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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
Financial techies bank on jobs in Asia
News Information technology professionals from downsized banks in Europe and the United States, find new jobs in the finance hubs of Asia.
Tags: Trends, Personal development, Banking, Asia, phone, financial, job, financial service, bank, information technology
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
Recession need not mean unemployment
News Some IT jobs in the Asia-Pacific region are more recession-proof than others, as are jobs with reputable employers, say HR experts.
Tags: Human resources, Trends, Business, IT Professional, Sales, e-mail, recession, financial, job, China
Future is in tech-savvy hands of Gen Ys
News With organizations already shifting to a Generation Y workforce, employers will gain if they understand and cater to the needs of these younger workers now.
Tags: Personal development, Trends, Web 2.0, Human resources, SMB, Generation Y, India, social networking, Facebook, Human Resources
'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, Social Networking, Business security, U.S., job, Network security, International Data Corp.
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
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
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
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
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, auto company, Singapore, Japan, job, China
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
Hong Kong hiring expectations 7-year low
News Only 20 percent of technology firms in the territory plan to grow headcount this quarter, down from 34 percent in last quarter, Hudson survey shows.
Tags: Compensation, Trends, Human resources, Recruiting, Business, Quarter, Asia, Headcount, Hong Kong, human resource agency
Layoffs loom for M'sian electronics sector
News One of the pillars of Malaysia's economy, its electronic and electrical sector has become a double-edged sword during the current global slowdown.
Tags: Sales/revenue, Layoffs, Business planning, Trends, Intel Corp., Western Digital Corp., Electronics, Manufacturing, Chip Company, Electronics Sector
