in increasing conflict, as pastoral communities kill each other over water and grass.
"When the Water Ends," a 16-minute video produced by Yale Environment 360 in collaboration with MediaStorm, tells the story of this conflict and of the increasingly dire drought conditions facing parts of East Africa. To report this video, Evan Abramson, a 32-year-old photographer and videographer, spent two months in the region early this year, living among the herding communities. He returned with a tale that many climate scientists say will be increasingly common in the 21st century and beyond - how worsening drought in parts of Africa, the Middle East, and elsewhere will pit group against group, nation against nation. As one UN official told Abramson, the clashes between Kenyan and Ethiopian pastoralists represent "some of the world's first climate-change conflicts."
But the story recounted in "When the Water Ends" is not only about climate change. It's also about how deforestation and land degradation - due in large part to population pressures - are exacting a toll on impoverished farmers and nomads as the earth grows ever more barren.
The video focuses on four groups of pastoralists - the Turkana of Kenya and the Dassanech, Nyangatom, and Mursi of Ethiopia - who are among the more than two dozen tribes whose lives and culture depend on the waters of the Omo River and the body of water into which it flows, Lake Turkana. For the past 40 years at least, Lake Turkana has steadily shrunk because of increased evaporation from higher temperatures and a steady reduction in the flow of the Omo due to less rainfall, increased diversion of water for irrigation, and upstream dam projects. As the lake has diminished, it has disappeared altogether from Ethiopian territory and retreated south into Kenya. The Dassanech people have followed the water, and in doing so have come into direct conflict with the Turkana of Kenya.
The result has been cross-border raids in which members of both groups kill each other, raid livestock, and torch huts. Many people in both tribes have been left without their traditional livelihoods and survive thanks to food aid from nonprofit organizations and the UN.
The future for the tribes of the Omo-Turkana basin looks bleak. Temperatures in the region have risen by about 2 degrees F since 1960. Droughts are occurring with a frequency and intensity not seen in recent memory. Areas once prone to drought every ten or eleven years are now experiencing a drought every two or three. Scientists say temperatures could well rise an additional 2 to 5 degrees F by 2060, which will almost certainly lead to even drier conditions in large parts of East Africa.
In addition, the Ethiopian government is building a dam on the upper Omo River - the largest hydropower project in sub-Saharan Africa - that will hold back water and prevent the river's annual flood cycles, upon which more than 300,000 tribesmen in Ethiopia and 500,000 in Kenya depend for cultivation, grazing, and fishing.
The herdsmen who speak in this video are caught up in forces over which they have no real control. Although they have done almost nothing to generate the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming, they may already be among its first casualties. "I am really beaten by hunger," says one elderly, rail-thin Nyangatom tribesman. "There is famine - people are dying here. This happened since the Turkana and the Kenyans started fighting with us. We fight over grazing lands. There is no peace at all."