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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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The federal government's pilot ICT apprentice scheme has exceeded its target of 40-60 recruits, inducting some 75 new staff at a ceremony in Canberra today.
School leavers are the face of the federal government's bid to arrest the current technology skills shortage via a new AU$4 million ICT apprenticeship program launched in Canberra.
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