Australian professionals are after promotion in their jobs to fulfil their major career ambition, but they also want to look at greener pastures abroad and they might not stay in their current job and, instead, make a holus bolus change to a new industry and an entirely different career.

Global specialist recruitment and HR service group, Randstad, has launched a new iPhone and Android app which the company says has been designed to make job hunting easier with local and global jobs accessible anywhere, at any time.

ICT consulting firm, DB Results has opened a new office in Victoria with a commitment to create 100 new jobs in Melbourne by 2015.

National IT recruitment firm, FiniteIT has grown steadily to record a solid result despite a slowdown in demand for technology jobs in the key markets of Sydney and Melbourne in the second half of the 2011 financial year.

The Victorian Government is going all out to entice young school leavers to embark upon a career in IT and Telecoms in Australia's ICT capital Melbourne, claiming a great future awaits them in a $29 billion local industry if they skill up in the right areas.

The ACS Foundation has developed a new web site (www.careersfoundation.com.au/schoolvisit) to enable secondary school teachers, careers advisors and schools to register their interest to get speakers from a variety of industries to visit them to talk to their students about different careers, particularly within the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) industry.

The battle of the sexes may have raged for centuries but is now over, at least when it comes to online networking.

Major technology recruiter Finite IT and its specialist executive recruitment division, FinXEC IT Executive Recruitment, has been appointed an Executive Search and Recruitment Services Panel member to the Australian Public Service Commission (APSC), effective from 1st June for an initial 2 year period.

The Australian ICT industry's three peak bodies have joined forces to bring their respective national awards under the banner of the well known iAwards program, created by the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) in 1995.

Finite IT, one of Australia's largest technology recruiters has reported strong results for its stable of contractors in the Federal Government during the March 2011 quarter, with both contract numbers and incoming payments on the rise.