Seek CIO resigns
Recruitment company Seek (ASX:SEK) has confirmed the impending resignation of its CIO, Carey Eaton, effective mid July of this year.
Recruitment company Seek (ASX:SEK) has confirmed the impending resignation of its CIO, Carey Eaton, effective mid July of this year.
Australia’s IT industry has experienced a number of salary increases this year, despite slower than usual hiring activity over the December-January period caused by major issues including the floods in Victoria and Queensland and Cyclone Yasi, according to recruitment firm Peoplebank.
Telecommunications incumbent Telstra (ASX: TLS) has refuted a report that up to 1200 back office jobs will be outsourced overseas as part of a restructuring proposal carried out under it renewal initiative, Project New.
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Australia’s IT jobs market has experienced a number of peaks and troughs in the last few months, however according to recruitment firm, Randstad, there will be strong demand for certain skills in the coming year.
The IT jobs market has significantly slumped over the holiday period, falling further than the wider jobs market, which itself experienced the largest fall in job ads in 18 months, according to recruitment firm, Advantage Professional.
The strong Aussie dollar combined with rising job numbers and an emerging skills shortage is placing pressure on IT managers to increase employee salaries, according to one recruitment firm.
Australian software development company, Atlassian, has announced it will invest $10 million in the creation of ICT jobs in Sydney in 2010-11.
The NBN Co has dramatically ramped up its hiring activity, posting an average of three new roles a day on its job vacancy site as its rollout of the National Broadband Network (NBN) ramps up.
SAP Australia and tertiary education institution, the Holmesglen Institute, have begun offering a new degree, the Bachelor of Information Technology, aimed at turning out more graduates with dedicated enterprise-focused IT skills.
Telstra has denied allegations up to 6000 staff will be made redundant or cut through natural attrition over the next three years, but remains unaware of the total number to be cut in the next financial year.
The Australian Computer Society (ACS) has released its annual overview of the Australian ICT market revealing that 15,000 more employees joined the ICT workforce during the past year.
IT managers have been advised by the head of a leading contractor management organisation to work more actively to meet the needs and welfare of independent IT contractors or risk losing staff.
Female ICT professionals must seek greater professional training and development if they are to ascend to senior management roles, according to one female ICT leader.