recruiting in news
HMRC and MoD face action over data blunders
News The MoD's loss of 600,000 personnel and new recruit details was also heavily criticised in a report by Sir Edmund Burton, who blamed poor management by the Army Recruiting and Training Division and its contractor EDS. [25 Jun 2008]
Tech-savvy recruited for organised crime
News Eva Chen, chief executive officer of Trend Micro, said: "We do see recruitment in universities - so-called 'companies' recruiting talent for hacking. We've seen them recruiting in China. Genes said: "Yes, they put them through university, and they... [23 Jun 2008]
NHS CIO jumps ship
News The department is currently in the process of recruiting a director-general-level CIO to act as a full time replacement for Granger. The NHS CIO is to step down at the end of April, just months after taking the post. [15 Apr 2008]
In demand: Tech needs web services skills
News Because these skills are in short supply, organisations will also need to invest in developing them in-house as well as recruiting others. Businesses need to recruit more tech professionals who can help develop an infrastructure that caters for the... [25 Mar 2008]
MoD admits to more laptop thefts
News He said the Royal Navy had completed its investigation into what had happened and was considering what action needed to be taken against the recruiting officer who had the laptop stolen from his car in Edgbaston in Birmingham on 9 January. [22 Jan 2008]
Fresh tech talent in demand next year
News A vote by silicon.com's CIO Jury IT user panel suggests employers are not having trouble recruiting grads with the right skills for their departments - a result which flies in the face of widespread perception of an industry-wide skills crisis. [23 Nov 2007]
Staff deserting UK call centres
News Attrition in UK call centres has risen for a fifth year running as staff leave because of low salaries and companies experience difficulties recruiting new workers. Almost three-quarters (71 per cent) of the 200 call centre operations that took... [19 Nov 2007]
BT: Job cuts on the way?
News The spokesperson said other divisions, such as BT Openreach, had recently been recruiting more staff and even claimed next week's results might show the company had grown overall. BT is to announce a number of job losses when it issues its latest... [02 Nov 2007]
IT skills 'vital for UK's future'
News Herbert added that, while large companies such as IBM and Microsoft tend not to have problems recruiting, smaller companies are struggling. UK governments have let slip opportunities to narrow the shortage in IT skills, according to a prominent... [29 Oct 2007]
UK tech skills crisis 'exaggerated'
News With IT no longer on the 'in high demand' band for non-nationals, recruiting staff from overseas is going to become more difficult. Alan Shrimpton, IT director at Avon & Somerset Constabulary, said: "Apart from one specialist skill where we simply... [11 Oct 2007]
Skills Survey 2007: Staffing crisis deepens
News Just 14 per cent had problems recruiting back in 2003. The IT skills crisis is deepening, according to exclusive silicon.com research. The ninth annual Skills Survey reveals employers are finding it increasingly difficult to fill IT positions in... [07 Aug 2007]
Forrester: Search blogs for tech talent
News Among the sources that companies should tap into for IT staff, says Forrester in its research report, Recruiting IT Talent: Adjusting To A Hot Market, are academia, MBAs and super-users within an organisation and even blogs and social networks. [27 Jul 2007]
How businesses get mobile working wrong
News In general, good mobile workers are extrovert, independent, resilient and self-motivated, so organisations must look out for these attributes when recruiting, the report revealed. Businesses are not reaping the rewards of mobile working, such as... [25 Jul 2007]
IT failing in 'grab a grad' bids
News Nearly all respondents (92 per cent) said psychometric testing is "useful" or "very useful" as an aid to the recruitment process and 91 per cent said the tests have "some" or a "very strong" influence on recruiting decisions. [10 Jul 2007]
Child Support Agency IT woes continue
News The report said: "[The DWP] needs to strengthen its independent in-house IT capacity to challenge the validity of assurances given by IT suppliers and keep up to date with both technical and commercial developments in the IT industry by recruiting... [05 Jul 2007]
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