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Microsoft Online Services Customer Story: Bryant University

whitepaper Unfortunately, maintaining this service for graduates wasn't economically feasible for the university. Bryant University heard from many alumni that they wanted to keep using the same Microsoft Exchange Server-based messaging solution that they had...

Tags: storage management

[02 May 2008]

Indian techies snubbing US jobs in favour of home

News Indian tech graduates are increasingly turning their back on western countries in favour of finding work at home. Graduates from the Indian Institutes of Technology so called 'IITians' told Evalueserve that India was fast catching up with the US...

Tags: it, india, outsourcing

[29 Apr 2008]

Help Desk Renaissance: A New Understanding of the Importance of Technical Support Services

whitepaper These issues include an increase in technological frustration by American consumers, a back lash of American consumers against companies using foreign call centers, a reduction of experienced workers as the "Baby boomers" retire, and an...

Tags: help desk

[11 Apr 2008]

Photos: High-tech Bangalore

Photo The company hired 15,000 engineering graduates in the last year alone and the starting salary for those recruits is around $750 per month. The company is expanding so fast that the company must induct and start to train 300 to 350 new graduates...

Tags: bangalore, wipro

[02 Apr 2008]

India's Wipro to create hundreds of UK tech jobs

News Key factors in the choice of location will be local access to science and engineering graduates and government tax breaks. Indian IT giant Wipro is set to create hundreds of new jobs in the UK by taking advantage of government tax breaks and...

Tags: wipro, premji, tax, consultancy

[20 Mar 2008]

UK 'seriously underestimating' tech skills crisis

News Azim Premji, chairman of Bangalore-based Wipro, said poor maths education from primary school onwards is one of the fundamental causes of the shortage of science and engineering graduates in Western countries.

Tags: premji, wipro, education, engineers

[18 Mar 2008]

Are foreign imports hurting the UK tech industry?

News Swain said there has been a lot of soul searching about the recent decline in the number of computer science graduates from UK universities but added: "Is it any wonder so few students are choosing IT when entry-level jobs are being sent offshore...

Tags: skills, graduates, offshore, eu

[12 Mar 2008]

'Generation Facebook' IT skills wasted at work

News According to the research, the majority (85 per cent) of school leavers and university graduates learnt to use PowerPoint software while in education but only slightly more than a third (39 per cent) reported using it at work.

Tags: skills, facebook, social networking, kids

[03 Mar 2008]

Italian University Reduces IT Support Costs by More Than One-Tenth

whitepaper It has 70 teachers and 450 students, offering specialist graduates to local agribusiness. The Arrigo Serpieri Institute of Higher Education in Agricultural Technology is located in Bologna, Italy. They needed a more efficient solution that didn't...

Tags: monitoring systems

[28 Feb 2008]

IT Consulting Firms Expand Capacity by Recruiting College Graduates

whitepaper Faced with a dearth of available, well-trained IT professionals, some partners have extended their organizational growth model by hiring and training new college graduates, in addition to experienced professionals.

Tags: business management

[08 Feb 2008]

Law firm beefs up search power

Case Study She explained that the recent influx of graduates was influential in bringing in the technology. European law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse (FFW) has improved access to its vast wealth of legal knowledge with an upgraded web-based search system.

Tags: web 2.0, search, legal, lawyer

[18 Jan 2008]

Which cities top the wealth league?

News These areas have low numbers of graduates, relatively low pay and low skill levels, according to The Work Foundation. The rise of high tech 'knowledge' jobs is helping break down England's traditional North/South wealth dynamic.

Tags: earnings, knowledge economy, london, workers

[07 Jan 2008]

NHS trusts outsource financials and procurement IT

News As part of the deal, the two organisations will implement a two-year graduate recruitment programme, where graduates spend the first year at IB Solutions, before going in-house with the NEP. A consortium of NHS trusts and Strategic Health...

Tags: outsourcing, shared services, nhs, programme

[21 Dec 2007]

Top 10 skills stories of the year

News The quality of computer science graduates is falling, according to results from this year's silicon.com Skills Survey. Tech skills issues were never far from the headlines in 2007. Age-old debates turning up the volume this year include the IT...

Tags: skills, flexible working, wfh, techies

[17 Dec 2007]

Dear silicon.com... 'me hearties shun Vista… techies on the move?… bosses out of tune

Comment Most universities have moved away from teaching essential and widely used skills like COBOL, leaving the graduates without skills to replace these retiring experts. Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest...

Tags: vista, desktops, jobs, music

[06 Dec 2007]

Fresh tech talent in demand next year

News Alex Farrell, director of the company, said in a statement: "The results of this survey confirm our beliefs that it's still a strong sector from an IT perspective and graduates are still very much in demand.

Tags: skills, recruitment, graduates, survey

[23 Nov 2007]

Gov't launches tech talent search

News It's hoped the Civil Service Technology in Business Fast Stream will successfully recruit up to 20 of the best graduates from around the UK this year.silicon.com Public Sector The graduates will be placed in central government departments where...

Tags: training, graduates, it, cabinet office

[18 Oct 2007]

Skills crisis? What skills crisis?

News He blamed the end of the dot-com boom "in IT attractiveness" for a drop in the number of graduates, and said new technologies make it much easier to integrate teams working around the world. He added: "There's not a crisis but we can do better...

Tags: offshore, skills

[15 Oct 2007]

Nandan Nilekani

AS Profile Panellists specifically commented on Infosys's decision to bring in talent from around the world, recruiting graduates from the US, UK and Europe. Nilekani stood down as CEO and MD of Infosys in June to become co-chairman of the board of directors...

[12 Oct 2007]

UK tech skills crisis 'exaggerated'

News Graduates in particular are looking for moves into various industries, including financial services, and the question is whether companies are then making best use of that talent. The UK is not suffering from an IT skills crisis despite the falling...

Tags: techies, skills, cio jury

[11 Oct 2007]

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