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    Employers may need to adjust their recruitment strategies to attract staff in areas of high-demand, according to a leading recruiter.

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    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.

  • Youth Hub hones in on IT talent

    The IT Skills Hub is forming a Youth Hub committee to act as the mouthpiece of the youth market and help to attract the next generation of IT professionals.

  • JobWatch: Soft-skills win out in conflicting markets

    After months in the doldrums, internet IT job ads took an upward turn in May, growing by 1.6 per cent, a whisker ahead of the overall internet job ads.

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    Hi tech companies are giving away gear to educational facilities by the truckload in what they claim is an initiative to combat the IT skills shortage. Is this a case of industry support or "cash for comment"?

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    No skyrocketing salaries, despite skills squeeze

    ICT salaries are rising, but they are certainly not skyrocketing.

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    The Aussie dollar and ICT

    With the Australian Dollar breaking the 92 US cents barrier recently, and predictions it could reach parity with the US Dollar by Christmas, there's good news and bad news for the ICT industry.

  • Read the blog post - Sheryle Moon

    Why IT geeks are chic

    These days, you're just as likely to see high-technology surfboard designers wearing board shorts to work as Star Trek T-shirts.

  • Read the blog post - Sheryle Moon

    Male-dominated workforce costs AU $47bn a year

    Restricting women's job opportunities costs the Asia Pacific region up to $47 billion each year.

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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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    In this Super Techies interview, tech star Marc Benioff talks with CNET's Dan Farber about his career as a business entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. Benioff discusses his early work as a programmer for Apple; honing his sales and marketing skills with industry mogul Larry Ellison at Oracle; and his current...

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    Australia will continue to lose IT inventions and skills to foreign interests because the government has failed to invest in education, says Gartner's government specialist, John Kost.

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    They can print, copy, scan, and fax but can they open tins? We put multifunction devices to the test and find out.

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    Secrecy seems to shroud the data centre arena -- all well and good for security's sake, but not so great when trying to pick a provider. We pull back the curtains to find what data centre options exist in Australia.

  • What's next for wireless

    The frequency is changing from wired working to a wireless world. Can this new wave of technology help you gain the cutting edge?

  • McAfee VirusScan Home 9.0

    Improved customer support and spyware detection once again make McAfee VirusScan a contender, but new users should opt for a combined antivirus and firewall package instead.

  • Corel WordPerfect Office 12.0

    WordPerfect 12.0 features a core stable of productivity apps but suffers from its poor handling of Microsoft files.

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