News (47)

  • ACS wants ICT immigration tightened

    The Australian Computer Society has called for tighter monitoring of ICT immigrants to Australia and intake reductions in some areas to ensure local workers are not disadvantaged.

  • DIMIA mum over skilled migration

    The government has met with the Australian Computer Society to discuss the organisation's policy on skilled migration but declined to say if its recommendations would be accepted.

  • Skills gap may slug $496m Immigration IT revamp

    The Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) has revealed the latest round of upgrades to its AU$496 million Systems for People initiative will go live in April but analysts believe skills shortages may disrupt the project.

  • Govt visa plan falls short for tech skills shortage

    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.

  • Parties war on skills crisis as business suffers

    With many Australian companies now finding a lack of skilled staff holding back their business, Labor has accused the Coalition of doing little to tackle the skills crisis.

More News >

Blogs (2)

  • Read the blog post - Sheryle Moon

    Turning the tide on skilled immigration

    While we continue to talk about Australia's ICT skills shortage, more than 3,000 potential sponsorships are being blocked by impediments to the 457 visa scheme.

  • Read the blog post - Liam Tung

    Should security clearances be outsourced?

    Everything from cleaning to IT development work is outsourced by governments these days, but should security clearance processes, which dictate what access a person has to government information systems, be included in that bundle?

Features and Case Studies (18)

  • ICT skills shortage still a myth

    The Information Technology Contract and Recruitment Association believes Australia needs to hire more foreigners to fill the shortage in ICT skills. But there's no solid evidence to back up its claim.

  • Opportunity lost? Australia's skilled migrants

    ZDNet Australia investigates why Australia is missing out on the talents of a myriad of IT migrants, many of whom are forced into work significantly below their field of expertise in order to survive.

  • ACS: New backflip expert?

    The Olympics may be over but backflips and all forms of manoeuvring are still in abundance. This time, it's the Australian Computer Society on the main podium.

  • Succeeding in integration: Part three

    In this third instalment of our ongoing series, we take a look at four integration projects, the problems they faced, and how the organisations involved overcame them.

  • Recruiter: Australian IT workers neglected

    The only shortage that exists in Australia's ICT landscape is insufficient assistance for jobless workers, said leading technology recruitment agency VTR Consulting.

More Features and Case Studies >

Create an e-mail alert for "immigration"
ZDNet Australia Alerts is an e-mail alert service which provides personalised news, features and reviews to readers’ inbox on an hourly, daily and weekly basis.
Alert:
immigration


Frequency: *

Filter Tags

  1. Popularity: 11 acs
  2. Popularity: 2 american
  3. Popularity: 5 ato
  4. Popularity: 5 australian computer society
  5. Popularity: 2 australian customs service
  6. Popularity: 3 bill gibson
  7. Popularity: 3 business
  8. Popularity: 2 change program
  9. Popularity: 3 cio
  10. Popularity: 4 csc
  11. Popularity: 3 customs
  12. Popularity: 2 demand
  13. Popularity: 4 diac
  14. Popularity: 8 dimia
  15. Popularity: 4 eds
  16. Popularity: 3 employment
  17. Popularity: 2 fujitsu
  18. Popularity: 3 gartner
  19. Popularity: 8 government
  20. Popularity: 2 h-1b
  21. Popularity: 8 ibm
  22. Popularity: 8 ict
  23. Popularity: 5 it
  24. Popularity: 4 it jobs
  25. Popularity: 4 itcra
  26. Popularity: 2 job
  27. Popularity: 9 jobs
  28. Popularity: 6 mandla
  29. Popularity: 3 maslog-levis
  30. Popularity: 10 migration
  31. Popularity: 3 offshoring
  32. Popularity: 6 outsourcing
  33. Popularity: 3 policy
  34. Popularity: 3 recruiter
  35. Popularity: 9 recruitment
  36. Popularity: 8 shortage
  37. Popularity: 3 siebel
  38. Popularity: 3 skill
  39. Popularity: 2 skilled migrants
  40. Popularity: 17 skills
  41. Popularity: 6 skills shortage
  42. Popularity: 3 staff
  43. Popularity: 4 t&b
  44. Popularity: 2 tech
  45. Popularity: 3 training
  46. Popularity: 3 unisys
  47. Popularity: 2 us
  48. Popularity: 2 vanstone
  49. Popularity: 6 visa
  50. Popularity: 3 worker

Latest Videos

Sponsored content

Power Centre - Content from our premier sponsors

Blogs

  • Renai LeMay Australian Govt funds IT start-ups
    This week Australia's Federal Government announced it had allocated $3.6 million in funding to 57 local research projects so that they could be commercialised, with many of them being web or IT-related start-ups.
  • Array Google should come clean on datacentres
    It's nice that Google says it has put an effort into making its datacentres more energy efficient, but the search giant's pledges won't mean much until it discloses just how many of the beasties it's actually running.
  • Array US shows what OPEL could have been
    Sprint's WiMAX roll-out in Baltimore will prove the Australian government's decision to worm its way out of the Opel WiMAX contract was a short-sighted, and ultimately damaging, political stunt that has benefited nobody.
  • More blogs »

Back to top

Featured