Career Path
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Firms can ease staff anxiety in downturn
News Employers should play role in helping to alleviate stress level of their workers, as fears over job cuts loom at back of employees' minds in current economic climate.
Tags: Conflict resolution, HR policies and procedures, Layoffs, Career, Staff, Training, IT Professional, Singapore, information technology worker, Conflict resolution
Software for the other five billion
Insight perspective If businesses want to win over the five billion people without computers, they must adapt their approach. Here are seven assumptions not to make.
Tags: Business applications, Protocols and platforms, Personal applications, Microsoft Corp., Graphics, Quocirca, distributed system, Literacy, Clive Longbottom, software
The Sun that shines under IT
Insight Sun Microsystems CIO Bob Worrall counts down to the first phase of its new ERP project and shares what he believes the IT organization of the future will look like.
Tags: IT Management, Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
IBM urges service innovation
News A report challenges private and public sectors to support more technological innovations for service systems such as transport, communications and healthcare.
Tags: Innovation, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), IBM Corp., Service Innovation, Report, Business Model, Innovation, University of Cambridge, BAE Systems Plc., career path
Indian tech grads bring parents to work
News Offshore software development outfit woos potential workers in India by courting their parents. Can "arranged careers" work?
Tags: Recruiting
KPMG boss joins S'pore start-up i-DNS.Net
News Michael Ng, a well-known figure in the local IT industry and ex-managing director of KPMG Consulting Asia Pacific-SAP Consulting, has joined Singapore start-up i-DNS.net International as its new CEO.
Map your career path with aboutHR.com
News More than just an e-recruitement Web site, aboutHR.com now offers a career assessment tool--Hire Success--to help IT professionals map their career path better, coupled with key indicators of their personal strengths and weaknesses.
Choose your next training course carefully
Insight Future career success can hinge on making wise decisions about what skills to add or polish. Here are some considerations you need to take into account when choosing which course of action fits your current and future needs.
Gentoo Linux founder to 'educate' Microsoft
News Software giant hires a key figure behind the popular Linux distribution to teach its in-house developers about open source.
Defining the complementary job roles of the CTO and CIO
Insight When the CTO role first arrived in the dot-com years, its lack of definition made it difficult to develop a successful CIO-CTO relationship. To help both chiefs with career success, here's a clear map of where each role starts and ends.
Using standards in IT security hiring
Insight How to identify job needs and put together accurate job descriptions through the use of standards.
The CTO role is not what it used to be
Insight The glory days of CTOs seem to be a thing of the past, with few CTO job openings and lower salaries becoming par for this career course. Nonetheless, for those that dream of CTO-hood, there are a few paths that could still lead to the top.
Asia seeks tech career guidance
Insight Tired of doing the same old job year after year, some IT professionals in Asia wonder about their career options and are keen on new experiences.
Members offer career tips to outsourced manager
Insight Members eagerly shared tips, insight, and real-life experiences when they read about one IT manager's job-role change from full-time to consulting. Here's some of what they had to say.
Lesson for IT managers: Why your staff walk
Insight In some companies, career path planning for employees is scheduled on a regular basis. Managers can make it a goal to discuss this important topic a few times a year with staff members.
