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S'pore workers job-hunting, IT professionals in high demand
News Though Singapore's unemployment rates are near a four-year high, more workers are looking to change jobs while IT and financial companies find employees hard to come by, finds survey.
Tags: Recruiting, Personnel management, Business Strategies & Functions, Unemployment Rate, Worker, Employer, construction industry, Survey, Information Technology, Human Resources Inc.
Banyan Tree invests $1M in talent management
News Singapore hotels and resorts operator employs SAP in bid to better nurture and manage talent pool of over 10,000 staff, according to company executives.
Tags: Business development/management, Personnel management, Recruiting, Banyan Systems, Database, SAP AG, Talent Management, Human Resources Inc., Training, Bangkok
Google.org exec leaves to tackle urgent threats
News Dr. Larry Brilliant is leaving the search giant's nonprofit arm for the Skoll Urgent Threats Fund to tackle nuclear proliferation, water shortages, and other issues.
Tags: Human resources, Inconvenient Truth, Google Inc., Officer, University of Michigan, Al Gore, Global Warming, Middle East, exec, advisor
Indian tech tries to retain top workers
News Infosys, Wipro and others are trying to avoid layoffs by reassigning skilled workers to subsidiaries or asking them to accept reduced salaries.
Tags: Human resources, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Wipro Technologies, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Training, Bench, ERP, Sabbaticals, business intelligence, Worker
IBM: Computing rivaling human brain may be ready by 2019
News Leading scientist, working with colleagues from several top universities, has pioneered computational analysis that rivals that of a cat's cortex. Human brain could be just a decade away.
Tags: Supercomputing, Multiprocessor servers, Brain, IBM Corp., Nanotechnology, Computing, Computer, DARPA, financial system, financial
How to keep IT staff happy during downturn
Insight perspective In tough economic times, businesses must do more with fewer people. An industry expert offers some advice on how to make this happen.
Tags: Personnel management, HR policies and procedures, Leadership, Staff, Tool, Environment, CIO, performance, Process Management, career
Microsoft backtracks on severance issue
News Redmond says laid-off workers who were accidentally paid too much will be able to keep the excess.
Tags: Benefits, Layoffs, Microsoft Corp., software company, Worker, software, Human Resources, CNET Networks Inc., accounting, CNET News
More contract IT jobs expected in S'pore
News To overcome headcount restrictions, many roles traditionally offered as permanent jobs will be converted into contract positions this year, new survey finds.
Tags: Human resources, Career, Outsourcing, Survey, Singapore, business analysis, Human Resources, recession, job, network
Singapore companies prefer to save jobs
News For most, retrenchment is a last resort when all other cost-cutting efforts fail, say national union, employers' federation and HR grouping.
Tags: Human resources, Career, Singapore, entertainment, Worker, e-mail, Human Resources, job, hiring, firing
Microsoft cuts 800 more jobs
News The latest workers to have their jobs eliminated are being notified, in what Microsoft said completes personnel reductions announced earlier this year.
Tags: Layoffs, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Money, Microsoft Corp., job, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows Live OneCare, Small Business, layoff, Silicon Valley
Expats not necessarily first to go in recession
News When companies in Asia initiate retrenchment exercises, they consider salaries and skills first and not whether an employee is a foreign worker, say HR experts.
Tags: HR policies and procedures, Layoffs, Trends, Asia, Thailand, Singapore, e-mail, Human Resources, recession, job
Employers in Asia post fewer IT jobs
News Tech job advertisements in China, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore dropped during the last quarter of 2008 with decline sharpest in Hong Kong, finds new job index.
Tags: Recruiting, Career, Asia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Advertisement, Japan, job posting, job, audit
The world is flat. So what's our problem?
News commentary Budgets are tight everywhere but take a lesson from one Indian outsource giant, where employee education and retraining remains a corporate priority.
Tags: HR policies and procedures, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Outsourcing, India, Workforce, Nilekani, job posting, co-founder, New York Times Co., America
Apple's Steve Jobs back at work
News The company's chief executive has officially returned from a six-month medical leave of absence.
Tags: Personnel management, Investments, Apple Inc., Bloomberg L.P., Absence, Cupertino, CEO, Tennessee, senior vice president, Apple iPhone
Broader skill sets way to retrain
News Economic downturn demands more from job roles, so companies will do well to train staff for more general IT skills, say corporate HR heads.
Tags: Trends, Personal development, Personnel management, HR policies and procedures, Citrix Systems Inc., India, Training, Workforce, Hyderabad, Environment
