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RSS skills in newsRecession fuels fears of UK jobs being sent offshore
News With recession leading businesses to cut IT costs as much as they can, tech workers are increasingly feeling the impact of offshoring, results from the exclusive 2009 silicon.com Skills Survey show. Around two-fifths (43... [30 Nov 2009]
Women in IT: Tech has an image problem
News The lack of women in IT is bad news for the industry and while the tech world doesn't discriminate against them, it does have an image problem that is off-putting to females, according to silicon.com's exclusive 2009... [26 Nov 2009]
IT skills shortage squashed by recession?
News The icy winds of economic gloom have put paid to talk of a tech skills shortage - at least for now, the exclusive 2009 silicon.com Skills Survey can reveal. The result returns demand for IT workers back... [25 Nov 2009]
Recession hitting low paid IT jobs
News In the main IT industry wages look to be weathering the economic storm, according to this year's silicon.com Skills Survey, but there are signs that first-time tech workers are taking a hit. Just over a quarter of IT... [24 Nov 2009]
Pay for IT chiefs weathers the storm
News According to the exclusive silicon.com 2009 Skills Survey a greater proportion of IT cheifs are now taking home bigger pay packets than in last year's survey. In 2008 more than a third (35 per cent) reported taking home... [23 Nov 2009]
Revealed: The apps you'll have on your phone in 2012
News Gartner said mobile web systems have the potential to offer a good return on investment, because they involve much lower development costs than native code, reuse many existing skills and tools, and can be agile - both... [18 Nov 2009]
'Don't just outsource the problem when you outsource IT'
News The outsourcer is being contracted to provide skills and expertise but the local authority still needs to provide vital input from its service areas into defining, training and testing systems," the report said. [10 Nov 2009]
Full steam ahead for plans to cut off file-sharers
News Secretary of state for business, innovation and skills Peter Mandelson has reiterated the government's 'three strikes and you're out' plan to cut off illegal file-sharers' internet access. Speaking at a cabinet creative... [29 Oct 2009]
Monitoring staff email and internet: The dos and don'ts
News Some of the reasons an organisation might want to monitor staff use of email and internet sound obvious - assessing skills or performance or keeping tabs on time spent on non-work activities, for instance, or preventing... [22 Oct 2009]
Where to make the biggest bucks working in IT
News Karen Price, CEO of e-skills UK, said salaries for IT roles across all sectors still compare favourably to those of other professions. IT workers chasing the big bucks should pay close attention to which sector they... [01 Oct 2009]
Are dinosaur managers and poor teaching holding back Digital Britain?
News But it warned the UK's potential around technology - and thus the potential of IT to drive economic recovery - is being held back by the current crop of business leaders who are failing to 'get IT', and also by the failure of the... [23 Sep 2009]
The right skills to boost your pay packet unveiled
News Thinking of brushing up on your IT skills? According to new research, techies working in IT management should consider brushing up on their outsourcing expertise: those with skills in that area make the... [22 Sep 2009]
Tech skills: UK Plc told to get its hands dirty and help students
News While the CBI report also notes the recession has "undoubtedly" reduced the number of IT jobs available, it adds: "There is a strong demand from the business community for graduates and postgraduates with Stem skills,... [21 Sep 2009]
Are your software licences up to date - and does your CFO know?
News CFOs can also help their IT counterparts by making sure the IT department has sufficient human and financial resources so that the right skills and processes are in place to avoid software compliance issues arising in... [04 Sep 2009]
IT graduates failing to make the business grade, say UK tech chiefs
News Broadly speaking, the role of staff in our IT department is to work with the business to deliver the systems that the business requires… so when looking for IT graduates we are looking for technical skills, leadership... [02 Sep 2009]
