The sharp rise in demand for IT skills throughout 2007 is well and truly in retreat according to the latest figures from the Olivier Job Index.
Indian tech graduates are increasingly turning their back on western countries in favour of finding work at home.
Google Australia will this week run recruitment drives in Australian capital cities as the local arm of the software giant searches the nation for new engineering talent.
Outsourcer Satyam has announced a major investment in Geelong, Victoria's second city, where a full-scale campus will eventually provide training and global career opportunities for up to 2000 recent university graduates.
Demand remains strong for software development and engineering skills, with many employers focusing on recent graduates to shore up their productivity through tough times.
Australian vendors, recruiters and government agencies arrived in London over the weekend armed with a growing list of IT specialists from the old country needed Down Under, as part of the federal government-hosted Australia Needs Skills expo.
February's 7.1 percent slump in IT Internet Job advertisements doesn’t mean the skills crisis will soon be a bad memory.
The outsourcing and services vendor announced yesterday that it was looking to fill as many as 100 new IT positions in Canberra as part of its support services contract with the Australian Department of Defence.
IT jobs lead the February fall of online job advertisements according to the latest Olivier Job Index, released over the weekend.
NAB yesterday told its employees which of its IT jobs will be offshored, after the bank took the decision to outsource some of its tech staff last year.
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, IT recruitment company Technojobs has said.
Bill Gates points to Yahoo's engineers as the key thing that makes Yahoo worth more than US$40 billion to his company.
The government yesterday announced plans to bolster Australia's skilled migration program by providing an additional 6,000 places -- potentially a boon for the skills-starved tech industry -- but some believe the scheme doesn't go far enough.
While individual job agencies are reporting business as usual, the overall picture is not so rosy.
There's nothing wrong with senior Australian engineers, they just lack "world class experience", according to Google Australia's head of engineering, Alan Noble. Now he's heading to the UK to poach senior engineers from Australia's ex-pat community.
The Australian public service is striking back at the skills crisis by training its own IT workers in a new AU$15 million, four-year apprenticeship program.
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Although the number of mobile workers is supposed to reach one billion by 2011, some workers will always be confined to the office environment, according to analyst firm IBRS.
December 2007 capped off a bumper year, with Internet-based IT job ads growing by five percent on 2006 figures.
Potential IT students could receive a boost this Christmas with the news the Australian Computer Society (ACS) Foundation has announced AU$300,000 in IT scholarships yesterday -- but next year, the figure could rise to AU$500,000, ACS claims.
Peoplebank Australia Ltd has set its sights on becoming Australia's largest information technology recruiter with the acquisition of fellow recruiter Ambit for AU$100 million.
Interpersonal skills are more important in the workplace than IT skills, according to the results of a survey commissioned by Microsoft.
Demand for IT skills continued to grow throughout November, bucking a general softening in employment growth as interest rates, and uncertainty surrounding the change of government begins to bite.
The possibility of social networking sites such as Facebook or LinkedIn leaking information or compromising employee productivity is causing companies to ban their use -- against the advice of analysts.
The University of Adelaide and the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) have signed a new strategic alliance agreement, providing more funding and career opportunities for the university and its students.
Westfield prefers a diet of "vanilla software" and in-house customisation to outsourcing its IT, the retail chain's director of IT, Peter Bourke, said at Gartner's Symposium yesterday.
The new wave of government CIOs is business and relationship focussed, with IT knowledge being pushed into the background, according to analyst firm Gartner.
NAB may send around 400 jobs overseas in a bid to improve operational efficiencies.
Google announced today the appointment of its new general manager for Google Australia and New Zealand, from the ranks of Fairfax Media.
The Australian Defence Force has launched a new recruitment campaign designed to remedy the tech skills shortage in the services by enlisting a specialist firm to find new apprentices and qualified personnel.
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