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Indian CIOs Face Skills Shortage
News Indian chief information officers must consider offshoring as the country is hit by an IT skills shortage. As businesses demand more from their IT departments, Indian chief information officers need increasingly to offshore IT roles to manage the...
[June 12, 2007, 9:26]
Tackle Skills Shortage, Urges Government CIO
News The government's chief information officer has called for the IT profession to present a united front to combat a growing IT skills shortage. The technology industry needs an influx of over 150,000 people per annum, according to e-skills UK and...
[May 18, 2007, 11:55]
Microsoft Warns Of 'acute' UK Skills Shortage
Talkback The dwindling number of IT graduates in the UK should act as a wake-up call for companies to take action to educate their current employees before declaring a "skills shortage". As such, it is not surprising that there has been much speculation...
[July 12, 2006, 16:37]
Microsoft Warns Of 'acute' UK Skills Shortage
Talkback Is there an apparent shortage of any *particular* IT skills, seeing as this study was sponsored by Microsoft? I can't help but wonder if perhaps they didn't look at the whole picture, but only concerned themselves with proprietary MS technologies.
[July 5, 2006, 19:10]
Microsoft Warns Of 'acute' UK Skills Shortage
Talkback If there is a skills shortage, why is the rate of employment of IT graduates so low in comparison to other disciplines? It took me 2 years of dogged effort to get an IT position. IMHO the problem is with employer's unrealistic expectations.
[July 11, 2006, 9:55]
A Year Ago: UK Could Face Net Skills Shortage
News A new report ranks the UK's Internet economy first among European countries, but warns continuing growth may lead to a widespread dot-com skills shortage here. Eighty-eight percent of interviewees said they were already having difficulties finding...
[June 10, 2001, 6:28]
Oracle Skills Shortage Spells Jackpot For Contractors
News Continued investment in corporate and public-sector strategy ERP projects — as well as the general IT skills shortage — means demand for Oracle skills is likely to rise this year, said Technojobs. If you have Oracle skills, 2008 could be something...
[February 28, 2008, 8:29]
UK Sees Worst IT Skills Shortage For A Decade
News The UK's IT sector is suffering its worst shortage of skills for a decade, according to new figures. The report warns employers to budget for increased training, with 73 percent of those who said there was a need for new skills planning to get hold...
[February 12, 2008, 8:16]
UK Could Face Net Skills Shortage
News A new report ranks the UK's Internet economy first among European countries, but warns continuing growth may lead to a widespread dot-com skills shortage here. Eighty-eight percent of interviewees said they were already having difficulties finding...
[June 9, 2000, 16:32]
The Networking Skills Shortage - How Women Can Narrow The Gap
White Papers Over the past few years, IDC has analyzed the extent of the IT skills shortage in Western Europe. This new study shows that one way of addressing this shortage is to encourage more women to enter, and remain in IT professions, including Internet...
[May 24, 2004, 0:00]
News Burst: UK Could Face Net Skills Shortage
News A new report ranks the UK's Internet economy first among European countries, but warns continuing growth may lead to a widespread dot-com skills shortage here. A report from the giant Anderson Consulting group suggests that the Internet will create...
[June 9, 2000, 12:11]
Information And Communication Technologies (ICT): Addressing The ICT Skills Shortage In Europe
White Papers This paper discusses how the Careerspace Consortium is helping tackle the ICT skills shortage in Europe. In this context, the emergence of the knowledge economy is causing a structural change in skills requirements toward Information and...
[November 15, 2004, 23:00]
Highways Agency Hit By .Net Skills Shortage
News This skills shortage highlighted by The Highways Agency could threaten businesses across the country. Project managers are also in short supply, according to Plumpton, who also blames lack of in-house opportunities and under investment for the...
[November 3, 2005, 14:50]
Immigration Can Cure Skills Shortage, Says SAS Chief
News In the long term Goodnight believes the UK and US must encourage more students to achieve skills in science and maths to address the growing skills shortage. In the US we are not producing enough skills in science and maths and yet we're not...
[July 3, 2006, 14:55]
KPMG Warns Of Compliance Skills Shortage
News UK businesses are struggling to meet compliance regulations because of a skills shortage. In the UK the biggest problem is a skills shortage," said Mulholland. But because of the skills shortage, they are struggling to deliver on Basel II.
[October 14, 2004, 14:30]
IT Skills Shortage Costing Europe 'billions'
News The European Commission is warning that 40 percent of European citizens suffer from "digital illiteracy" and the skills shortage is slowing down the implementation of new projects. The Commission has called upon member states to tackle the...
[September 12, 2007, 8:32]
UK Tech Week: Intervention Needed For Skills Shortage
News Temple dismissed the validity of recent surveys on the skills shortage, claiming it was hard to get accurate statistics on the issue: "The picture may be a little more complicated than is sometimes presented," he said.
[October 6, 1998, 16:49]
Microsoft Warns Of 'acute' UK Skills Shortage
News The UK is facing an acute and growing shortage of high-end software skill," said Matthew Bishop, senior director of Microsoft's Development Platform Group. A new report, commissioned by Microsoft and published on Wednesday, has warned that the UK...
[July 5, 2006, 17:20]
News Burst: IT Skills Shortage Getting Worse
News IDC predicts the internetworking area will experience the most acute skills shortage. Without a strategy for resolving the IT skills shortage, individual countries, and Europe as a whole, will begin to suffer at the expense of other countries and...
[October 19, 1999, 10:11]
Microsoft Admits .Net Skills Shortage
Talkback I doubt there is really a "skills shortage". But it seems pointless to retrain Java programmers to .net, because .net offers no real advantages over Java. Dot net is just an attempt by Microsoft to lock more people in to their proprietary technology.
[November 9, 2005, 20:00]
