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• What makes a successful IT manager?

  To succeed as an IT manager, and to advance your career, you need some very specific traits--11 to be exact. Here are the skills you need to be at the top of your game.

• Saving your life in bits and bytes

  "Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanised private file and library," wrote information technology visionary Vannevar Bush in the July 1945 issue of the Atlantic Monthly.

• A little paranoia could save your career

  Paranoia can be a good thing for career survival. When rumours start to fly about layoffs, it's a sign to take stock, keep your head down, prepare for the worst, and hope for the best.

• Soft skills count in job hunt

  Business experience, rather than just technical skills, holds sway for IT professionals on the job hunt, according to an IT career advisory.

• IT employers look for business skills

  Firms are hiring more business-aware staff as an alternative to taking on computer science graduates, according to a new report.

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  Closing the skills gap

  Until this month, we had no uniform-approach ICT curricula in higher education institutions, and no formal link connecting these institutions with industry.

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  2Vouch refers well

  Melbourne-based Web start-up 2Vouch yesterday launched the first public beta of what it dubs its "social recruiting platform".

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  Services the secret to our future

  Today, we exist in an economy where the services sector is the economy.

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  Skills in short supply

  My interview with the government's ICT skills and professional development taskforce last week shed new light on what exactly is missing in the industry's skills shortage.

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  Coming to you fast and furious from the FITT lunch

  The more I think about the issues surrounding the under-representation of women in IT, the further I get from finding a solution. Overanalysis is a real drag. And that's why this year I'm going to be blogging direct from the FITT lunch.

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• Career regrets? IT pros have more than a few

  As these IT managers' stories illustrate, career regrets can encompass missed opportunities, bad decisions, and sticky situations. What are the career lessons worth learning?

• Successful job hunts combine old and new techniques

  When your job search stalls, revitalise it by adding some less traditional approaches to the standard routine. Learn how to combine strategies to create a full-blown plan for getting the attention of potential employers and landing the perfect position.

• What makes a successful IT manager?

  To succeed as an IT manager, and to advance your career, you need some very specific traits--11 to be exact. Here are the skills you need to be at the top of your game.

• Saving your life in bits and bytes

  "Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanised private file and library," wrote information technology visionary Vannevar Bush in the July 1945 issue of the Atlantic Monthly.

• How to get on the CIO career track

  Making the move into executive IT management first requires some serious evaluation of the pros and cons of such a move. How do you choose the right type of employer?

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• People are the problem: 3 HR management packages tested

  Does your company's human resource management functions need to be automated? We look at what you need to consider, and three packages to help you do it.

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