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Dear silicon.com... Tech skills slump, gov't snooping, Segway safety
Comment When you look at what the government mandates as IT training in schools there is no wonder that we have a shortage of entry-level candidates. The so-called skills slump in the UK has attracted a lot of attention this week, with many readers blaming... [22 May 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Tech history repeats itself
Comment He then went on to complain these young candidates used texting and Facebook to communicate instead of email. Written in the bar of a hotel in Buckhead, Atlanta, Georgia and despatched via a free wi-fi service in the lobby. [25 Feb 2008]
Dear silicon.com...Naked CIO, silver skills and ID card anger…
Comment If candidates can deal directly with companies recruiting and get the honesty they deserve then hopefully they will repay the favour. I feel that employers/agencies are trying to find candidates with specific software/application experience and... [14 Feb 2008]
How to prepare for the interview
Comment I do truly believe that all top-level headhunters want the same thing: for our clients to be delighted by their experience of working with us; to think our process has been thorough and fair and, of course, that ultimately we are presenting... [08 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.11.07
Round-Up More than 75 per cent of candidates joining dot-com start-ups through IT staffing company ReThink Recruitment have forgone up to a third of their salary in exchange for shares. At some point before he went mental and started talking to horses... [16 Nov 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 29.06.07
Round-Up In one instance e-ballot papers suffered a glitch whereby the wrong party logos, those of the likeliest competitors for power, Labour and the Conservatives, were mixed up and appeared next to the wrong candidates' names. [29 Jun 2007]
Brampton Factor: Ageism myths
Comment Undoubtedly there will be recruiters who welcome candidates at the extremes of ages. It is sound common sense to buck the trend to find good candidates. Ageism in IT is much like other kinds of prejudice, says Martin Brampton - most of what we... [22 May 2007]
Leader: Biometrics - good or bad?
Leader Yet talk about biometrics being used to evaluate candidates in a job interview or on an ID card and many - even some who support their use in airports - will object. It's always interesting to see where technologies are embraced by the mass market... [07 Feb 2007]
View from Stanford: 'Offshoring works for us'
Comment When we run an ad for a senior technical position, it's extraordinary the number of international candidates that apply. The number of qualified international candidates in the computer science field is overwhelming. [21 Nov 2006]
Will your next CIO be a non-techie?
Comment As business-savvy becomes central to the CIO role, many companies are looking for candidates with non-technical backgrounds - and techies are required to widen their experience. That means executive recruiters are looking in many cases beyond the... [18 Oct 2006]
Profile: CIO from the business
Comment As business-savvy becomes essential to the CIO role, candidates are coming from a wide variety of backgrounds - some more technical, some more business-focused. As a companion to a feature piece on this topic, Kate Bulkley speaks to a woman who... [18 Oct 2006]
Profile: CIO from techie roots
Comment As business-savvy becomes essential to the CIO role, candidates are coming from a wide variety of backgrounds - some more technical, some more business-focused. As a companion to a feature piece on this topic, Kate Bulkley speaks to a man who moved... [18 Oct 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 29.09.06
Round-Up Statistically this implicates around one in four men (think about it).so have a good look around your office and try to work out which of your colleagues are the likely candidates. Shock horror! News broke this week that is likely to shake society... [29 Sep 2006]
The Executive CIO: David Weymouth, ex-CIO Barclays
Comment It wasn't until Matthew Barrett came in as Barclays CEO that the bank created a full-time CIO role but Weymouth put forward a proposal for it and, after competing against other candidates, was appointed in 2000. [21 Sep 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Smart but not corporate
Comment Even the CEO seems to be getting a bit pinned down by the zeal and focus of some candidates. Written in my home office after some recent experiences in the US and a heavy week of meetings in the UK. Dispatched via my home optical local loop... [17 Mar 2006]
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