PeopleShorter-term contracts are accounting for the majority of contract jobs in the ICT industry, according to the latest survey of the market, with contracts of less than one year now more prevalent than they were just six months ago.
Jane Huxley, a.k.a. energiser bunny assumed the position of Managing Director for Australia and New Zealand for Pandora internet radio in December last year. Things are going so well down under that it wants more of her.
It may just be the lull before the next storm in the ICT jobs market, but one recruiter is reporting demand for ICT skills is up as the business year comes to the end of the first quarter for 2013, but while demand for some skills might be on the rise there's not much movement in the salary stakes for ICT professionals.
A newly published report on the ICT job market has suggested that employment in Australia’s IT industry appears to have bottomed-out, and hiring intentions are strengthening.
Australian IT managers surveyed by IT management software company SolarWinds say that finding the skills needed to exploit the opportunities provided by the NBN will be a major challenge.
Global open cloud platform vendor, Acquia, has strengthened its Australian team with four new appointments as it moves to enhance support for Acquia Cloud, its scalable hosting environment for Drupal deployments.
Workplaces for ICT workers are safer than ever, according to the Information Technology Contract and Recruitment Association (ITCRA) which has just completed the first year of its iSafe Program, which will now be expanded beyond the ICT sector to include the broader white collar professional market in response to client and industry demand.
The annual Kester award for Lifetime Achievement in IT Journalism was last night won by Merri Mack, IT journalist under many guises since 1985.
Hosting and Managed Service Provider, UltraServe, has appointed 15-year industry veteran, Michael Crocombe, as its new Channel Manager.
At the NBN board meeting yesterday Siobhan McKenna, a log time member of the board, was appointed as Chairman
