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Techies: 'We're worth more than last year'

News Almost two-thirds (65 per cent) of respondents said they are looking abroad for employment opportunities, and 87 per cent of those said this would be to secure a better quality job. UK IT workers are not letting economic woes get them down...

Tags: salary, jobs, skills

[02 May 2008]

Indian techies snubbing US jobs in favour of home

News The survey of 667 IITians found this was being fuelled by shifting attitudes, between 1964 and 2001 60 per cent believed developed countries offered the best employment prospects but this fell to 51 per cent between 2002 and 2008, with 49 per...

Tags: it, india, outsourcing

[29 Apr 2008]

Miserable at work? Live in London? Join the club

News Yet UK earnings are high and jobs are plentiful: labour market figures show employment at its highest level since records began in 1971, average earnings have increased and vacancies are at a record high.

Tags: work, staff, london, survey

[21 Apr 2008]

Phishers attack social networking generation

News Symantec Australia managing director Craig Scroggie said social-networking sites are a treasure trove of personal data, listing information such as birthdays, location and employment history. The report reveals that, for the second half of 2007...

Tags: social networking, phishers

[09 Apr 2008]

Shell accused of keeping staff in dark over job losses

News Transferred Shell staff will not retain their existing employment contract rights and redundancy packages under their new employers, with Shell estimating existing rights will expire after about two years.

Tags: outsourcing, shell, ito

[03 Apr 2008]

ID cards chief defends u-turn

News It also emerged that employers of the "trusted workers" who will get the cards first, such as BAA, are likely to continue picking up the bill for pre-employment checks under the ID card system. James Hall, director of the Identity and Passport...

Tags: id cards, security, identity, british

[10 Mar 2008]

Facebook founder talks 'Google-isation' and aggressive growth…

News On whether Sandberg's employment will help advertiser confidence… Facebook has announced it has hired six-year Google veteran Sheryl Sandberg as its chief operating officer, a big move as the hot social network attempts to convince people it's here...

Tags: facebook, zuckerberg , google, role

[06 Mar 2008]

ID cards plan: Airport union wants answers

News We want the process to be transparent, they [the BAA] would have to be able to substantiate the reason why workers are not able to get employment or an ID card. If the cards are necessary for continued employment at BAA they also need to make sure...

Tags: id cards, no2id, card, cards

[20 Feb 2008]

Indian tech booming with a healthy spring in its step

News The Nasscom study found the tech industry has also fuelled a 36 per cent increase in direct exports and a boosted direct employment by a compound annual growth rate of 26 per cent over the past decade.

Tags: nasscom, economy, revenue, offshoring

[13 Feb 2008]

IT skills shortage hits 10-year high

News Perceived shortages in the industry jumped from 4.2 per cent last year to 6.8 per cent this year, the national survey of IT salaries and employment trends found. The annual poll of 244 organisations, which provides salary and employment details for...

Tags: it, skills shortage, skills, workers

[11 Feb 2008]

Thousands of tech newbies needed to plug skills gap

News The research, entitled UK IT & Telecoms Insights 2008, predicts the majority of employment growth for jobs in the sector will be in IT management, IT strategy and software - especially project management, systems architecture, business process...

Tags: jobs, telecoms, skills, industries

[29 Jan 2008]

Microsoft hires a new Scott for top spot

News Scott fills a position that has been open since November, when Microsoft terminated the employment of previous CIO Stuart Scott for violating company policies. Microsoft has said it has hired Tony Scott as CIO to head management of its internal IT...

Tags: microsoft, disney, cio, policies

[18 Jan 2008]

Demand for tech workers hits six-year high

News There was also a rise in employed workers looking for new jobs - up to 59,000 - according to the latest quarterly IT and comms sector group report from the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC).

Tags: skills, rec, salaries, it workers

[08 Jan 2008]

Which cities top the wealth league?

News The report, entitled Cities and the Role of the Public Sector in the Knowledge Economy, looks at the economic conditions of 56 major English cities in relation to the amount of 'high value knowledge intensive employment' in their public and...

Tags: earnings, knowledge economy, london, workers

[07 Jan 2008]

European software industry gets big thumbs up

News Bernard-Louis Roques, a general partner at Truffle Capital, said investment in R&D was "excellent news for European economies, which will profit greatly by increased employment throughout the software industry".

Tags: europe, awards, intellect, software

[22 Nov 2007]

IT skills 'vital for UK's future'

News Speaking at a Westminster eForum event and referring to non-manual skills such as those required in IT, Triesman said: "I'm not sure the government has been caught out but one thing we have let slip by is by concentrating on the change in the...

Tags: it skills, e-skills uk, it grads, skills gap

[29 Oct 2007]

Norwich Union automates HR enquiries

News Norwich Union's HR department has rolled out a search application to make it easier for staff to find out about employment policies themselves. The application allows staff to get information about straightforward policies, such as holiday...

Tags: helpdesk, hr, rac, norwich union

[15 Oct 2007]

Cisco says Scotland is the place for data centres

News But for those looking for increased employment in Scotland, Thomson is more cautious. Cisco is urging businesses to choose Scotland when they decide on a location for new data centre builds. The networking giant says that Scotland is more than...

Tags: scotland, datacentre

[26 Sep 2007]

Facebook banned by half of employers

News Details such as employment history and mobile numbers have been found on the site and could be used for identity theft or to launch corporate phishing attacks. Half of businesses are restricting employees' access to social networking site Facebook...

Tags: security, sophos, social networking, facebook

[21 Aug 2007]

"Rife" ageism causing IT skills crisis?

News There is just a refusal to use the perfectly adequate resources presently available in the technical employment market and a reluctance to provide either formal or on-the-job training for new starts. Ageism has not only contributed to the UK's IT...

Tags: skills survey, skills shortage, skills crisis, skills

[21 Aug 2007]

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