soft skills
RSS soft skillsThe Weekly Round-Up: 10.11.06
Round-Up What's more there is also a skills shortage currently, so UK techies can pretty much take their pick of whatever highly paid job they fancy. There definitely isn't a skills shortage," wrote one reader, again contradicting The Oracle that is 'stats... [10 Nov 2006]
LogicaCMG opens offshore BPO centre in the Philippines
News Blackburn said the Philippines also offers a good cultural fit with the West, with strong English language skills. He said: "It gives us a soft-landing to China in the future. LogicaCMG is to open a further offshore outsourcing facility in the... [15 Sep 2006]
The ideal boss of the future: 50 and female
News Women aged over 50 will make ideal bosses in the office of the future, as they possess the 'soft' skills that will be needed to manage teams working flexibly and remotely. BT said the survey showed the importance of softer people management skills... [23 Aug 2006]
V&A Opts for ICE
White Paper In Tuition has been working with the V&A for some years - supplying core IT as well as some soft skills training. After many years of keeping its staff's skills and learning records on a specially constructed database, the V&A family of museums is... [23 Jun 2006]
Strategies for managing and controlling outsourced relationships
White Paper Here are a few key points:Businesses must retain key employees to act as "watchdogs" for the business as the need for vendor management increases.As internal staff compete with outsourced partners, they must adopt new technologies, tools... [25 May 2006]
10 things you should know about developing soft skills to advance your IT career
White Paper These pointers will help you focus on career-boosting soft skills, including communication, leadership, and relationship building. This list of essential soft skills provides a starting point for charting the nontechnical aspects of your... [23 May 2006]
Training on ITIL: Your Next Meal Ticket
White Paper But one thing they look for consistently: Soft skills. Today, being a functional expert isn't enough; soft skills are required to complement IT core competencies. It will take some deliberation on your career path and your wallet to decide on what... [09 Mar 2006]
Analysis: How does the CIO become the CEO?
Comment Betfair's Yu, speaking to silicon.com in an interview last year on the transition from the technology-focused CTO position to a wider operating COO role, said the "soft skills" are one of the biggest challenges. [06 Jan 2006]
Cooperative Competency as an Input Factor for Project Success
White Paper An objective of the paper is to widen debates from the relative merits of "Soft" behavioral skills versus "Hard" control skills. If senior executives continue to favor 'soft' cooperation skills more than 'hard' skills for managing projects, and if... [12 Dec 2005]
Just-in-Time Training - Using a Model of Project Results Versus Team Enablers to Identify Post-PMP Training
White Paper This paper confirms the importance of "soft" project management skills and concludes that one needs to train the appropriate people (those with some experience) at the appropriate time (when they have the need and interest) in the appropriate way... [12 Dec 2005]
IT skills gap on the decline
News Other 'soft' skills that IT workers must develop include sales and marketing, knowledge of their company's sector, interpersonal skills, customer handling and teamwork. Shortages in IT skills are becoming less common at most UK organisations but... [19 Oct 2005]
IBM blames job cuts on 'weak Europe'
News In this environment, actions to address structure, efficiency and matching our skills with the demand we see in local markets are required to stay competitive," Loughridge added. It is no secret that there has been an extended period of soft... [06 May 2005]
Leader: IT workers - don't get greedy
Leader One even warns of that perennial chestnut - the UK IT skills crisis - as a result of companies taking the shackles off big IT projects they have been holding back on for the last couple of years. It's good news for the IT workers with the skills in... [16 Feb 2005]
Firms face fight to keep hold of IT staff
News Pye said many employers are also overlooking a huge of the job market when trying to recruit people with wider business skills The people they want with those softer skills are often older but they still want that young Java programmer with three... [15 Feb 2005]
Lloyds TSB IT staff get "inflation-busting" pay rise
News A separate "performance pot" has also been allocated for group IT along with a review of training provision both for technical and "soft" skills and the work/life balance. IT staff at high street bank Lloyds TSB are set to buck the market trend... [25 Jan 2005]
