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The tech sector has enjoyed a 12 per cent increase in online job advertisements in the past six months as the recovery in Australia from the full effects of the global financial crisis sets in.

National technology recruiter, Finite IT, has weathered the economic firestorm remarkably well, with the company set to open its sixth office in Adelaide early in the New Year on the back of strong business growth over the past nine months.

The majority of Australian companies have faced the downturn in the economy without cutting IT budgets or IT staff, instead achieving most of their much-needed cost savings in key organisational areas such as administration and operations.

ICT recruitment and consultancy group, FiniteIT, expanded into Western Australia earlier this year and has found the local jobs market has bounced back even faster from the financial downturn than the company anticipated when its new Perth office was opened.

Seven students from across Australia have won a national, ACS Foundation-sponsored competition hosted on YouTube, after being asked to create a short video on “what information technology means to them”.

IT recruitment firm, Greythorn, has been recognised by job candidates as Australia’s 'favourite large IT recruiter' in the annual Seek Recruitment Awards (SARAs) for this year.

Entry level salaries for the ICT industry are up and employers are increasingly looking for staff who are multi-skilled, according to the latest survey of the market by Excom Education.

Job opportunities in Australia continued to surge during September with the number of job advertisements climbing more than 3.5 per cent, according to the latest Olivier Job Index numbers from recruitment firm Olivier Group.

Cognizant of a recent ACS survey which found that IT graduates in Australia were technically proficient but not ‘work-ready', Dimension Data has implemented a training program for new graduates which gives them professional technical training and hands-on industry experience at the same time, to better prepare them for going into the workforce.