Create alert3087 results for "Trends"
S'pore schools gear for future IT workforce
News With increased industry demand for cross-discipline talent, universities prep students for "real world" via interdisciplinary education, with lessons going beyond classroom.
Tags: Trends, Personal development, Student, NTU, Training, Workforce, Information Technology, network, Spokesperson, job
Firms seek tech pros to optimize resources
News Firms looking for employees who can help improve business and optimize performance, finds new survey, which forecasts little or no increase in pay for sector.
Tags: Career, Compensation, Trends, data access, security auditing, Increase, Security, IT Professional, Information Technology, job
IT jobs outlook brighter in 2010
News Job outlook for new year improves, but job seekers need to be flexible with offers and view them as development, say human resource executives.
Tags: Recruiting, Communication skills, Trends, Social Networking, Candidate, Robert Walters, Training, Information Technology, network, Human Resources Inc.
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., Accenture Ltd., information technology worker, accountant, business service, job loss, KPMG Consulting Inc., job
'Not all jobs created equal' for social sites
News Nature of business and sensitivity of corporate data key in deciding whether to block social networking sites at work, say industry watchers.
Tags: Network security, Security Management, Security, Business security, Trends, Social Networking, International Data Corp., Business security, U.S., Tool
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
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, Hong Kong, Singapore, Headcount, 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
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
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, Sun Microsystems Inc., Software, Wall Street, software license revenue, net income
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, Spokesperson, E-book, Standards, Korea, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., digital-rights management, public domain, Notebooks and tablets
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
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
More Asian vendors tap e-reader trend
News update Korean giant LG digs into e-paper display business, while Lenovo's maiden e-book device is currently undergoing internal tests, according to various reports.
Tags: Components, Consumer Technology, Development/design, E-paper, Manufacturing, e-reader, E-book Reader, Amazon.com Inc., E-book, NetEase Inc.
