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Demand for IT jobs falls in UK
News The drop in vacancies for IT and computing staff is showing up in both permanent and temporary positions, according to a report from KPMG.
Tags: Human resources, Trends, Hewlett-Packard Co., accountant, Accenture Ltd., information technology worker, business service, job loss, KPMG Consulting Inc., job
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
Employers still grapple over IT pay, skills
News While employers now hold bargaining power, increase in skills pool and lower salaries relate more to tech workers with generic skills, say HR execs.
Tags: Trends, Compensation, Recruiting, HR policies and procedures, Candidate, Employer, Salary, Worker, e-mail, Human Resources
Mainframes fall short on technical skills
News Availability of IT professionals with mainframe capabilities is shrinking in Asia, despite ongoing need for such expertise, say market observers.
Tags: Mainframes, Recruiting, Trends, Mainframe, Computer Associates International Inc., IBM Corp., GUI, Asia, India, IT Professional
Trend Micro launches new security tracking tool
News New product provides IT administrators with detailed information about who on the network is doing what, when and from where.
Tags: Business applications, PC security, Data security, Malware, Security, Site, Trend Micro Inc., Tool, social networking, e-mail
E-reader trend needs common standards
News More players eye piece of e-reader market, but consumers benefit only if readers are built to support one common standard, say industry players.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Standards, E-book, Spokesperson, Standards, Korea, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., digital-rights management, public domain, Notebooks and tablets
Fewer IT jobs in Asia this quarter
News At least one-fifth of region's IT and telecoms firms--and as high as 43 percent in Hong Kong--are set to reduce their hiring activities, finds new Hudson survey.
Tags: Recruiting, Trends, Asia, Headcount, Hong Kong, Singapore, auto company, Japan, job, China
Cisco CEO sees positive economic trends
News John Chambers, head of the tech industry bellwether, says quarterly orders for networking gear followed normal trends, signifying the economy is likely improving.
Tags: Security, Business security, Quarter, Cisco Systems Inc., Sales, Connected Corp., CEO, Italy, U.S., analyst
Bangalore's brain drain
Insight perspective Bangalore has always been an IT powerhouse, but now returnees are adding their experience into the mix, says industry watcher.
Tags: Business applications, IT training, Trends, India, Immigrant, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Madan Moudgal, Trignon, St John, Saritha Rai
Oracle bucks economic trends; beats Q4 estimates
News Company earns US$2.3 billion on sales of US$6.9 billion, a 5 percent revenue drop, but still enough to beat Wall Street's estimates.
Tags: Financial, Software, software license, Sales, earnings per share, software license revenue, Sun Microsystems Inc., Software, Wall Street, net income
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
Indian outsourcing trainees feel heat of recession
Insight perspective Outsourcers such as Infosys are packing graduates off to training centers, using education to maintain their edge in challenging economic times.
Tags: Outsourcing, IT training, Personal development, Trends, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Employee, Outsourcing, India, Electronics, Training
Five reasons to hire open source developers
Techguide Afraid an open source developer will be a liability to your organization? TechRepublic's Jack Wallen offers some reasons to think otherwise.
Tags: Open source, Protocols and platforms, Human resources, Trends, Apache Software Foundation, Open-source Developer, Apache Web server, Open-source Community, Microsoft Windows, proprietary software
CIOs 'out of the loop', survey finds
News Confusion reigns over exactly what the executive is supposed to do in a company, according to a survey by Deloitte and the Cranfield School of Management.
Tags: Organizational structure, Professional Development, Trends, Role, Survey, CIO, performance, Deloitte LLP, information technology, analyst
Drunk Facebook photos killing your job prospects?
News A U.K. survey finds one-third of hiring heads trough the Web and social networking sites to gather background and behavior information on potential recruits and existing employees.
Tags: Recruiting, Web sites, Web 2.0, Resume, Trends, Survey, job interview, Resume, social networking, Facebook
