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USA: Stingy employers are kidding themselves
By: Lia Timson

American workers are being forced to buy their own mobile phones, PDAs and laptops because their employers feel there’s an unmeasurable amount of personal benefit in the use of such electronic gadgets.


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Bosses use technology to hound timid employees: survey
By: Stan Beer

Technology has become a curse for many employees who wish to leave their work behind when they go home, according to a new survey. The problem appears to be that bosses now have so many options to contact their staff outside working hours and workers are afraid to say rack off.


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IT bonanza: salaries and offers to rise further in 2009
By: Lia Timson

IT workers are expected to reap up to 15% higher salaries next year on top of record increases already granted in the last 12 months, according to a new survey.


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USA: Jobs, jobs, jobs and too few candidates to fill them
By: Lia Timson

“Google Pittsburgh is looking for engineers with great aspirations”, says the advertisement. While only talented software developers and visionary computer scientists anxious to work on the next big thing in the new office need apply, the lack of suitable candidates may be an issue.


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Recruitment sites, the new malware playground
By: Lia Timson

Recruitment sites are in the firing line of spammers and identity thieves, with a new attempt to compromise employers’ systems intercepted last week.


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Finally surveys agree: IT&T jobs on the rise - but how much?
By: Stan Beer

After three months of disparate findings, the two most widely used IT jobs indicators in Australia are finally in agreement - jobs are on the rise. However, there is significant disagreement over the level of growth.


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Forbes says 3G iPhone talk time “terrible”
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Forbes magazine has quoted an unnamed Quanta employee saying the ‘new iPhone’ is in one of their US buildings, and that it’s cool. But that's all he'd say, and no-one else would talk!


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Crisis, what crisis? IT workers swimming in cash
By: Lia Timson

High interest rates and escalating fuel prices might be hurting some, but IT workers should be faring better than most. For the second time in as many weeks a national salary survey has pointed to IT as the lucky recipient of higher-than-inflation salary increases. Some prized jobs are even commanding 20% and 30% more money than a year ago.


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Tons of cash for IT workers yet job vacancies abound
By: Lia Timson

IT workers have experienced the highest salary increases and lowest turnover of all other jobs in the past year. However, technology vacancy rates still plague companies. Is the skills shortage real after all?


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ACS 'Professional Year' a ruse to suit recruiters?
By: Stephen Withers

I sometimes wonder whose interests the Australian Computer Society really serves. While it bills itself as "the recognised professional association for those working in Information and Communications Technology" some of its activities seem of more benefit to employers and recruiters.


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What do women want? An OFF button!
By: Lia Timson

IT&T women have spoken. They love their jobs, want to stay in their fields and telecommute so they can manage work and family, but they need to separate work life from personal life to ensure they don’t go nuts.


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Creative IT people needed
By: Lia Timson

IT workers should consider the advertising industry as an employment avenue, while ad agencies should welcome them with open arms, says a specialist digital recruiter.


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Recruiters reports clash again over IT&T jobs market
By: Stan Beer

Two of Australia's leading monthly jobs market watchers, Olivier Group and Best People Solutions, are in sharp disagreement over the state of the IT&T jobs market. Olivier has the market on a downward slide while the latest data from Best shows the market is on the climb. Both recruiters are sticking to their guns, claiming their respective reports represent the correct state of play.


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Recruiter and Victoria University team to produce SAP postgraduates
By: Stan Beer

IT recruiter, Diversiti, has partnered with Victoria University to create a program aimed at generating a pipeline of SAP postgraduate talent for Australian organisations. Demand for industry-ready candidates, who specialise in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and, in particular, SAP, is escalating and there is a lack of talent emerging from tertiary studies around Australia.


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More women, more flexibility needed in IT
By: Lia Timson

Women are an untapped, under-utilised and significantly overlooked source of IT talent, as they are in the wider workplace. That’s the conclusion of analysis of a recent study into workplace productivity.


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IT&T jobs still on a downhill slide
By: Stan Beer

High interest rates are putting the damper on jobs in the Australian IT and Telecoms sectors according to a new survey. April once again saw a significant fall in IT&T job ads, continuing a downward trend set in the previous two months.


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Workers find attraction in data centres
By: Lia Timson

Australian companies are finally heeding the advice of IT vendors and implementing data recovery plans, pushing up demand for data centres and technical staff.


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NCR appoints new MD South Pacific
By: Stan Beer

NCR has appointed Ross Checkley as managing director, South Pacific Area, which encompasses Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.


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