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Males in tech willing to show off their wad

News More than half (62 per cent) say they would come clean about what is in their wallets to help women get equal pay, according to recruitment company Hudson. Male techies are willing to reveal the size of their pay packets if it helps women get a...

Tags: men, women, salary, pay

[02 May 2008]

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

News Tech recruitment company Computer People's IT Salary Review 2008 also found more than a third (39 per cent) of IT pros surveyed are actively looking to change jobs, with 27 per cent planning a switch in the next three months.

Tags: salary, jobs, skills

[02 May 2008]

National fraud reporting centre to arrive next year

News The National Fraud Strategic Authority will become operational later this year and recruitment for a National Lead Force to counter fraud is expected to be complete by the end of summer this year. A national centre to co-ordinate strategy for...

Tags: security, cyber crime, fraud

[28 Apr 2008]

Miserable at work? Live in London? Join the club

News Londoners are the most miserable at work, says a survey by HireScores, a recruitment agency-scoring website. More than 70 per cent of the capital's workers are already thinking about getting a new job from day one, while only 11 per cent of...

Tags: work, staff, london, survey

[21 Apr 2008]

Who's king of advertising? Web set to overtake TV

News Among the different sectors, recruitment led the market with 25.7 per cent market share, ahead of the automotive sector and technology, which overtook finance for the first time. The UK has the most developed online-advertising market in the world.

Tags: tv, 4od, online ads

[09 Apr 2008]

Warning over migrant tech skills shortage

News A report by consultancy the Centre for Economics and Business Research for recruitment company Harvey Nash into the impact of skilled migrant workers has predicted the IT, telecoms and transport sector will need an extra 19,000 skilled migrants...

Tags: skills, it workers, migrants, education

[25 Mar 2008]

India's Wipro to create hundreds of UK tech jobs

News But Premji dismissed claims this onshore expansion and local recruitment - at local western salary levels - will increase the company's cost base and hit profit margins. Indian IT giant Wipro is set to create hundreds of new jobs in the UK by...

Tags: wipro, premji, tax, consultancy

[20 Mar 2008]

FDM lands multimillion contract with FiReControl

News IT training and recruitment company FDM has been awarded a multimillion pound contract to train staff in England's Fire and Rescue Services. FDM will be the prime supplier of training for the FiReControl project, which aims to consolidate emergency...

Tags: firecontrol, training, eads, fire

[18 Mar 2008]

Are foreign imports hurting the UK tech industry?

News Short-sighted staffing decisions could be damaging the future development of the UK tech industry, the body representing IT recruiters has claimed. The number of tech workers from outside the EU entering the UK has increased by 14 per cent in the...

Tags: skills, graduates, offshore, eu

[12 Mar 2008]

Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 gets cautious welcome

Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 gets cautious welcome

News Alastair Behenna, CIO at recruitment company Harvey Nash, called it an "interesting release" but said the jury is still out, while Mike Roberts, IT director at private Harley Street doctors The London Clinic, said his organisation will wait until...

Tags: microsoft, cio jury, windows server 2008, cio

[28 Feb 2008]

Oracle contractor shortage predicted

Oracle contractor shortage predicted

News If you have Oracle skills 2008 could be something of a jackpot year with contractors in short supply as demand ramps up over the next 12 months, says IT recruitment company Technojobs. Oracle's success in growing its software business last year is...

Tags: oracle, jobs, skills, demand

[27 Feb 2008]

Banks lay off IT staff as big tech projects get the chop

News The latest quarterly report by executive recruitment company Heidrick & Struggles found a number of major investment banks have reduced IT staff, with cuts ranging from five to 20 per cent and spread around the globe.

Tags: recruitment, financial services, jobs, cio

[22 Feb 2008]

IT contractors upbeat about work

News Just nine per cent of contractors said they are very concerned about finding work in the current economic climate, according to research from IT recruitment company InterQuest Group. IT contractors are upbeat about job prospects despite talk of a...

Tags: techies, jobs, contractors, economic

[20 Feb 2008]

Second Life tackles virtual nuisances

News She cited the business benefits being realised by companies now using it as part of their recruitment strategy. Linden Lab's head of community, Robin Harper, told silicon.com that "emerging" behaviours deemed undesirable within the virtual world...

Tags: banks, gambling, second life, grey goo

[12 Feb 2008]

IT skills shortage hits 10-year high

News Just under 40 per cent of respondents indicated recruitment and retention issues, a significant increase on the 29 per cent reported last year. The IT sector is suffering its worst shortage of skills for a decade, according to new figures.

Tags: it, skills shortage, skills, workers

[11 Feb 2008]

Fall in students applying to be IT teachers

News Traditionally applications to PGCE courses can surge towards the end of students' degree courses in response to recruitment initiatives, according to the GTTR. The skills shortage could be set to take a turn for the worse if an early year drop in...

Tags: skills, techie, skills shortage, training

[07 Feb 2008]

Want to make CIO? Then don't go into tech…

News The research included interviews with bosses of IT recruitment companies which have been responsible for placing CIOs at around half of all Fortune Global 1,000 companies for the past few years. Aspiring CIOs should try to gain experience in non-IT...

Tags: cio, board, it, skills

[06 Feb 2008]

Stories of the month - January 2008

News Inevitably the post-Christmas January blues prompts many people into looking for a new career or job and recruitment agencies predicted a healthy flow of new candidates and continued high demand for tech skills in this analysis of the 2008 IT job...

Tags: cv, bill gates, shell, apple

[30 Jan 2008]

Stolen MoD laptop contains 600,000 records

News The MoD admitted the breach on Friday following the theft from a Royal Navy recruitment officer's car in Edgbaston in Birmingham on 9 January. A Ministry of Defence (MoD) laptop containing personal data about 600,000 people has been stolen in the...

Tags: mod, ico, security, data loss

[21 Jan 2008]

Execs trapped by 'glass walls'

News Only 20 per cent of the execs feel in complete control of their careers, according to the research which was conducted by online recruitment agency TheLadders.co.uk. He said in a statement: "In spite of a buoyant job market, many fear lack of...

Tags: career, cio, jobs, job

[21 Jan 2008]

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