employment skills crisis
Techies: 'We're worth more than last year'
News You're not alone…   Health warning to overweight IT managers   How the staffing crisis is deepening   Is the office getting you down? Almost two-thirds (65 per cent) of respondents said they are looking abroad for... [02 May 2008]
The Naked CIO: IT staff disloyalty
Comment The Naked CIO: Identity crisis The issues with offshoring and outsourcing that are having such an impact on IT employment are a result of this casual attitude in the UK's IT worker community. IT skills shortages are ever increasing. [31 Mar 2008]
IT skills shortage hits 10-year high
News You're not alone…   Health warning to overweight IT managers   Demand for tech workers hits six-year high   How the staffing crisis is deepening   How techie salaries are faring   Is the... [11 Feb 2008]
Thousands of tech newbies needed to plug skills gap
News You're not alone…   Health warning to overweight IT managers   Demand for tech workers hits six-year high   How the staffing crisis is deepening   How techie salaries are faring   Is the... [29 Jan 2008]
Demand for tech workers hits six-year high
News   How the staffing crisis is deepening&  How techie salaries are faring&  Offshoring still a hot potato   Banks hardest hit by staff crisis   Industry falling out of love with IT grads [08 Jan 2008]
IT skills 'vital for UK's future'
News ¦ How the staffing crisis is deepening¦ How techie salaries are faring¦ Offshoring still a hot potato ¦ Banks hardest hit by staff crisis ¦ Industry falling out of love with IT grads Speaking at a Westminster eForum event and referring... [29 Oct 2007]
"Rife" ageism causing IT skills crisis?
News Ageism has not only contributed to the UK's IT skills crisis, say readers of silicon.com, but is "rife" in the tech industry. Consultant Chris Stevens, a silicon.com reader from London, sees the skills crisis as the combined consequence of ageism... [21 Aug 2007]
Tech-savvy school-leavers 'lack basic skills'
News ¦ How the staffing crisis is deepening¦ How techie salaries are faring The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and Pertemps Employment Trends Survey found 92 per cent of employers are happy with the IT skills of GCSE students. [20 Aug 2007]
India faces offshore IT skills crisis by 2010
News He said in the report: "The skills and quality of the workforce need to be improved, since only 25 per cent of technical graduates and 10 to 15 per cent of general college graduates are suitable for employment in the offshore IT and BPO industries... [12 Dec 2005]
IT skills crisis: Quality staff are laughing... but lacking
News A skills crisis continues to grip the UK IT industry with highly qualified staff in increasing demand. Two new reports highlight the breadth of this skills crisis - one shows recruitment is slowing, while another attributes this to a lack of the... [15 Feb 2005]
Kids still shunning IT in worrying numbers
News Chapman attributes this in part to the image crisis within IT, blaming the perception - "not the reality" he added hastily - of 'geekiness' for the fact the numbers of boys, but particularly girls, is still low. [26 Aug 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 19.03.04
Round-Up What it doesn't acknowledge is that those jobs remain unfilled because of a lack of training and a growing skills crisis in the UK. Nowhere is the skills crisis more of an issue than in IT and the government did little to help the situation this... [19 Mar 2004]
The UK: There's no better place to work...
News And this is obvious nowhere more so than with the IT sector, where 'retraining' and 'skills crisis' are still phrases which crop up regularly during discussions on the state of the market. According to Des Browne, minister for work, the UK is... [17 Mar 2004]
India's skills shortage: A nice problem to have?
Comment The much-hyped skills crisis in the UK a couple of years ago was largely a result of people being too slow to retrain, or employees being too slow to realise the benefits of retraining staff. As such, India is faced with an enviable crisis - the... [18 Feb 2003]
Is the end in sight for Europe's skills crisis?
News The decreasing number of unfulfilled positions and positions offered also reflects the falling levels of employment for a sector hit hard by the economic downturn. Employment grew by four per cent last year, but Siedhoff said that this will... [14 May 2001]
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