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Employers Skill Survey: Case Study - Engineering
White Papers This study aims to build a deeper understanding of the changes taking place within the engineering sector, the factors that are dominant in those changes and the implications of those changes for skill requirements in the UK.
[May 20, 2005, 0:00]
Linux skills in short supply
News The one skill to stand out here is Linux -- it's the only one to have seen an increase in demand over the past 12 months. More than ten percent of businesses with skill shortages now require Linux developers.
[March 28, 2003, 10:45]
Building a Virtual Customer Service Representative
White Papers The Guide discusses how vCSR software segments the functionality necessary to integrate different media and systems into an e-commerce application that replicates the manifold layers of skill sets and subsets, based on specialized vertical...
[January 14, 2009, 1:38]
How to become the chief exec of the future
News The ability to manage and embrace change will be the most important skill for the future chief executive, according to a survey out on Tuesday. In a survey commissioned by Computer Sciences Corporation and OneSource Information Services, and...
[October 22, 2002, 13:26]
Techies less happy than hairdressers
News The University of Bath's Professor Michael Rose, who carried out the research, said the most important factor in job satisfaction is the managerial skill of creating a sense of involvement for employees.
[August 6, 2007, 16:58]
IT workers' spirits hit all-time low
News The fact that the skill sets being favoured now are the same as in recent years, according to Meta Group, indicates that enough is not being done to develop these abilities. The survey showed that skills in some areas, such as database management...
[June 10, 2004, 9:20]
IT recruitment crisis deepens
News Project management is also unchanged as the non-IT skill in shortest supply in the workplace, with leadership skills also proving difficult to locate, as in previous years. The ninth annual Skills Survey reveals employers are finding it...
[August 8, 2007, 15:54]
Are developers stealing code?
News You need to consider the skill and labour in design and coding which went into the specific bits of allegedly copied code," she said. The anonymous online survey of more than 3,000 developers found that almost 70 percent of respondents keep a...
[June 3, 2004, 10:55]
Microsoft's employment Vista
Leader For all the skill European governments have acquired at managing the figures, there's a significant hard core of unemployment across the Union. It helps to keep a certain level of scepticism when dealing with survey stories.
[September 18, 2006, 15:30]
Tech salaries edge up but stock options vanish
News The Gartner study also said companies found expertise in enterprise resource management software the most difficult skill to recruit. Information technology workers got a slight pay raise in 2003, but long-term employee incentives such as stock...
[July 10, 2003, 8:23]
Hiring isn't a 2003 CIO resolution
News In the past, internal skill sets sometimes dictated IT architecture decisions, he said. And he's apparently not alone: 86 percent of chief information officers in the US don't expect any staffing changes in the first quarter of the year, according...
[January 6, 2003, 12:22]
Pay rises shrinking for tech workers
News The bigger challenge facing hiring managers today is to effectively screen through resumes to uncover the most qualified workers, especially those with specific experience or some specialised skill sets.
[August 1, 2001, 12:46]
Australian IT execs suffering 'information fatigue'
News Exacerbating the senior managers' problems is the fact that Australia's skill base is "misaligned" with the requirements of the markets that it is trying to compete for in Asia and Europe. According to Brand, Australia has the right level of skill...
[March 24, 2003, 8:47]
Salary outlook remains grim
News Increases in base pay will be reserved for the most sought-after specialties where skill shortages still exist. Research firm Meta Group's survey of North American IT managers found that base salaries continued to rise by 5 percent on average and...
[November 7, 2003, 8:10]
SAP consultants stay top of the pay scales
News UK IT directors with SAP expertise can command salaries up to £90,000, as can IT directors with Oracle Financials, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Baan skill sets. The survey, of 2,000 organisations across Europe, may not be great news for employees but...
[November 26, 2003, 12:55]
Microsoft: Phishing losses greatly over-estimated
News Far from being a path to riches, phishing appears to be a low-skill, low-reward business," says the study. However, Gartner on Friday defended the methodology behind its figure, saying it had employed professional survey companies to undertake its...
[January 9, 2009, 16:15]
Is the IT job market rebounding?
News However, the industry is speaking and the gap numbers suggest that hiring managers are not finding the right skill sets on CVs. I thought it would be worthwhile to give a representative of the ITAA a chance to comment on the survey and respond to...
[August 9, 2002, 18:10]
IT vacancies fall but demand for some skills remains
News SQL was the most sought-after skill while C++, which was top of the list for the previous two years, fell to second place. Unix, which had been the second most desired skill in the previous two years, was the third most in demand skill in 2002.
[February 28, 2003, 14:08]
Security skills still most valuable to IT chiefs
News Three-quarters of IT managers rate security as the most important skill for IT professionals to have, according to a survey of more than 3,500 bosses by technology industry body CompTIA. "Safety first" is still the motto written in sweat above the...
[March 14, 2008, 8:35]
Women 'central' to saving UK tech industry
News A survey of chief information officers last year projected skill gaps in every area of IT by 2010, with the largest rift in business intelligence and business process improvement. The future of the UK's IT industry hangs on its ability to attract...
[April 16, 2008, 8:34]
