business skills workplace
Can we improve workplace skills in the UK?
News The parliamentary-industry group European Information Society Group (EURIM) is also hoping to affect workplace skills. As part of this effort, it is setting up a new National Employer Training Programme... [22 Mar 2005]
Skills Survey 2007: Staffing crisis deepens
News For the fifth year running, programming languages such as Java, C variants, HTML and XML are in shortest supply in the workplace, followed by web services, SOA skills such as J2EE and .NET, and then IT... [07 Aug 2007]
'Generation Facebook' IT skills wasted at work
News The vast majority (82 per cent) of 16- to 18-year-olds surveyed felt confident about their level of general IT skills going in to the workplace - a higher percentage than those who felt confident about... [03 Mar 2008]
Meta Group Quarterly: CIOs - coming out of a slump
Comment CIOs should prepare their organisations (IT and business) for new cultural and workplace challenges, especially for this new generation’s use of IT in a business context. Friends and a... [05 Apr 2004]
Know the skills in shortest supply? Think again...
Comment Seventy-three per cent of German respondents said project management skills were lacking in their workplace and 41.7 per cent said leadership skills were poor. In the UK, 37 per cent... [11 Mar 2002]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Know-nothing managers
Comment But, most of all, watch the tech skilled youngsters entering the workplace who come with new mindsets and modes of operation. I think we are about to see some radical changes in the workplace that will... [20 Aug 2007]
Business Management Software Enhances University Students' Education
White Paper To better prepare students for the workplace, the School of Business wanted to incorporate business management software into its curriculum. Today, students can gain... [11 Sep 2007]
South African Job Skills Agency Registers Gains of 82 Percent More Employers With Online Solution
White Paper South Africa's Policing, Security, Legal, Justice, and Correctional Services SETA (SASSETA) was founded in 2000 to facilitate and promote workplace skills development across South Africa. SASSETA... [17 Nov 2007]
Microsoft Office Specialist Success Story: Pepperdine University
White Paper The proliferation of computers in the workplace presents a new challenge to academic institutions seeking to prepare students for careers in this new environment. Two years ago, Pepperdine began requiring full-time MBA... [14 Sep 2006]
IBM Workplace Client Technology: Overview and Business Considerations
White Paper IBM Workplace arrives in offices that are already populated with substantial mounts of technology. It's a time consuming task - and one that few office workers have the skills or the aptitude for.... [09 Jan 2008]
CIO Jury: Graduates lack basic skills
News Graduates entering the workplace lack basic skills such as writing and arithmetic, and leave university with poor business awareness, according to CIOs. He said: "Individuals without... [04 Jan 2007]
Tech skills not valued by businesses
News Younger business leaders are also more likely to place greater value on tech skills in today's workplace, according to the results. A plethora of 'softer' skills - such... [14 Dec 2007]
Skills Survey 2007: Industry falling out of love with IT grads
News And there are other non-assessed course modules for picking up workplace skills, says Pears. Chapman believes "complexity" in today's IT world and the demand for "niche skills" means... [01 Oct 2007]
Take part in the silicon.com skills survey
News Nearly half of the 2007 survey respondents agreed or strongly agreed there is a skills crisis - and 45 per cent said there are IT jobs in their business they are unable to fill, and project management... [16 Jul 2008]
Top 10 skills stories of the year
News silicon.com rounds up five skills that IT chiefs should have sewn into their socks if they want to succeed in today's workplace. There were warnings that the future work life must be flexible if a wired... [17 Dec 2007]
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