Recruitment technology and social media have played a significant role in growing business in the recruitment industry, according to a newly published market survey, but while North American recruitment firms are heavily into using social media for sourcing candidates, it seems that those in Asia Pacific countries, including Australia, are lagging behind their North American counterparts.

Recruitment technology and social media have played a significant role in growing business in the recruitment industry, according to a newly published market survey, but while North American recruitment firms are heavily into using social media for sourcing candidates, it seems that those in Asia Pacific countries, including Australia, are lagging behind their North American counterparts.

Global integrated ICT solutions and services vendor, Logicalis, has appointed a new strategic solutions director for its Australian operation, based in Melbourne, with responsibility for the evolution and transformation of the company’s product portfolio in line with the needs of its customers.

Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson has handed in his resignation after further evidence emerged that he deliberately misstated his academic credentials, according to a News Limited report. Thompson, who was the president of eBay before his current role at the troubled Internet giant, could face termination without any severance pay because his bio wrongly stated that he has a computer science degree.

The Seek Jobs app for iPhone claims to deliver more jobs than any other app.

Gen-i, the systems integration business of Telecom NZ, plans to expand its Australian workforce by 30%

The ICT sector has become an employers' market as the number of job candidates for each role rises, and the demand for permanent employees collapses as CIOs select contractors to plug holes.

Twitter is well behind LinkedIn as the preferred social media network used by recruiters to reach job seekers but, as a global report on the market has found, Twitter followers are three times more likely to apply for a job than a LinkedIn connection.

IT recruitment firm Ambition Technology is looking for IT professionals who are interested in moving out of selling or managing IT and into IT recruitment. But first candidates have to make the grade.

The IT industry remains doggedly optimistic - with most IT companies planning to maintain or increase headcount over the next three months. According to Hudson ICT it may signal even more of an end-user move to outsourcing and cloud computing.

A significant percentage of Australian employers have plans to decrease their permanent IT staff numbers in 2012, while a clear majority plan to either maintain or increase contractor numbers, according to the findings of a new survey.

Award-winning national technology recruitment firm, Finite IT, has followed up the launch of its new website with the launch of its mobile service for job candidates.

The UK headquartered IT recruitment business Harvey Nash has set up shop in Australia with a team of four people, offering executive search, technology recruitment, and a conduit to the company's Vietnam based software development centre for organisations looking to offshore IT work.

By the end of last year Australia had around 700 too many ICT managers, and 2,700 too few ICT professionals. It's the classic case of too many chiefs and not enough Indians.

At a time when banks are shedding IT roles by the dozen, it seems counter-intuitive that 83 per cent of the nation's chief information officers should report they are confident about the future of their business to the extent that 45 per cent expect to hire IT staff in the first six months of the year. The question remains - is this a dead cat bounce?

The Information Technology Contract and Recruitment Association (ITCRA) has warned of a contraction in Australia's ICT job market in the next 12 months, after a slowdown in employment towards the end of last year.

Specialist IT recruiter, Finite IT Recruitment Solutions, has stormed ahead with business growth over 2010-2011, particularly in the government sector, writing contracts across all if its business segments to the tune of $50.6 million and ensuring a third placed ranking in the recruitment sector this year, according to a labour hire report just released.

Listed recruitment firm Clarius Group has issued a warning to the Australian Stock Exchange that its net profit after tax for the six months to the end of 2011 will fall in the range $1.2-1.4 million, well down on the previous comparable period profit of $2.4 million. The sharemarket didn't like the news one iota.

IT hiring managers are cautiously optimistic about the year ahead with many of them expecting to take on new staff over the next 12 months, with the intention to hire more likely with medium sized companies less reliant on cost restraint due to the global economic uncertainty.

The employment statistics for the class of 2010 graduates are out, and computer science graduates didn't fare particularly well.