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It's not only about specialized recruitment agencies
Talkback A bigger problem I noticed in small companies, where recruitment process at first level is often managed by non-IT workers (e.g.a secretary looks at CV and invites only those, who suit the IT department's needs written on a sheet of a paper).
[September 27, 2007, 10:39]
IT recruitment crisis deepens
News Despite recruitment difficulties caused by the skills shortage, fewer survey respondents than last year feel driven to consider software as a service (SaaS) as a means of plugging the gap — just 23 percent said they have considered using SaaS...
[August 8, 2007, 15:54]
Dated recruitment hobbles UK IT growth
News It found IT firms not planning recruitment adequately, spending unnecessary amounts on finding staff and employing unsuitable candidates.percent of IT firms surveyed do not incorporate recruitment into their business plans, 55 percent have no idea...
[July 15, 1999, 10:43]
Offshore Recruitment Services Boost Recruitment Firepower for Top IT Services Firm
White Papers Nelson decided to explore the feasibility of supplementing its recruitment efforts using offshore recruiters. A division of $400M Nelson Family of Companies, Nelson Technology (Nelson) is an IT recruiting and contract staffing firm with eight...
[May 21, 2009, 1:19]
Scalable Recruitment Software Solution Significantly Reduces IT and Capital Costs
White Papers TriSys Business Software has been at the forefront of technology innovation in the recruitment industry since the early 1990s. The company designs and implements advanced recruitment software systems to help agencies perform IT-related tasks - from...
[February 27, 2009, 0:23]
IT jobs market fending off credit crunch
News The IT jobs market is resisting the pressures of the looming recession, with employment opportunities remaining stable, figures from a recruitment firm suggest. The number of IT-testing roles increased by 8.3 percent in the year's second quarter...
[August 8, 2008, 9:00]
IT salaries hit the floor, bounce back
News IT recruitment and salaries in the UK have hit the bottom and are expected to show signs of recovery towards the end of the year, according to a new survey. The 2003 salary survey from recruitment company Robert Walters is based on figures from the...
[May 22, 2003, 13:39]
IT contractors face tough times Down Under
News Justyn Griffin, a manager at recruitment consultancy Julia Ross IT, says many contractors have opted to go travelling, or are taking a break due to declining salaries. Felicity Loe, an account manager with recruitment consultancy IT&T Careers...
[February 1, 2002, 16:13]
Suit up or ship out?
News During the "dot-com revolution", a lot of IT recruitment consultants said a more laid-back environment was beneficial to staff morale, retention and productivity. ZDNet Australia asked Paul Rush, a global recruitment consultant, whether he was...
[October 29, 2002, 10:03]
Is new legislation protecting contractors?
News Historically, the relationship between IT contractors and recruitment agencies can probably be described as at best tense and at worst downright antagonistic. Ian Durrant, a director at the Professional Contractors Group (PCG), says his members...
[June 24, 2004, 12:45]
Job hunters seeking the cold, hard truth
News Australia's IT pros are on the lookout for recruitment consultants who tell it like it is when they're job hunting. One IT professional said every now and then a recruitment agency will stand out which is useful and honest.
[April 24, 2002, 11:28]
IT security: Have you checked out your staff?
News According to research conducted by recruitment outfit Elan, 79 percent of firms have increased their investment in IT protection over the last 12 months. But businesses are now just as security conscious when it comes to recruitment -- references...
[November 15, 2002, 15:02]
Oracle skills shortage spells jackpot for contractors
News If you have Oracle skills, 2008 could be something of a jackpot year, with contractors in short supply as demand ramps up over the next 12 months, IT recruitment company Technojobs has said. Oracle's success in growing its software business last...
[February 28, 2008, 8:29]
No IT skills shortage, just inadequate recruitment
Talkback As has been commented countless times before by myself and many others, there is plenty of native IT talent in this country, but the current ultra-low-cost no-humans-involved trend in IT recruitment practice is simply not matching people to jobs.
[September 12, 2008, 14:22]
Programmers: Coming out of the back room
News Jill Noble, account manager at local IT recruitment consultancy Icon Recruitment, sees programmers becoming more proficient at multitasking. Alex Knight, manager of the IT division of recruitment company Robert Walters, said it has also been...
[March 27, 2002, 10:16]
Few firms fear an IT skills gap
News The IT skills gap is no great shakes, although most firms could better their recruitment strategies, according to a recent survey from e-skills UK. Half of the employers surveyed said they had a recruitment plan for ICT staffing.
[June 6, 2005, 15:25]
Tech-job demand bucks economic trend
News According to a survey by KPMG and the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC), demand seen by recruitment consultants for permanent IT and computing jobs in December fell by around 34 percent month-on-month, compared to an average drop of...
[January 9, 2009, 9:36]
No future for tempjobs.com
News UK recruitment firm Reed Executive announced on Monday that it has decided to close www.tempjobs.com, after the company warned investors that profits for the last financial year had fallen by nearly a quarter.
[April 23, 2001, 16:02]
Narrow View
Talkback If the women you have worked with have been, no good, as you put it then maybe your problem has been poor recruitment practices rather than this being a general rule with women. If you work with good recruitment agencies and are more open minded...
[September 27, 2007, 16:46]
Taxation changes may hit IT sector
News Rates for IT contractors could be forced up by new Treasury taxation changes due to come into effect in April, recruitment bodies and accountants have warned. The consultation also proposes that when HM Revenue & Customs can't recover unpaid tax...
[January 19, 2007, 8:33]
