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Outsourcing may doom future IT careers
News The rampant outsourcing of IT jobs could sound the death knell for Australia's technology industry, an IT Manager Australia survey has revealed. ITM members were asked if students in Australia would be discouraged from considering IT as a career if...
[July 9, 2003, 10:36]
Most techies would recommend IT career to offspring
News Three quarters of IT professionals would recommend an IT career to their children, a survey by careers website The IT Job Board has found. Bucking the current, gloomy economic outlook caused by the sub-prime lending crisis in the US, the majority...
[May 14, 2008, 12:33]
Monster.com thinks again on CV purge
News Monster.com, the popular careers Web site, has partially backed away from a decision to limit which nations could be listed on CVs and job postings. Millions of job seekers from all over the world use Monster to advance their careers and their...
[April 28, 2003, 8:18]
Is IT a good career choice?
Talkback Greg I read your article from August 3 about IT careers and I would like to tell you that IT careers are alive and well in the heartland. Four years ago I got the job of training IT students at MIT (Murray In Tishomingo), we have never looked back.
[August 8, 2005, 14:50]
Still going...
Talkback It's nearly two years later, and analytics and related information-based careers, especially those that generate concrete measurable results, are continuing to evolve and grow. As an aside, our firm continues to hire analysts and welcome...
[August 5, 2009, 14:40]
IT specialists trail in happiness stakes
Talkback "I believe it is more fair to compare IT careers to other professional careers like accounting, medicine or law. What? Sure you worked hard to get your education, but don't overestimate your importance.
[March 22, 2004, 3:00]
Senior execs turn to social networks for job hunting
News Professional social-networking sites such as LinkedIn and Plaxo are becoming an increasingly popular tool for senior executives wanting to progress their careers and find out about job opportunities. Harvey Nash director, Carol Rosati, said there...
[August 1, 2008, 9:50]
"Wireless Home" Project Heralds Exciting Career Prospects for Women of Dubai
White Papers Cisco makes a conscious effort to help Middle Eastern women, as well as men, to build IT careers, for example by finding them internships. Initiatives like this one can certainly get young women enthused about IT training and careers.
[May 1, 2007, 14:19]
E-envoy chases the girls
News In an attempt to inject some glamour into IT, the government launched a series of initiatives Thursday aimed at bridging the skills gap and attracting more women to high tech careers. The initiatives -- announced by Allan -- include a campaign to...
[June 30, 2000, 11:03]
A Year Ago: E-envoy chases the girls
News In an attempt to inject some glamour into IT, the government launched a series of initiatives Thursday aimed at bridging the skills gap and attracting more women to high tech careers. The initiatives -- announced by Allan -- include a campaign to...
[July 1, 2001, 6:28]
E-skills aims to boost IT degree numbers
News The "Revitalise IT" scheme will aim "to transform the attitudes of young people to IT-related education and careers, and support universities in developing and promoting courses that reflect the needs of IT professional careers," according to an e...
[September 18, 2007, 18:57]
IT sheds 'geek' image in search of youth appeal
News E-skills UK has today launched a programme to interest more young people in pursuing careers in IT. Go for IT Schools' Workshops' have been developed by e-skills UK and the careers service with the intention of changing the way secondary school...
[September 5, 2002, 9:56]
IT specialists trail in happiness stakes
Talkback I believe it is more fair to compare IT careers to other professional careers like accounting, medicine or law. Comparing IT professionals to hair dressers is like comparing apples to oranges. The people who go into the IT field have much different...
[March 21, 2004, 14:11]
Banks held back by legacy systems
News Some of the few replacement projects that have gone ahead have ended in failure, said the analyst — damaging the careers of the IT leaders put in charge of them. McDowall acknowledged that chief information officers are wary of suggesting replacing...
[June 7, 2007, 9:36]
A Year Ago: Is the 'nerd' factor keeping women out of high-tech?
News Without more positive female role models, girls won't be motivated to seek out careers in high-tech, she said. As part of the Commerce Department's study of the technology labour shortage last year, the agency examined U.S.sixth-grade students...
[October 18, 1999, 7:00]
US Report: Is the 'nerd' factor keeping women out of high-tech?
News Without more positive female role models, girls won't be motivated to seek out careers in high-tech, she said. As part of the Commerce Department's study of the technology labour shortage last year, the agency examined U.S.sixth-grade students...
[October 20, 1998, 14:01]
Western economies warned of 'serious' skills crisis
News Young boys and young girls are not enjoying maths in school and they are not making careers in science and engineering. The students [there] are just not interested in maths and do not perform well in maths because they are not taught well — the...
[March 19, 2008, 7:56]
IT specialists trail in happiness stakes
News As our research proves, it's often people in vocational careers that are the most content and fulfilled. There is an increasing trend for people to swap careers to do something more hands on," said Humphries.
[March 19, 2004, 11:55]
Spam Kings review
Reviews To this end, he follows in great detail the careers of Davis Wolfgang Hawke, who started his spamming career at 20 (after a brief stint running a neo-Nazi Web site) and Susan Gunn (a.k.a. The book brings in related stories, but primarily it hops...
[February 28, 2005, 10:55]
Record rise in overseas IT workers
News According to Swain, the UK's dependence on foreign IT skills is likely to increase if the number of IT graduates choosing technology careers continues to fall. While Indian mathematicians and computer scientists can earn a lot of money in IT here...
[November 21, 2005, 15:30]
