Focusing your job search on the employers that need your skills the most will improve your chances of connecting with key hiring-decision makers and landing a new job.

On February 20, IT manager and columnist Ron Nutter was called into his boss's office and told he was being let go -- that day. Once the initial shock wore off, Nutter launched an aggressive search for employment in the US area of Kansas City. Over the next 76 days, Nutter applied for 85 jobs, and had 16 interviews before landing a new position. He chronicled the job search in a daily blog. Now that he has had some time to reflect on the experience, Nutter offers these 20 tips for surviving a layoff.

IT department culture is probably not a match with overall corporate culture in about half of all businesses

The SVP of Technology and Operations is emerging as a cool new role -- and career path -- for CIOs

We spoke to Clyde Williams, Infrastructure Systems Manager for Southeast Alabama Medical Center; Walt Cornelison, Director of Information Technology for Tropitone Furniture - a manufacturer or high-end outdoor furniture; Jason Ford, CTO of BlackMesh Hosting and Solution - a managed hosting and managed services firm; Keith Parnell, CIO of Stratum Marketing - a marketing communications agency. Here's how our conversation went:

What's it take to be a superstar CIO? One thing is an entourage of trusted advisers, including project managers, recruiters, publicists and troubleshooters who keep top CIOs at the top of their game

By paying attention to the language hiring managers use in job ads and the emphasis they place on certain skills and requirements, you can determine more quickly and easily what the job is really about, and thus, what to highlight on your resume to get noticed

There is a war of attrition taking place in the workplace between the 'baby boomers' -- the landmark generation that entered the workplace in the sixties -- and the 'millennials' -- their modern equivalents, born after 1980 and who have never known a world without information technology.

Chorus, a provider of clinical, practice management and financial software for health care providers, closed its Hasbrouck Heights, N.J., headquarters in early June and its other office, in Stafford, Texas (outside of Houston), in early July; that means all of the company's 35 employees and full-time consultants work at home.

Pity the poor IT managers.

Ninety-nine per cent of companies her organization comes across don't have a proper asset management process in place, according to Elisabeth Vanderveldt, VP of business development, with Canada-based IT services and consulting firm Conamex International Solutions. That's a staggering number, considering the value that lifecycle management can bring to an organization. And it's indicative of the widespread lack of respect for this important aspect of IT operations.