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UK on track to be global talent hotspot
News The UK will be one of the world's talent hotspots within the next five years thanks to the quality of its education system and an open labour market. The results of the Global Talent Index compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit and headhunter...
[September 27, 2007, 8:23]
Asian firms boost salaries to secure IT talent
News IT professionals in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong saw salary increases of up to 40 percent last year, as companies in those countries jostled for skilled IT talent, a new survey finds. Mark Ellwood, managing director of Robert Walters in...
[March 17, 2008, 8:06]
UK's programming talent show their wares
News David Burrows, Director of Education Skills for Microsoft UK, told Builder UK that competitions like the Imagine Cup were a great way to showcase young developer talent. Three students have won the top prize in the UK Imagine Cup, a programming...
[June 23, 2005, 15:35]
Gates: We're short of tech talent
Talkback Plenty of tech talent has moved on. You simply can't expect talent to stay in areas where most of that talent is ignored time and time again. What seems obvious is that those that drove away tech talent in the first place still think that they know...
[July 18, 2006, 22:46]
UK's brightest programming talent sought for BrainAcademy 2005
News Dr Paul Curzon, who is in charge of the competition, reassured Builder UK that unlike competitions to find pop stars of the future, looks aren't important: "We're looking for ability so it's all down to talent, but in a wider sense", said Curzon.
[May 16, 2005, 17:05]
Restricting IT talent borders on the ridiculous
Leader For all the native IT talent we have in this country, we have plenty of appetite for more - and heaven knows, we can use them. IT is a creation of the developed world. As with the first Industrial Revolution, it is a child of the peculiar mix of...
[July 13, 2005, 13:05]
Putting the Most Advanced IT Tools Into the Hands of Top-Notch Healthcare Talent
White Papers The Hospital deployed a fully-integrated, end-to-end Nortel solution to help deliver to its patients the highest quality, most advanced healthcare services available and, not coincidentally, to help attract the best talent in every field of...
[November 11, 2008, 23:00]
Applebee~s Automates Talent Management to Support Aggressive Company Growth
White Papers Applebee's Services, wanted to develop a talent management infrastructure to support the company's aggressive growth plan and provide greater visibility into employee information. The challenge was to eliminate manual processes to control costs as...
[July 1, 2008, 1:01]
London Olympics to develop local tech talent
News The project to deliver the technology behind the London 2012 Olympics will try to develop new talent from the region as part of the regeneration theme of the Olympic Games. Because it is a high-risk environment, the Olympics IT volunteers are...
[October 15, 2007, 14:30]
Gates: We're short of tech talent
Talkback The industry isn't short on talent. If anything, there is an overabundance of talent in the US and Canada. The problem is that employers want to pay local talent as little as they pay offshore firms, and it's just not enough to live on in the...
[July 19, 2005, 18:59]
Gates: We're short of tech talent
Talkback Gates: We're short of "cheap" tech talent" The heading should have been: It's just another cry for more H1x visas, or for more outsourcing. Do they (and Gates included) know the real reason why enrollment in computer related studies has been on the...
[July 19, 2005, 17:22]
Best of the Best: Acquiring Top Talent for Your Company
White Papers Finding, hiring, and keeping top talent is a challenge for any company. And finally, they share insight on how work environment, challenging projects that maximize employees' talents, and thoughtful, appreciative perks can help retain that top...
[July 31, 2009, 11:44]
Google grabs more Firefox talent
News Google is gobbling up talent from the Mozilla Foundation, creators of the insurgent open-source Web browser Firefox; the hires may feed into rumours that the search giant is quietly building an Internet Explorer-killer.
[January 28, 2005, 10:45]
Abbey Road looks for new talent online
News Abbey Road recording studios has turned to the Internet for new unsigned music talent, enabling Net-savvy music fans to choose their favourite band in an online successor to Popstars. For the competition it teamed up with PC manufacturer Hewlett...
[April 23, 2001, 8:39]
Talent still sought despite economic gloom
News The quest for talent goes on, despite the economic downturn and massive global layoffs. There is a rising unemployment rate," admitted Monster.com Asia Pacific chief executive Libby Christie, noting the huge numbers of layoffs in recent months.
[September 6, 2001, 10:14]
Gates: We're short of tech talent
Talkback So BIll says he short on tech talent. There's a lot of tech talent out there; but you won't see it if you wear blinders. Perhaps if his HR department would stop looking for exact matches to esoteric job requirements and start looking for near or...
[July 19, 2005, 16:08]
Lutheran Life Communities Adds the Human Touch to Talent Management and Modernizes Employee Appraisal System
White Papers Lutheran Life Communities struggled with managing employee appraisal and, overall talent management processes, using a paper-based system. Lutheran Life Communities delivers respected and extended care to hundreds of thousands of individuals.
[March 8, 2009, 23:00]
Outsourcing may create Indian talent shortage
News Not the political controversy, but whether India can produce enough talent to fill the huge demand for workers the trend has fuelled. What's on the mind of executives running the booming Indian IT firms kept busy by the shifting of work from the...
[August 1, 2003, 10:05]
Health Plan Provider Uses Halogen eSuccession to Manage Leadership Talent Pools
White Papers Halogen e-Succession, which follows the proven best-practice talent pool model, was selected as an integrated module to complement e-Appraisal. This gives the organization the ability to cultivate the necessary skills and competencies in high...
[March 8, 2009, 23:00]
Selecting the Right Deployment Option for Employee Performance and Talent Management Systems
White Papers This white paper is designed for organizations that are considering employee performance and talent management software either as a hosted service (On-Demand) or installed on their own premises (On-Premise).
[February 1, 2009, 0:00]
